Who feels like NW1?
Private Radio Stations: The electricity provider EBM wants to sell its stake in NW1. That probably won't be easy.
Electricity supplier Elektra Birseck Münchenstein (EBM) intends to withdraw from its
50 percent commitment to the Basel-based private broadcaster NW1 from
Radio Basilisk founder Christian Heeb to leave the company "as quickly as possible", as
EBM Director Hans Büttiker recently told the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung newspaper
said. He is negotiating "with interested domestic parties".
In addition to financial investors and personalities from Basel, the
Basler Zeitung Medien (BZM), Tamedia, the NZZ and AZ Medien in
Question. No statement was available from the NZZ, the other
wave off.
At BZM, the aim with Heeb since the sale of Radio
Basilisk will no longer do business with Tamedia. The focus is on cooperation
with TeleBasel, says BZM CEO Beat Meyer. He also believes that the
region cannot cope with two TVs. An opinion shared by Andreas Meili,
Head of Electronic Media at Tamedia, shares. He and Florenz
Schaffner from AZ Medien (Tele M1, TeleTell) want to wait for the
new RTVA and the new invitation to tender for TV licenses.
Nevertheless, Schaffner is the most interested party, as he was
but in January at NW1 and spoke "without obligation" with Heeb, as he
says himself. What's more, two years ago he still had a
The company applied for an extension of the territory to Basel, but on the advice of the
Bakom withdrew again. "Never say never," he says.
The last possible interested party in NW1 is TeleBasel, or rather its
The sponsor, the cable network foundation. It is true that an agreement was reached with NW1 about
cooperations and even "about a reconstitution of the sponsorship
of NW1 analogous to the "Basel foundation model", so
Foundation President Heinrich Löffler. "But without result." He was too
ready for further talks.
Markus Knöpfli
