Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Thing #18 that I love about Geneva - Couleur3

Couleur3 is a truly top notch radio station and gives the whole Swiss French area a bit of flair. It offers an excellent selection of alternative music, very little advertising (come to think of it, I'm not sure there is any at all), and has a refreshingly sarky approach that is tempered with social consciousness.

The things that I most adore about Couleur3 are their absolutely brilliant sketches that they run several times a day. Among those that I have laughed myself silly to are:
- a futuristic news briefing that takes place in 2040
- the daily adventures of two shopping clerks
- an all purpose call center called "Intercall for Life" where you can receive help with anything from sending a song to your wife to let you know you have left her for another man to medical aid to extricate your um, "member" from a vacume cleaner

There are oodles of others but they are all magically thought out and seamlessly executed.

Just a radio station perhaps, but a radio station that improves any given day.

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