News: NordWest 5 is being revitalized
The Basel-Landschaft-based local TV station NordWest 5 (NW 5) is being given a new lease on life through its collaboration with NordWest Medien AG, a production company founded specifically for this purpose.
New life is being breathed into the local Basel TV station NordWest 5 (NW 5) - through cooperation with the production company NordWest Medien AG founded for this purpose.News NordWest 5 is being revived The managing director is the journalist Beat Alder, head of the content provider Internet Medien AG and the regional portal Netzpress.ch. The shareholders are EBM (formerly Elektra Birseck Münchenstein) and Internationale Treuhand AG (Itag) owned by Fritz Schuhmacher, Vice-Chairman of the Basel media group. NW 5 broadcasts to 25 municipalities in Basel, but not to Basel (130000 potential viewers). Alder wants to have daily television in a year's time.
Basel toilet deal rejected The Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt has unanimously rejected a concept for public toilets to the government. The plan was for the Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG) to finance self-cleaning toilet facilities in return for the rights to 254 new illuminated poster sites. The Grand Council is of the opinion that the government has allowed itself to be taken advantage of by APG.
"P" index falls again After the Publicitas index, which measures the development of advertising expenditure in the daily press, was able to slow down its decline somewhat in April, it fell more steeply again in May. The index lost 2.1 points and, at 116.2 points, is at the level of April 1999. However, Publicitas reports that commercial advertising almost reached the level of 2001.
PWA Index stagnates The Publimedia Web Advertising Index (PWA Index) remained practically at the previous month's level in May: it lost 0.1 points and now stands at 101.7 points. The downward trend of the last three months has thus been halted.
Basel toilet deal rejected The Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt has unanimously rejected a concept for public toilets to the government. The plan was for the Allgemeine Plakatgesellschaft (APG) to finance self-cleaning toilet facilities in return for the rights to 254 new illuminated poster sites. The Grand Council is of the opinion that the government has allowed itself to be taken advantage of by APG.
"P" index falls again After the Publicitas index, which measures the development of advertising expenditure in the daily press, was able to slow down its decline somewhat in April, it fell more steeply again in May. The index lost 2.1 points and, at 116.2 points, is at the level of April 1999. However, Publicitas reports that commercial advertising almost reached the level of 2001.
PWA Index stagnates The Publimedia Web Advertising Index (PWA Index) remained practically at the previous month's level in May: it lost 0.1 points and now stands at 101.7 points. The downward trend of the last three months has thus been halted.
