Dani Büchi new Managing Director of Energy Zurich

As of August 1, 2007, Dani Büchi will take over the management of Energy Zürich; he has been head of programming and marketing since the launch of Energy nine years ago and has now also taken over the sales management ad interim. He replaces Jürg Bachmann, who has been managing director for the past four years. In the future, Bachmann will take care of strategic projects in the area of digitalization for Energy Zürich, Ringier and Goldbach Media. Bachmann will also continue to serve as president of the Association of Swiss Private Radio Stations, Ringier spokesman Marco Castellaneta told Werbewoche in response to an inquiry. In order to adapt the company's structures more strongly to the multimedia business, as the media release states, the entire management will be reshuffled; Pascal Frei, previously head of communications, will become head of marketing and also take a seat on the management board. The third member is Hans Knobloch, who, as Head of Content, will take over the areas of radio and website ad interim. In terms of multimedia, Energy is planning, for example, to expand the range of special-interest stations on the website.
At the end of June, DETEC approved the sale of a 51 percent stake in Energy Zürich by Goldbach Media to Ringier. With the station purchase, Ringier wants to secure a 360-degree media package, Castellaneta continued: "The reason for the entry into Zurich is that we want to have a strong presence in Switzerland's most important media center ". 49 percent of the share capital in Energy Zurich will remain in the possession of the French NRJ Group.