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2020 ANNUAL REPORT SWISS TXT CORP. CONTENTS CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD 3 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD FACTS & FIGURES 5 HIGHLIGHTS 6 The 2020 financial year was especially challen- services. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, ging for SWISS TXT Corp. Completing our most aspects of the merger had to be completed merger at the same time as dealing with a “virtually.” This meant that the members of the MARKET DATA variety of complex projects and providing newly-merged teams had to get to know each AND FIGURES 8 stable, high-performance IT infrastructure for other on a screen at a distance, at the same time as n ACCESS SERVICES 7 our parent company SRG SSR, all in the middle getting used to working together using new and/ of the COVID-19 pandemic, represented an or updated procedures. With the exception of our extraordinary challenge for the newly-merged Access Services staff, who need access to bespoke COMPANY 10 SWISS TXT and all its staff. We can be very production workstations at our Zurich, Geneva and n HUMAN RESOURCES 8 proud of what we have achieved together Comano offices, SWISS TXT worked almost entirely n ORGANIGRAM over the past year. We recorded a slight in- remotely from mid-March 2020 onwards. n CORPORATE BODIES crease in profit, which rose to CHF 0.43 million. When the Swiss Federal Council declared a state of SWISS TXT has also been operating as SRG’s new emergency, our parent company SRG was able to FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 13 centre of excellence for infrastructure, digital, distri- switch to “remote mode” extremely quickly thanks n THE BUSINESS AT A GLANCE bution and access services since 1 January 2020. to SWISS TXT’s stable, scalable IT infrastructure, n BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR As part of the merger we completed this year, all professional services, and expertise. ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2020 SRG’s previous national services have been trans- n INCOME STATEMENT 2020 ferred to SWISS TXT. This move will help us to ex- SWISS TXT is proud to have played its part in n CASH FLOW STATEMENT 2020 pand and improve the services we already provide ensuring that programme-makers have been able n APPENDIX internally to SRG even further, as well as to gene- to carry on producing content in line with their n APPLICATION REGARDING THE rate more revenue on the market from selected mandate right through the pandemic. APPROPRIATION OF NET INCOME n AUDIT REPORT SWISS TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2020 3 CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD FACTS & SWISS TXT provided a wide range of support to FIGURES people with sensory impairments across Switzer- land during the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing subtitles for all of SRG’s TV channels and producing sign-language videos on behalf of Copyright: SRG SSR Copyright: the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). Thanks to our work, viewers with sensory impair- ments were able to gain all-important access to ANNUAL REVENUE PROFIT FOUNDED OWNER news and information about COVID-19 on TV and CHF 59.5 MILLION CHF 0.43 MILLION 23 DECEMBER 1983 SRG SSR* via the Internet. SWISS TXT can also look back on some successful SUBTITLING FOR SRG complex projects in 2020. For example, SWISS TXT consolidated its position as Switzerland’s leading GERMAN-SPEAKING SWITZERLAND: 17’295 hours of subtitles, or 70.2% of SRG’s total programme output provider of multimedia accessibility and subtitling FRENCH-SPEAKING services by translating and subtitling all the videos SWITZERLAND: 11’983 hours of subtitles, or 71.7% of SRG’s total programme output Our contribution included providing capable, made available on SRG’s new streaming platform ITALIAN-SPEAKING reliable, high-performance IT infrastructure for SRG, Play Suisse, as well as producing accessible live SWITZERLAND: 11’410 hours of subtitles, or 67.0% of SRG’s total programme output and providing and operating the systems needed streams for Geneva’s cantonal parliament and tran- for staff to work from home successfully. scripts of the Federal Parliament’s winter sessions. FROM (218 FTE) INCLUDING LANGUAGES SWISS TXT has successfully positioned itself as a I would like to take this opportunity to say a 279 17 10 reliable internal service provider as part of the new heartfelt thank-you to SWISS TXT’s executive board, DE service governance structure, and supports SRG team leaders and staff for their extraordinary STAFF COUNTRIES TRAINEES by acting as its cloud broker and cloud centre of commitment, and for the incredible work they FR excellence. SWISS TXT is thus making a major con- have delivered over what has been a hugely AVERAGE AGE IT tribution to SRG’s digital transformation, with a demanding year. particular focus on cloud strategy. 