The return of the Rose d'Or Festival from fall to spring is in line with the needs of the international TV industry, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. The next Awards Ceremony will now take place on May 10, 2012 at the KKL in Lucerne. It will be the highlight of the Rose dOr Festival Week, which runs from May 6 to 10, 2012 and will offer events and forums for national and international television professionals as well as for the people of Lucerne.
However, the Rose dOr Festival will begin in May 2011 with the announcement of the 51st Rose dOr competition. Television professionals from all over the world are then invited to submit their programs. The nominees in the individual award categories will be announced in November 2011. And in May 2012, a top-class jury of television experts will decide who will receive the Golden Roses at the 51st Awards Ceremony in Lucerne.
Rose d'Or all year round
For the first time, the Rose d'Or also offers current contributions on developments in the world of television during the year and allows different voices to have their say. The Rose dOr thus builds on the forum events of the last festival and offers the television industry a platform that enables an ongoing exchange and discussion. Unlike in the past, from 2011 the Rose dOr Festival will no longer be limited to the festival days and the annual awards ceremony.
Realignment of the competition
The Rose dOr competition will once again focus on its original objective: honoring the best formats and programs from the world of television entertainment. For this reason, the existing catalog of categories will be revised. It will be streamlined and simplified and will also take even greater account of trends in television entertainment. The competition will now be largely web-based. This will give the jury the opportunity to evaluate the competition entries online in future.
Change in the Rose dOr management
At the end of November, Festival Director Rolf Probala hands over the reins to Markus Helbling, who has been Managing Director and Co-Director of Rose dOr AG since October 2010. Rolf Probala took over the management of the Rose d'Or at short notice in December 2009. He organized the 50th Rose dOr Festival, which took place in Lucerne in September, and successfully guided the Rose dOr through its anniversary year in 2010. Rolf Probala will continue to be available to the Rose dOr in an advisory role.

The agreement includes all live and re-utilization rights as well as filming permission for productions of additional broadcast material with SRG's own cameras. The agreement applies to all SRG television and radio stations and multimedia platforms.
SRG television stations have been broadcasting Formula 1 races since 1969. This year's Formula 1 season ends on Sunday, November 14, 2010, with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. SRG television channels SF zwei, TSR 2 and RSI LA 2 will broadcast the race live from 13:50.

On December 8, 2010, the Papiersaal in Zurich will be all about digital marketing. IAB Switzerland presents the first edition of the "Digital Marketing Day". At this independent event for online marketing, the focus will be on digital communication as a whole. The awards ceremony for the Digital Marketer of the Year (DMY) and the Digital Pioneer of the Year (DPY) are the highlights of the evening, according to the press release. Presentations by top-class online experts and the subsequent party round off the event.
The following companies have been nominated for the "Digital Marketer of the Year": 20 Minuten, Blick, Swiss International Air Lines, CSS Insurance, RonOrp, Adcloud and Wilmaa. Voting for the "Digital Marketer of the Year" will take place online on the IAB Switzerland website held.
The following personalities have been nominated for the "Digital Pioneer of the Year" award: Daniel Grossen, Reto Hartinger, Martin Radelfinger, Imre Sinka and Andreas Widmer. The "Digital Pioneer of the Year" is selected by the IAB Switzerland Board and Group members.

The VHF station Rete Uno will report on events in the canton in a five to ten-minute program from Monday to Friday evenings, as RSI director Dino Balestra explained in Chur on Wednesday, according to SDA. The new news journal will be aimed at the approximately 20,000 Italian-speaking inhabitants of Graubünden from next February and will only be broadcast in the canton.
RSI is increasing its team of editors for Graubünden from four to a maximum of 6.5 full-time positions. In doing so, the broadcaster is fulfilling the canton's long-standing request to provide the Italian-speaking part of Graubünden with more information on current affairs from the whole of the canton. In return, the canton is dropping a supervisory complaint submitted to the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) in September 2009, said Cantonal Councillor Claudio Lardi. Graubünden complained that RSI was not fulfilling its concession mandate as it was providing insufficient information to the Italian-speaking people of Graubünden.
The agreement between RSI and the canton was only reached after Bakom Director Martin Dumermuth took the lead in negotiations between the parties. Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard granted approval for the new regional journal on November 3.

Over 100 representatives from politics, administration, the media, business and non-governmental organizations are taking part in the conference in the Grand Council building. They will discuss the necessity and feasibility of a Media House of the Alps, as Radio e Televisium Rumantscha (RTR) in Chur reported according to SDA.
Federal Councillor Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf will give a speech entitled "The Alpine region - a single entity?". Professor Werner Bätzing from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) will speak on "The necessity of a media house for sustainable Alpine development".
The aim is to launch "Las-Alps-infoteca" as a hub for information from the Alps about the Alps, both in terms of content and organization. At the end of the conference, a project organization for the development of the competence center for media in the Alps is to be specified.
According to RTR, it intends to initiate the project. However, it will not be up to RTR or SRG to carry or manage "Las-Alps-infoteca".
The Media House of the Alps will deal with topics that concern people throughout the Alpine arc. The plan is to build up a network to offer such topics to an international audience. In a second step, "Las-Alps-infoteca" will produce its own journalistic products.

In addition, all employees of the Internet company worldwide would receive a Christmas bonus of 1000 dollars, reported an American blog according to SDA. The salary increase could cost Google up to one billion dollars a year, the blog, which also published the full text of the email, estimated. Google only made an evasive comment on the pay rise. "While we don't typically comment on internal matters, we believe competitive pay is important to the future of the company," a spokesperson said.
Google is considered one of the most attractive employers, not least thanks to numerous additional benefits for employees - from free snacks to hairdressing, cleaning and a gym at the workplace. In the meantime, however, the internet company has reduced such benefits somewhat. Many talented software developers and managers also see greater future opportunities at younger companies - above all at the world's largest online network, Facebook. Most recently, for example, the respected software developer Lars Rasmussen, who played a leading role in developing the Google Maps map service and the Google Wave communication program, moved to Facebook.

