As before, there will be three programs a week from Tuesdays to Thursdays, but at 10.15 p.m. - one hour earlier than on Sat.1, as Sky announced on Wednesday.

After an excursion to ARD, Schmidt returned to Sat.1 with his late-night concept in the fall of 2011, but the ratings were far below expectations. It only reached an average of 690,000 viewers this year; the market share was a miserable 6.5 percent - in the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49-year-olds, it was even only 5.0 percent. Too little for the Sat.1 management, who pulled the ripcord and ended the show before the actual summer break.

With his future TV home - the pay channels Sky Atlantic HD and Sky Hits/ HD - Schmidt is unlikely to have any problems with ratings: The programs are encrypted and can only be viewed by subscribers, ratings are of secondary importance.

Is it possible that Schmidt will sometimes be available unencrypted on Sky as an incentive for non-Sky customers? That is not currently planned, said a spokesperson. However, it could not be completely ruled out.

For Schmidt fans - and the presenter himself - practically everything else will remain the same: The program will be recorded in the same Cologne studio as before, and will continue to be produced by Kogel & Schmidt GmbH - just on behalf of Sky. (SDA/DPA)

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The Spanish-influenced name Adicto stands for ambition, passion and idealism, according to a statement on Wednesday. This makes Adicto the perfect expression of the mania lived by Nicolás Durán and Christian Woelk, with which they implement authentic, uncompromising and unconventional projects and products for their clients - focused and versed in corporate design, communication design and new media such as mobile apps and ePublishing or social media.

Adicto and its agency, which operates throughout Switzerland, are located at Gallusstrasse 6 in the old town of St. Gallen.

Christian Woelk and Nicolás Durán (from left)

Court President Daniel Gerber acquitted the journalist of the charge of publishing official secret proceedings. The author of the article of July 9, 2011 had justifiably weighed the public interest in the case higher than the authorities' interest in secrecy.

The Supervisory Commission had classified the minutes of May 16, 2011 as confidential. The meeting was about the City of Berne's financial inspector Beat Büschi, who had uncovered irregularities in the social welfare system and then came under criticism himself.

He had investigated the suspicion that the disciplinary proceedings against Büschi could have been an act of revenge by the municipal council, the Bund journalist told the court. At the beginning of July, he had been leaked the minutes with explosive statements, including on the limited functionality of the financial inspectorate.

Unknown source

It remains a mystery how the protocol came to the federal government: the journalist did not want to reveal his source, and the public prosecutor's investigation had already come to nothing last year.

Only the journalist was caught up in the mills of justice: The public prosecutor's office had fined him 400 francs. He defended himself against this, which is why the main hearing took place on Wednesday.

The Bund journalist argued that he considered it a central task of the media to keep an eye on those in power. In a city that has been governed by the same party alliance for 20 years, the media must take a particularly close look.

He quoted from the confidential minutes in order to shed more light on the Büschi case. The legal department of Bund owner tamedia had given the green light: "If it's worth the story, it should be done." If necessary, they would accept "the few hundred francs" in fines.

In his plea, the defense lawyer emphasized that the minutes were confidential, but not secret. It did not contain any state secrets and his client had made a significant contribution to a public debate by publishing it.

The public prosecutor's office stayed away from the trial: it exercised its right not to represent the prosecution in person in court.

Issues of public interest

Court President Gerber essentially followed the argumentation of the defense. In fact, the report had been drafted objectively. Its relevance was demonstrated by the fact that it had triggered a veritable avalanche of parliamentary motions and the resignation of a city councillor.

With the help of the minutes, the newspaper was able to address two issues of public interest: The limited functionality of the financial inspectorate and the way in which the city of Berne's government deals with internal critics.

Gerber justified his acquittal by stating that the federal journalist had therefore performed the control function expressly granted to the media by the legislator. The costs of the proceedings and legal fees will be borne by the state.

