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2018 ANNUAL REPORT SWISS TXT CORP. CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD SRG SSR Copyright: SWISS TXT successfully overcame the challenges played out on streaming (corresponding to 10.7 of the 2018 financial year, and a company profit of PB of data) for the SRG and its Enterprise Units. CHF 191’128 was recorded. With new CEO Martin Traffic was tripled compared to EURO 2016. Schneider at the helm, who, as the former CEO of This clearly shows that the shift from linear TV to Admeira, is well acquainted with the media world, desktop/mobile is continuing. CONTENTS the company worked hard on the further develop- • As part of a European research project, ment and growth of SWISS TXT. SWISS TXT, together with renowned partners from all over Europe, is developing a new video The year of 2018 was very challenging for both SRG delivery platform for event organisers, media and SWISS TXT. Following the positive outcome for companies and TV stations. The European Com- CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 3 SRG of the «No Billag» initiative (a campaign for the mission is funding the three-year long project. abolition of radio and TV licence fees in Switzer- This platform should promote high-quality land), it became clear that going forward, we will journalism and enable the participation of the HIGHLIGHTS 4 have to tighten our belts. general public with the help of social media connectors. As part of a savings package, CHF 100 million should FACTS & FIGURES 6 be saved per year within the group. SWISS TXT will SWISS TXT was also present at various trade shows be expected to make a contribution to this, mainly and conferences in Switzerland and elsewhere, to in the form of further efficiency savings. At the promote itself and its services, and to make new MARKET DATA AND FIGURES 7 same time, we must push ahead with existing busi- contacts. ACCESS 7 SERVICES ness, without losing our focus on innovation. SWISS TXT is further engaged and motivated by Some highlights from the 2018 financial year are developing innovative solutions for and with its COMPANY 9 worth mentioning: customers and partners, and at the same time, • 8HUMAN RESOURCES working in an even more efficient and cost-effec- • ORGANIGRAM • In the field of live subtitling, SWISS TXT is evolur - tive manner. As the main buyer of our services, • CORPORATE BODIES 10 tionising the market: it is migrating the subtitling the SRG knows that this collaboration is worth infrastructure to its own cloud, and therefore treasuring. The successful year we had in 2018 offers an SaaS solution for the broadcaster. confirms this. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 11 Thanks to this, live subtitling can be carried out • THE BUSINESS AT A GLANCE 11 more conveniently and more quickly, irrespective I would like to thank SWISS TXT employees from • BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR of location. the bottom of my heart for their efforts and per- ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2018 12 • The captioning platform for deaf or hearing- sistence during the financial year, which was made • INCOME STATEMENT 2018 14 impaired students could be brought out of the difficult by the «No Billag» initiative. We did not • CASH FLOW STATEMENT 2018 14 test phase and into operation. take this for granted. • APPENDIX 15 • SWISS TXT, jointly with Clavis IT, offers a modern, • APPLICATION REGARDING scalable hybrid cloud solution. This provides THE APPROPRIATION OF NET INCOME 21 customers with the data control and safety of • AUDIT REPORT 22 a private cloud, as well as the comfort and cost benefits of a public cloud. Marco Derighetti • A record was achieved during the 2018 Foot- Chairman of the Board of Directors ball World Cup: in total, 7.2 million hours were SWISS TXT CORP. SWISS TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 3 2 SWISS TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 HIGHLIGHTS 2018 03. 09. MARCH 07. SEPTEMBER SWISS TXT @ IBC2018 01. SWISS TXT @ NAB SHOW IN JULY LAS VEGAS 05. The- IBC (International Broad casting Convention) took place in FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 2018: At the NAB Show in Las Vegas Amsterdam from 14 to 18 Septem- JANUARY MAY 10,7 PB DATA STREAMED SWISS TXT was introducing a fully ber 2018. The theme of this year’s 02. automated workflow – from report For the duration of the World Cup, LIVE-SUBTITLING FOR THE HYBRID CLOUD: IBC was Web First. to newsroom with the help of arti- from 14 June to 15 July 2018, 10.7 EUROPEAN HANDBALL THE BEST OF TWO WORLDS FEBRUARY ficial intelligence. PB of data was transmitted in to- CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CROATIA 11. clavis IT together with SWISS TXT is tal (SWISS TXT and Akamai CDN) – A SOLUTION FOR MTG TV offering a modern, scalable cloud for our customers across 6 streams NORWAY WINTER OLYMPICS IN PYEONGCHANG: solution. For customers, this pro- dedicated to just the World Cup NOVEMBER By migrating subtitling infrastruc SWISS TXT WAS ALSO THERE vides the data control and security and our servers received 8 trillion ture to its own cloud, SWISS TXT features of a private cloud as well hits (requests). PRO AUDITO SCHWEIZ AND was revolutionising the live sub- The Event Player covered this ma- as the comfort and cost advantages SWISS TXT: titling market with a reasonably- jor sporting event by providing of a public cloud. 