In 2011, the Red Dot Award: Product Design will be judged in eighteen different groups; the former category "Architecture and Interior Design" will be split into the new categories "Interior Design" and "Architecture and Urban Design" for the first time this year.
The award ceremony for all winners of the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2011 will take place on July 4, 2011 in a festive setting at the Aalto Theater in Essen. The Red Dot Design Museum will be showing all the winning products in a
Afterwards, the award-winning products will be exhibited for at least one year in the Red Dot Design Museum at the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Manufacturers and designers whose products have been industrially manufactured and launched on the market after January 1, 2009 or will go into series production before July 1, 2011 are eligible to participate.
Registration fees:
Early Bird until December 3, 2010: 200 Euro
Regular until January 21, 2011: 220 Euro
Latecomers until February 9, 2011: 240 Euro
Award ceremony: July 4, 2011
Special exhibition: July 5 to August 1, 2011
> To the online registration

Peter Habegger has continuously built up his succession over the last four years, as was reported in a press release on Wednesday:
- In 2006, Peter Habegger began to consider strategic succession planning.
- In 2008, he appointed his longstanding employee Christof Murer as Managing Director and
Jürg Schwarz as Deputy Managing Director.
- Bluepark AG was integrated into the company in 2009. The previous owner of
Bluepark AG, Simon Ackermann, became a partner of Habegger AG and partner of Peter Habegger.
- In 2009, Sandro Marazzi (Head of Finance), Samuel Röthlisberger (Head of Media Scenography) and André Baumann (Head of Media Architecture) were appointed to the Executive Board alongside Christof Murer and Jürg Schwarz. From this point onwards, Peter Habegger and Simon Ackermann were responsible for the company's strategy as members of the Board of Directors. Operational management remained entirely in the hands of the Executive Board.
Peter Habegger retires from the company as a shareholder. He will continue to be responsible for consulting and development within Habegger AG. A portion of Peter Habegger's shares will be acquired by the German Dialog Feld Communication Group, based in Munich with branches in Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Vienna. Habegger AG will be integrated into the Group as a company, but will remain fully independent in legal terms, with its brand and all services. The services of Habegger AG will now be offered throughout the entire market served by the Group.
Simon Ackermann, the largest single shareholder, becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors of Habegger AG. In addition to Oliver Walter and Gerd Pieplow Joins the management of the Dialog Feld Communication Group. He will be responsible for the strategic development of Habegger AG and the Group. As Chief Creative Officer, he will manage and oversee the Group's conceptual and creative work.
The long-standing employees and members of the Executive Board Christof Murer, Jürg Schwarz and Sandro Marazzi will become new shareholders of Habegger AG. The integration of the operational management into the shareholder base guarantees the continuation of ongoing business and customer relationships.
Since its foundation, Habegger AG has been one of the leading companies in the Swiss live communication industry, according to the press release. Peter Habegger was one of the first to enter the market as a full-service provider in the field of event technology. Today, the company is a broad-based supplier of solutions in the fields of media events, media architecture, scenography and film/TV productions.

With its decision, the First Public Law Division of the Federal Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by Swiss Television (SF), as reported by SDA on Wednesday. The case revolves around a blog from 2009 on the SF homepage for the program "Alpenfestung, Leben im Reduit". A person had written a comment under a false name, which made less reference to the blog than to a private account. Because of this post, the Zug public prosecutor's office received a complaint against unknown persons for defamation and misuse of a telecommunications system.
The public prosecutor subsequently asked SF to provide it with the IP address of the author of the blog commentary. SF, however, invoked the protection of sources for media companies provided for in Article 28 of the Swiss Criminal Code. This provision allows regular media outlets to refuse to disclose the identity of informants to the prosecution authorities. In this case, however, the editors themselves must answer for any criminal content of the article - such as defamation or libel.
Great importance for media freedom
In their deliberations on Wednesday, the judges in Lausanne have now decided that media companies can in principle also invoke this protection of sources with regard to the authors of comments on blogs on their websites. The prerequisite is that the commentary contains a minimum amount of information. However, there are no high requirements to be met, especially as it is not always easy to distinguish between information and entertainment in certain forms of journalism nowadays.
In the specific case, at least part of the commentary was informative, which is why SF could invoke the protection of sources. Several judges emphasized that Wednesday's decision was of great importance for editorial secrecy and media freedom. It protects the watchdog function of the media in Switzerland.

Fathi Derder will devote himself to new professional projects, as La Télé announced on Tuesday. Born in 1970, the journalist was only hired as editor-in-chief in 2009 to launch the La Télé station for Vaud and Fribourg. He had previously been deputy editor-in-chief at Radio Suisse Romande.

Starmind is a crowdsourcing platform. Specifically: companies, organizations or private individuals place their questions and tasks on www.starmind.com. And a global community of experts and talents presents solutions in return for rewards and awards. Matter & Gretener and Fehr Advice & Partners will implement marketing and communication measures for the Zurich start-up. The agency announced on Tuesday that the first examples of this will soon be on display.

Previously, the program for iPhone, iPad and iPod cost CHF 6.60 per month. Current subscribers will be automatically switched to the premium offer, as Ringier writes in a press release. This will have even better picture quality and a recording function. In addition to the classic Blick app for iPhone, a Blick Super League app and an ice hockey app are also available from the Blick Group. Further apps are in development.