The new management team thus includes Alexander Haldemann, André Stauffer, Bruno Schmidt and Simon Neuner. With this step, the agency wants to intensify the cooperation between Switzerland and the USA as well as to better serve international clients at its locations in Zurich, Beijing, Berlin and San Francisco. Meta Design San Francisco was founded in 1992 and works with clients such as Adobe, Apple, Four Seasons Hotels, Intel, Palm, Ralph Lauren, Symantec, Xerox and Yahoo.

Caption (from left to right:): Alexander Haldemann, André Stauffer, Simon Neuner and Bruno Schmidt.

Schweizer Optiker is published by LZ Fachverlag and has the Q-Publikation seal of approval. The trade journal is published eleven times a year with a print run of 2,400 copies and a Wemf-certified circulation of 1,635 copies respectively.

The year-on-year increase was mainly due to high-profile football broadcasts (World Cup qualifiers, Champions League, Euro League) and successful Saturday evening shows ("Benissimo", "Happy Day", "Wetten, dass...?"). With the exception of daytime (minus 0.2 percentage points), SF increased in all time periods: the evening before by 0.3 percentage points, the main evening by 1.4 percentage points, the late evening by 1.5 percentage points and the nighttime by 2.3 percentage points. Compared to the 2008 annual average - with high values thanks to the Olympic Games and the European Football Championship - SF is down by 1.0 percentage points on average from January to October 2009.

User growth for online platform
Sf.tv recorded an average of 258,100 visits per day in October 2009, an increase of 36% compared to the same month last year. The most-visited service is the "SF Meteo" platform with 76,800 visits per day, followed by "SF Sport" with 62,700 visits per day. Video visits almost doubled compared to the same month last year: on average, internet users watched 144,000 videos a day in October 2009. In addition, there were 9,500 SF video views per day via YouTube. The number of podcast downloads amounted to 24,300 per day.

According to a press release issued by SRG on Monday, the selection committee had 32 projects to choose from. It opted for "Die Reise zum sichersten Ort der Erde" by Edgar Hagen (CHF 15,000), "Schneeweisschen & Rosenrot" by Mirjam von Arx (CHF 15,000) and "Vaters Garten" by Peter Liechti (CHF 10,000).

The best graduates, with the rating "outstanding achievement" (summa cum laude), are Elisabeth Frey, Communications Manager at Haworth Switzerland, and Manuela Gili Sidler, who works as a freelance journalist. The Dipl. Texter/in Schreibszene Schweiz course lasts one year and is held in Zurich and Bern. The first module can be completed in Basel and Lucerne. Text professionals Paul Girard from Girardtext and Stefan Meier, alias Direktmeier, have been appointed to head the examination board. The next course starts in Bern in February 2010.

In his last position, Nico Podgorny was Head of Online Marketing and a member of the Executive Board at Swissclick. In this role, he was responsible for the development and expansion of Swissclick iSolutions for five years and looked after clients such as CSS Krankenkasse, Toyota Switzerland, Interhome, Jelmoli Visa Bonus Card, Cablecom, Credit Suisse and Marionnaud Parfumeries in the area of online marketing.

The online marketing team (from left to right): Jasmin Kaltenegger (AD, Multi-Media Designer), Nico Podgorny (Director Online Marketing), Céline Grossenbacher (Account Manager).

Solidarity among journalists led to the result, said Dominique Diserens, Central Secretary of the Impressum media union, in a statement issued by Impressum on Friday. Between 30 and 40 people had offered to reduce their workload or even leave voluntarily. According to SDA, Edipresse confirmed the information provided by Impressum. The result was achieved thanks to the willingness to engage in dialog, the coordination of the editorial teams and the Impressum trade union, it said. Specifically, the Tribune de Genève can dispense with four of the five planned redundancies, Le Matin with three of six and 24 Heures with four of eleven. nOne job has been saved at the other Edipresse titles. According to Diserens, the redundancies will be announced at the beginning of next week.
Edipresse announced on October 9 that it would be cutting 100 full-time jobs, 30 in the editorial offices, 50 in the printing plant in Bussigny and 20 in technical services. Negotiations were still underway on Friday for the jobs outside the editorial offices.

