New: Listen to the radio via the blue TV app

JanineZ I’ll certainly give that a try. However, this is unlikely to be the solution, as my favourites (Mixradio Gran Canaria, Radio PrimaVera GC, and Radio VM1) are not available on blue. At home I listen to them via the Receiver app on an iPad and the sound is output to Apple Homepods and on the go directly via the Receiver app on the iPhone.

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The statement that Swisscom’s device restrictions for the use of its entire blue TV platform (i.e. the whole old thing about a maximum of 5 mobile devices and a maximum of 3 changes of mobile devices within 3 months) has only remotely anything to do with the restrictions of TV providers can be heard second-hand from time to time.
Unfortunately, it has always been, and continues to be, nothing other than crosswise.

Just to briefly point out the publicly accessible legal and organisational framework conditions:

- Swisscom (Schweiz) AG obtains all of its paid content for its entire end customer business from precisely one company, namely blue Entertainment AG, which has around 600 employees and is active as a buyer and seller in the international rights business for media content. This is not only for the redistribution via the blue TV app, the trading of blue Sports content, but also for cinemas, other media streaming services and other content businesses in general content brokering.

- the content usage contracts of Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd always have only blue Entertainment AG, which is itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd, as the exclusive and direct contractual partner. Assuming the appropriate powers of attorney for both companies, the same Swisscom managers can therefore sign the content usage contracts of Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd for both companies at the same time.

Anyone who still thinks that some external rights holder of an individual piece of content, for which he has at some point concluded a possibly exotic licence agreement with a pure content company, which itself even has a resale right to third parties, and this would then be able to restrict the buyer of this one piece of content, in this specific case namely Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd, its own technical rights of use of its completely own platform, namely blue TV with all “additions”, is quite simply mistaken.

Conclusion: The restrictions on the use of the complete blue TV app to a maximum of 5 mobile devices and the change of a maximum of 3 devices within 3 months are not “externally controlled” or externally enforced, but a conscious decision by the owner of the blue TV platform, i.e. Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd.

Unfortunately, however, this “old pigtail”, which from our customers’ point of view has long since simply had to be cut off, still persists.
Perhaps, in the meantime, they have simply forgotten why this very harassing device switching regulation was ever introduced in the first place, or perhaps 1-2 decisive “concrete heads” within Swisscom must first retire before they can switch to an industry-standard usage regulation of a certain number of parallel streams without a device switching regulation.

PS: Incidentally, all TV channel providers, such as SRF, which is mainly financed by Serafe fees, have no interest in user-oriented device restrictions of the individual programme distributors anyway, as the maximum reach of their programmes is the most important thing for the TV channels themselves, as advertising revenue also depends on this.
By imposing device restrictions on blue TV that are too restrictive and not really justified, Swisscom is therefore also working against SRF’s financial interests as a side effect, although the same naturally also applies to all radio stations.

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I just got an update of the BlueTV app tonight from 7.0.0 to 7.0.0 (really!) - now radio is available…

But unfortunately I can’t use the radio on my wife’s device because of this stupid device restriction 🤦‍♀️ @JanineZ