 

At the Award Night of the Swiss Dialog Marketing Award 2012 (SDV Award), the stage belongs to the winners, according to a press release. Awards will be presented in gold, silver and bronze in twelve categories as well as three special prizes. Two awards are particularly coveted: the Audience Award, presented by the public, and the Platinum Award, with which the sponsoring association SDV, together with the main sponsor Swiss Post, honors the most outstanding dialog work of the year.

Dine and Ride

The Award Night is not just for cowboys and Indians. This is where the industry comes together at the gala dinner and eagerly awaits the highlight of the evening, the awards ceremony. Melanie Winiger hosts the award night. Later in the evening, everyone meets up for the after-dinner party in the Swiss Post lounge. According to the press release, the Award Night is ideal as an employee and customer event. Special offers and tickets are available at Dm-award.ch.
 

All new owners come from the distribution area of Radio 32 and are anxious to maintain and further develop the journalistic orientation of the radio station, according to a statement by AZ Medien on Wednesday. AZ Medien still holds 11.2 percent of Radio 32. With the sale of the share packages, AZ Medien fulfilled a provision of the RTVG, according to which a media company may not own more than two radios. Because the main shareholder of AZ Medien, BT Holding, will own two radios, Radio Argovia and the recently acquired Radio 24, once the license has been transferred, the sale of a majority stake in Radio 32 has become unavoidable.

The shareholder structure of Radio 32 is now as follows: Dietschi 21.90 percent, Zofinger Tagblatt 21.82 percent, Lagerhäuser 20 percent, Netbasket 20 percent, AZ Medien 11.28 percent and Gassmann 5.0 percent. Board members Philip Funk and Peter Wanner will step down as representatives of AZ Medien at the upcoming Extraordinary General Meeting. Newly proposed for election to the Board of Directors are Stéphane Meyer (Aarau) and Stephan Glättli (Olten).

The approval of the Uvek for these share sales remains reserved.
 

The new layout of the Website The agency said in a press release that the relaunch goes hand in hand with an increase in the agency's staff and promises a number of visual and functional innovations. 08Eins invites visitors to take their time to click through the menus and find out more about the marketing communications sector.

According to the Press Council, editorial offices that refuse to publish the texts of someone or a group of people are in breach of the principle of freedom of information. Editorial offices may and should decide whether to publish individual letters to the editor or internet comments. However, there must be particularly compelling reasons for blocking publication.

The Press Council assessed the complaint of a reader of Südostschweiz. The reader made frequent and sometimes highly critical comments in the newspaper's internet forum. The editor-in-chief rated the posts as "annoying" and "eternally opinionated". Finally
he decided not to publish any further articles by the reader. The reader complained about the ban to the Press Council and also accused Südostschweiz of violating its duty to tell the truth in two articles.

The Press Council denies a violation of the duty to tell the truth. On the other hand, it considers the general publication ban to be a violation of the freedom of information (section 2 of the "Declaration of the duties and rights of journalists"). This is all the more true,
The Press Council states in its statement that this is the case when a medium - such as Südostschweiz - has a regional dominant position.

Even readers' letters and participants in Internet forums - known as "trolls" in Internet jargon - who dominate the discussions in forums with the number of their posts alone, may only be allowed to post on the Internet for particularly weighty reasons.
be excluded.

Editorial offices can restrict access to Internet forums in the same way as on a readers' letters page, for example by imposing strict requirements on content, relevance or quality. The rules for writers of letters to the editor and users of Internet forums should be published. It should be clear to everyone which texts will not be published. The focus should always be on the content of the texts and not on their authors.

 

The final differences are to be resolved in a further meeting before the finished report can be submitted to the Federal Department of Justice. Urs F. Meyer (photo), Managing Director of the Swiss Media Association, said this on Monday after a meeting between the two parties at the request of the SDA news agency. The representatives of the publishers and SRG hoped that the finished report could be submitted to the Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) at the end of June. According to Meyer, the level of a threshold for the introduction of online advertising is still open. Publishers and SRG still want to obtain figures from Mediapulse before the next meeting. The final round of talks will also discuss issues relating to cooperation between publishers and SRG.

