To the point: Looking back
Now that summer has finally arrived here, the World Cup has come to an early end for the Swiss national team, and the media is slowly sinking into the summer slump, there’s still time for a brief look back at the past first half of the year. Quite a bit happened during that time:
In February, the Hagemann publishing family and Publigroupe sold their shares in Basler Zeitung Medien to investors Tito Tettamanti and Martin Wagner. Basler Zeitung will remain as a separate, independent newspaper.
After a good two years of planning and ten months of construction, the Blick Group's Integrated Newsroom started operations on schedule in the second week of March. The editorial teams of Blick, SonntagsBlick, Blick am Abend and Blick.ch together with the Web TV Center form the largest newsroom in Switzerland.
Then, in April, came the big surprise coup: the media houses NZZ Media Group and Tamedia agreed to swap their regional newspaper holdings in the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich. The Gut publishing family and FPH Freie Presse Holding sell their stakes in the Zurich regional newspapers Zürcher Unterländer, Zürichsee Zeitung and Zürcher Oberländer to Tamedia, and Tamedia cedes to FPH Freie Presse Holding AG, a subsidiary of the NZZ Media Group, its 100 percent stake in Huber & Co, the publisher of the Thurgauer Zeitung.
In May, the advertising sales company Publi¬groupe will sell its 19.9 percent stake in Edipresse in full. A 17.9 percent block of shares will be taken over by Edipresse's majority shareholder, Lamunière SA, by May 25, 2010.
Also in May, the election of the new SRG Director General. The new one is Roger de Weck. The 56-year-old de Weck will succeed Armin Walpen in office on January 1, 2011. The election leads to strong reactions from the right-wing party spectrum.
In June, Rudolf Matter is elected SRG's first Super Director. The editor-in-chief of Radio DRS becomes director of SRG's German-language radio and television programs. The 56-year-old from Basel-Landschaft takes up the newly created post on January 1, 2011.
With this issue, Werbewoche says goodbye to the summer break. The next issue (issue 13|2010) will be published on August 12.
We wish all our readers a wonderful vacation season. Enjoy some carefree days!
Pierre C. Meier, Editor-in-Chief
[email protected]
After a good two years of planning and ten months of construction, the Blick Group's Integrated Newsroom started operations on schedule in the second week of March. The editorial teams of Blick, SonntagsBlick, Blick am Abend and Blick.ch together with the Web TV Center form the largest newsroom in Switzerland.
Then, in April, came the big surprise coup: the media houses NZZ Media Group and Tamedia agreed to swap their regional newspaper holdings in the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich. The Gut publishing family and FPH Freie Presse Holding sell their stakes in the Zurich regional newspapers Zürcher Unterländer, Zürichsee Zeitung and Zürcher Oberländer to Tamedia, and Tamedia cedes to FPH Freie Presse Holding AG, a subsidiary of the NZZ Media Group, its 100 percent stake in Huber & Co, the publisher of the Thurgauer Zeitung.
In May, the advertising sales company Publi¬groupe will sell its 19.9 percent stake in Edipresse in full. A 17.9 percent block of shares will be taken over by Edipresse's majority shareholder, Lamunière SA, by May 25, 2010.
Also in May, the election of the new SRG Director General. The new one is Roger de Weck. The 56-year-old de Weck will succeed Armin Walpen in office on January 1, 2011. The election leads to strong reactions from the right-wing party spectrum.
In June, Rudolf Matter is elected SRG's first Super Director. The editor-in-chief of Radio DRS becomes director of SRG's German-language radio and television programs. The 56-year-old from Basel-Landschaft takes up the newly created post on January 1, 2011.
With this issue, Werbewoche says goodbye to the summer break. The next issue (issue 13|2010) will be published on August 12.
We wish all our readers a wonderful vacation season. Enjoy some carefree days!
Pierre C. Meier, Editor-in-Chief
[email protected]