66% 34% 39,3 EN MEN WOMEN YEARS Marco Derighetti Chairman of the Board of Directors *Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation) SWISS 5 TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2020 4 SWISS TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2020 HIGHLIGHTS 2020 02 10 FEBRUARY OCTOBER ACCESSIBLE LIVE STREAMS SILAS: FOR GENEVA’S CANTONAL SIGN LANGUAGE SERVICE PARLIAMENT 05 08 SWISS TXT worked together with Geneva’s cantonal parliament is the MAY SILAS to develop a tool that al- first in Switzerland to broadcast its AUGUST lows deaf people to interact sessions live on the internet, com- CONTENT4ALL WINS THE directly with companies using plete with subtitles and sign-lan sign language. NAB TECHNOLOGY SWISS TXT ASSUMES 01 guage interpreting. SWISS TXT is INNOVATION AWARD 2020 responsible for producing the sub- RESPONSIBILITY FOR TPC JANUARY titles and interpreting, as well as STREAMINGHOUSE for the video player application SWISS TXT is proud to be part of the 12 EU research project “Content4All”, required to watch the live stream. As part of SRF’s takeover of tpc, which won the coveted NAB SWISS TXT BECOMES SRG’S SWISS TXT assumed responsibility Technology Innovation Award. 07 DECEMBER NEW CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE for Streaminghouse. Its range of 04 Content4All will completely auto- FOR ICT AND ACCESS SERVICES services covers event live streams mate sign-language interpreting. JULY and a range of on-demand video SWISS TXT SUBTITLES 1’000 VIDEOS IN 4 LANGUAGES FOR SWISS TXT Corp. merged with SRG’s APRIL services. They are available on any PLAY SUISSE internal IT and infrastructure unit INTERACTIVE VIDEO: CRITICAL end device, so viewers can access (INIT) on 1 January 2020, creating SIGN-LANGUAGE VIDEOS INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE them any time, anywhere. a new SRG centre of excellence FOR THE FEDERAL OFFICE OF IN JUST ONE CLICK In less than 4 months, SWISS TXT for infrastructure, digital, distri- PUBLIC HEALTH (FOPH) provided subtitles for around 1’000 bution and access services. The SWISS TXT worked together with videos in 4 languages for inclusion newly-created company will con- SWISS TXT produced sign-language the team from the “Stand-Up- on SRG’s new Play Suisse stream- tinue to operate as a wholly-owned WATCH VIDEO videos for the FOPH, ensuring that Paddle Race around Nidau” to ing platform. We could only handle subsidiary of SRG under the aus- viewers with sensory impairments produce a video with interactive this enormous volume of material pices of SWISS TXT Corp. could access vital information elements. The video links directly thanks to our machine translation 11 and post-editing platform, which about the coronavirus. WATCH VIDEO to the various sponsors’ websites. It also serves to tell paddlers about we developed in-house. how to register for the event and NOVEMBER how to tackle the course. 03 E-ACCESSIBILITY ONLINE CONFERENCE MARCH SWISS TXT provided the live SWISS TXT TAKES PART IN 06 subtitles and sign-language inter- SWISS E-GOVERNMENT-FORUM 09 preting for the E-Accessibility JUNE Online Conference. As an official partner, we were SEPTEMBER delighted that SWISS TXT was SWISS TXT DEVELOPS CIRRUS, represented in person at this exci- THE SWISS SME CLOUD SIGN-LANGUAGE ting conference. Our colleague WATCH VIDEO INTERPRETING FOR SRF Michaela Nachtrab gave an ad- dress in the afternoon, explaining The SWISS SME CLOUD PORTAL the solution SWISS TXT had just helps companies to control their SWISS TXT produced sign-language developed and deployed for one cloud infrastructure efficiently interpreting for SRF’s children’s and of Switzerland’s parliaments. by giving them a clear system for youth programming. monitoring resources and con- trolling costs. WATCH VIDEO SWISS 7 TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2020 6 SWISS TXT CORP. – ANNUAL REPORT 2020 ACCESS SERVICES SUBTITLE PRODUCTION BROADCAST HOURS %OF TOTAL +/- (%) OUTPUT SRF 1 5’713 71.4 14.3 SRF zwei 5’267 63.2 1.3 SRF info 6’315 76.2 8.9 SRF TOTAL 17’295 70.2 8.1 RTS Un 5’232 63.5 12.0 RTS Deux 6’751 79.6 6.7 RTS TOTAL 11’983 71.7 9.0 RSI LA 1 5’896 69.9 12.8 RSI LA 2 5’514 64.3 -1.3 RSI TOTAL 11’410 67.0 5.5 TOTAL HOURS ACROSS SWITZERLAND 40’688 69.7 7.6 ACCESS SERVICES PLAY SUISSE German 879 French 772 Under an agreement between SRG and the Asso the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, this year saw Italian 1’264 ciation of Swiss Societies for people with Sensory us sell subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, foreign lan- TOTAL HOURS ACROSS SWITZERLAND 2’915 Impairments, SRG was obliged to increase its share guage subtitles and audio description on a number Percentage is based on the total duration of all broadcast output of subtitled programming by 5% in 2020, taking of external markets. the overall percentage to 70%. Across Switzerland, SWISS TXT subtitled 69.7% of television program- However, two particular projects stand out in 2020: ming, or 40’688 hours of footage.