SRG did not wish to comment on the ongoing talks when asked by SDA on Monday.

In September 2011, Media Minister Doris Leuthard called on the two camps to work together to find solutions in the highly competitive online market. Since then, publishers and SRG have been working in working groups to find solutions for content and advertising in the online business. A first partial report was submitted to the Uvek in April of this year. (SDA)

> Online dispute: Doris Leuthard invites to round table

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As Melani writes in a newsletter on Tuesday, two attacks last year on the certification providers Comodo and Digi Notar, which are recognized as trustworthy, have caused great concern among experts. The attackers succeeded in issuing false SSL/TLS (Security Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) server certificates. Such certificates are used in e-banking, among other things, to establish a secure connection between the customer's computer and the bank's server.

If the perpetrators succeed in redirecting an e-banking user to a server controlled by them without being noticed, they can send the victim such a certificate. The victim's browser accepts the certificate as genuine. The perpetrators can then control the transmitted data and decrypt it.

Such attacks could also be used to enforce state surveillance on the internet. Certificates in Iran were probably also used in this way to monitor the communication of opposition figures on Facebook and Twitter, the Melani experts write.

As there are only a few solutions for preventing such attacks, the experts advocate making the attacks as difficult and complex as possible. To this end, they propose a series of technically complex strategies. (SDA)
 

In her lively phases, she gets into absurd situations - which temporarily end fatally for her. An extremely macabre affair.

The commercial created by Draftfbc Buones Aires advertises a job placement company. The message: If you have to use your grandma's accident as an excuse for missing a meeting, you're clearly in the wrong job - find a job that you really enjoy. And for heaven's sake, let your grandma rest in peace.

 

Rather, the contact persons for media representatives are primarily the attending physicians and nursing staff, writes the Press Council in a statement on Tuesday. In principle, patients are free to decide whether they provide information to the media, even in a hospital environment.

At the end of 2011, Blick reported on a shooting at Mc Donald's in Biel. The report describes the attack from the point of view of the shift manager in charge, who was hit by three shots
was. A Blick journalist visited the injured man in hospital the following day and persuaded him to make a statement to the newspaper and to have his injury photographed. Mc Donald's Switzerland then complained to the Press Council, the journalist
had not disclosed her profession from the beginning and had harassed the victim, who was still in shock, until he had his wound photographed. This violated the privacy and human dignity of the employee concerned. Blick objected that the journalist had appeared in the company of a photographer and had introduced herself correctly. In addition, the interview had been interrupted by a doctor's visit, and later the injured man's wife had also joined the interview without anyone raising any objections.

The Press Council rejects the complaint. Visiting and interviewing an injured person in hospital one day after a multiple gunshot wound could violate privacy under certain circumstances.

In the specific case, however, it had not been proven that the Mc Donald's employee was still in shock. On the basis of all the circumstances, it must be assumed that the injured man answered the journalists' questions voluntarily. Neither had he made use of the bell usually available at a hospital bed, nor had he expressed himself to the doctors or his family to the effect that he wished to be left alone by Blick. Under these circumstances, at least tacit consent had to be assumed. Nor was it proven that the Blick journalist had exploited the plight of a victim who was still in shock and had thus violated his human dignity.

 

"The best place for healthcare professions" - Matter & Gretener has been using this strategic slogan to communicate the benefits of the Careum Education Center's colleges for healthcare professions since 2010. Where else can you study in the immediate vicinity of so many healthcare facilities? And where else can you benefit from such close cooperation with teaching and internship companies? The visualization of this great practical relevance has been based on the same idea since the beginning of the campaign: just as there is a best place for other studies (on the current subjects this is the deep sea for marine biology or Rome for studying history), it is the Careum Education Center for higher education in healthcare professions.

Responsible at Matter & Gretener: Daniel Matter (CD), Dominik Imseng (text), Marco Bienek (graphics), Marcus Gretener, Simone Frei (consulting). Banner programming: Hausheer.