In a written interview with the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper on Saturday, the media minister explained that the main aim of the law is to ensure that independent broadcasters can also make radio. Of course, this would not work if they immediately resold their license. But some media today are purely commercial enterprises. If the big money is tempting, some revolutionary pioneers are happy to have their rebellious spirit of optimism gilded; this is not only the case with the media, Leuenberger is quoted as saying by the news agency SDA. In his opinion, independent organizers should be given preference over powerful media conglomerates in order to prevent a possible abuse of power. However, parliament wanted it differently: The independent would only be given preference if the offer was equivalent. Leuenberger believes that one has to ask whether the law needs to be changed again: "But that never happens quickly, especially not with laws on the media.
Positive sides too
When he heard about the concession deal, the saying "money makes the world go round" went through his mind. On the positive side, however, he said that the 60 employees of Radio Energy Zurich would not lose their jobs and that the many listeners who had campaigned would be able to keep their favorite station. According to Leuenberger, Radio Energy Zurich's program must guarantee the same information services as those formulated in Giuseppe Scaglione's application for RMC Züri. The license transfer will only be approved if this examination is positive. And then the quality of the information broadcasts will be regularly reviewed.
Leuenberger's Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (Uvek) has already approved the transfer of licenses several times. This year, for example, in Basel and Geneva and in 2007 in Zurich for Radio Tropic on Roger Schawinski's Radio 1.
Ringier announced on Friday that it had reached agreement with Giuseppe Scaglione on the deal and that the transfer application had been submitted to DETEC. Scaglione is relinquishing his FM license for the greater Zurich area. This could mean that Energy, whose license for the Zurich/Glarus area expires at the end of 2009
will continue to broadcast on the same frequency without interruption. Scaglione now only operates Jugenseder Radio 105.

Several sources are said to have confirmed to the business newspaper that employees of the Californian computer manufacturer are currently peddling to US broadcasters in order to win them as partners for a planned subscription payment model for TV programs. The Sonntagszeitung writes this in its current edition. Cablecom would welcome Apple's possible entry into the Swiss market. The company believes in diversity and free choice, said spokeswoman Deborah Bucher when asked by the Sonntagszeitung. Swisscom did not wish to comment on the rumors.

As EPP President Heiner Studer confirmed to the Sonntag newspaper, the party will submit an urgent question in the November session. As is already the case in Germany, the album should no longer be accessible to young people - in our neighboring country, the album may neither be exhibited nor advertised. The argument is that the cover shows "depictions of sadomasochistic practices that are harmful to minors". The single with the scandalous title "Pussy" also encourages "unprotected sexual intercourse in times of Aids". The EVP Switzerland agrees with this argument. Whether the spread of the HIV virus and the number of young sadomasochistic corpses can be curbed by a ban on Rammstein remains to be seen - if the party's demand falls on sympathetic ears in the November session.

The Corpus Delicti:

To this end, the SPK intends to submit a proposal to the Committee for Transport and Telecommunications (KVF) for the revision of postal legislation, as reported by the parliamentary services on Friday according to SDA. However, it is important that the effectiveness of the postal tax reduction is reviewed and alternative means of press promotion are sought. The SPK wants to instruct the Federal Council to draw up a corresponding report with a commission postulate.

Aktion Medienfreiheit is delighted with the agreement between Radio Energy and Radio Monte Carlo, according to a press release. This agreement speaks for the sense of responsibility and prudence of the private broadcasters. It is gratifying that the 60 or so jobs at Radio Energy have been saved and that listeners can continue to count on their station. "Conversely, this situation relentlessly demonstrates the considerable shortcomings of the new RTVA. The awarding of licenses by state authorities is wrong in terms of regulatory and media policy, as documented by various wrong decisions in Suisse Romande, Central Switzerland and the Zurich area. The state is overburdened with this task."

"Anyone who wants to make radio should be able to do so"
From a liberal point of view, but also in terms of state policy, it is wrong for state authorities to decide which broadcaster may or should broadcast which program in which region. The fact that the programs are subsequently controlled and evaluated by the state is also not expedient. "Entrepreneurs who want to make radio should be able to do so. For this reason, Aktion Medienfreiheit has long been campaigning for a better supply of FM frequencies for private broadcasters. The Campaign for Media Freedom will campaign vigorously and with conviction for a liberal media regime and the partial revision of the RTVA. "