12. priced SaaS solution. The service multimedia content on desktops, INFORMATION EVENING was first used for MTG TV Norway mobiles and tablets. The editorial ABOUT SPEECH-TO-TEXT DECEMBER at the European Handball Champi- offices were focusing heavily on live- INTERPRETING IN THE FIELD on-ships in Croatia. streaming via HbbTV, where view- OF EDUCATION SWISS TXT @ EDUCATION ers could access additional sports Thanks to speech-to-text interpret FORUM content in parallel with the linear ing, students and trainees with television broadcasts. Live prime- hearing impairments can follow CREALOGIX Digital Learning hosted time programmes and evening the class in real time on a laptop the annual Education Forum for the round-ups of the Olympic Games or a tablet. twelfth time. Participants were up were subtitled by the SWISS TXT to exciting presentations on the subtitling teams. In readiness for 10. future of vocational education and go-live, all services provided for training. SWISS TXT was presenting the Olympic Games had been 04. the latest interactive video solution put through their paces in the in- OCTOBER at the market stand, which is ideally house Testing Center to ensure WATCH THE VIDEO suited for the use of e-learning. that nothing can spoil viewers’ en- APRIL SWISS TXT @ SWISS TOP joyment of the athletes’ outstand- 08. SPORT EVENT FORUM ing performances. All services and BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED applications were running on the SCIENCES: SWISS TXT has been on site as a in-house infrastructure or in the VIDEO DELIVERY PLATFORM 06. AUGUST premium sponsor during these two SWISS TXT Media Cloud. exciting days and presented the lat- Bern University of Applied Sciences est event solutions from the areas SWISS TXT @ SUISSE EMEX was supplementing its existing LMS JUNE of interactive video and subtitling (Moodle) with a SWISS TXT video SWISS TXT participated in the at a stand. delivery platform. Videos make it SWISS TXT IS DEVELOPING THE Suisse EMEX in Zurich from 28 to possible to use new forms of teach- NEXT-GENERATION OF VIDEO 29 August 2018. At our stand, we ing and communication. DELIVERY PLATFORMS showcased the newest trends on the theme of video. SWISS TXT is developing a new version of its video delivery plat- form for event organisers, media enterprises and TV stations. The European Commission is support- ing the three-year project. WATCH THE VIDEO WATCH THE VIDEO SWISS5 TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 4 SWISS TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2018 FACTS & FIGURES ANNUAL REVENUES PROFIT FOUNDED OWNER CHF 22.6 MILLION CHF 0.191 MILLION 23 DECEMBER 1983 SRG SSR* OUR CLOUD Internet peering 76 ESX hosts Virtual machines Storage Streaming bitrate CDN 2×31 Gb/s 17 TB RAM 2’000 8.8 PB 12 Gb/s 7.7 billion requests/month 6.6 PB transferred ACCESS SERVICES SUBTITLING FOR SRG GERMAN SPEAKING SWITZERLAND: 13’786 hours corresponding to 56.1% of SRG broadcasts As part of our core mission of subtitling, we subtitled quiz show and various SRF own-productions for the 30’091 hours out of the entire broadcasting time. This blind. The range on offer at RSI could be maintained. FRENCH SPEAKING SWITZERLAND: 8’149 hours corresponding to 48.9% of SRG broadcasts corresponds, by conservative estimates, to a share Initial tests with signed programmes are underway. of 51.7% and an increase of 2.2% compared to the We will continue to provide open captioning of RTR ITALIEN SPEAKING previous year. programmes for RTS and RSI via the mediahub. SWITZERLAND: 8’155 hours corresponding to 48.1% of SRG broadcasts Performances differed across the various linguistic The subtitling platform is also developing well. We EMPLOYEES LOCATIONS regions. Whereas SWISS TXT in Zurich reported a were able to recruit a number of new students for 179 (113 FTES) share of 56.1%, in Geneva the share was 48.9% and this service. in Comano 48.1%. This is despite the fact that we em- ployed more means in French-speaking Switzerland AVERAGE and in Italian-speaking Switzerland. The reason for AGE LANGUAGES ZURICH this is the different number of repeats. 37,7 BIEL YEARS DE In addition to subtitling, this year we were also able FR to build on audio description, particularly in Zurich. As IT part of this, we provide audio descriptions of a weekly GENEVA 52% 48% EN COMANO MEN WOMEN *Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation) SWISS7 TXT CORP.