The new Swiss television award Teleboy Awards has selected the winners and losers of the past TV year. Six nominees in each of five categories competed for an award. The winners include Susanne Wille, Matthias Aebischer and the show "Giacobbo/Müller". The quiz show "Deal or No Deal," on the other hand, was voted the dumbest show of the year. Around 10,000 votes were cast in the poll on Teleboy.ch.
With 27 percent of the votes, "10 vor 10" host Susanne Wille was named "Most Exciting Host. Andrea Jansen, who will once again host "Music Star" starting in February, made it into second place. With just eight percent of the vote, chart-topper Francine Jordi was surprisingly far behind in last place.
Among the men, Matthias Aebischer can now call himself "most beautiful presenter. Aebischer, who has not been seen on screen at all since giving up his job as "Club" presenter, took first place with 17 percent, ahead of Marco Fritsche (21 percent), Sven Epiney (17 percent) and Franz Fischlin (17 percent). Reto Brennwald had no chance (7 percent).
With one-third of the votes, "Giacobbo/Müller" was voted "most spectacular show. In second place came the opera spectacle "La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof" (27 percent), with the SF soap "Tag und Nacht" (Day and Night) a long way behind in third place (14 percent). Only just three percent voted for the casting show "Supermodel" from station 3+.
With a 24 percent share of the vote, the public voted "Deal or No Deal" the "dumbest show," closely followed by the outsider, Pro Sieben Schweiz's lifestyle magazine "Faces TV" (22 percent). Euro 2008 - Das grosse Städteduell" received 19 percent of the votes. "The greatest Swiss hits" received a respectable 16 percent.
In 2008, Swiss TV viewers were most moved by Barack Obama's victory speech after his election as U.S. president: It received 42 percent of the votes in the "most moving TV moment" category. Alex Frei's tearful loss at the European Championship received 28 percent.

Simon Thiriet will take over the position of program director and thus the chairmanship of Radio Basel 1 from the beginning of February. Until now, Thiriet has been Head of Presentation at the station, which belongs to the Basler Zeitung group.
The management of Radio Basel 1 now consists of program director Simon Thiriet (chairman), editor-in-chief Benjamin Schmid, head of presentation André Millischer (previously deputy head of presentation) and head of music Busche Frei.
As part of the new management appointments, adjustments are to be made to the presentation, the station writes in a press release on Friday. The double moderation of the morning show is to be dispensed with in future, and the moderation at the weekend is to be concentrated on the hours with the most listeners.
The previous program director Silvana Imperiali has left the local radio station at her own request. According to a press release issued by Basler Zeitung Medien in December, she wanted to move on to new challenges after a very successful start-up phase.

In a new campaign, the environmental organization Greenpeace is drawing attention to the precarious situation of our oceans. Overfishing, pollution and climate change are endangering life in the world's oceans. Greenpeace is working on the ground with its ocean-going fleet to protect the oceans and their creatures. The goal is to place 40 percent of the world's oceans under protection.
In order to gain the support of the Swiss population for this goal, the organization has commissioned the Spinas/Gemperle agency to create a TV spot and several advertisements. They are to provide thematic support for the direct mail recently sent out for membership renewal.
In the spot "The Living Graphic," a whale skeleton swims by, its body consisting of only 1.7 percent meat. This is an example of how the stocks of many marine creatures have shrunk to threatening levels.
The ads are meant to illustrate the remaining population of blue whales, tuna and swordfish as an example for many other marine species threatened by overfishing, the Zurich-based agency said in a press release Friday.
Responsible at Greenpeace Switzerland: Marc Birbaum (Head of Fundraising), Katja Nispel (Project Management). Responsible at Spinas/Gemperle: Lorenz Spinas (CD), Stephan Huwiler (AD), Tom Malecha (Text), Michel Wild (Graphics), Fabienne Widmer (Consulting), Alexander Meier (Director), Vladimir Jankijevic (Technical Director Elefant Studios).

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People can call 1818 at any time to get the information they need. To dramatize this message, the Lowe agency, part of the Draftfcb/Lowe Group, has created four new commercials for TV and the Internet.
Visually, the wintry commercials allude to the glorious 70s of Swiss skiing. In terms of content, they continue the past1818 campaign - once again featuring the twins Achtzehn and Achtzehn, who find themselves in the craziest problem situations.
The new commercials can be seen on all Swiss television channels and on the 1818.com website from mid-January 2009.
> Spot ski lift
> Spot Gymnastics
> Spot snowball
> Spot bed

Around 84,000 people visited the Museum of Communication Bern last year. The museum is also very satisfied with the results of a visitor survey.
99 percent of visitors said that they rated the museum as "very good" or "good", the museum wrote in its annual media orientation on Thursday, according to SDA. Both the permanent and temporary exhibitions contributed to the success.
The museum is currently showing the temporary exhibition "Goodbye & Hello: In dialog with the afterlife". On October 15, this will be replaced by an exhibition on the subject of rumor.

The staff of Basler Zeitung have reacted with dismay to the decision by the Board of Directors to cut 22.5 jobs. The cost-cutting plans affect 25 out of 105 employees.
The meeting of 91 editorial staff members unanimously decided not to accept the social plan presented. They demanded more solidarity from the company management. It should negotiate "a fair social plan" with the employee representatives. One of the criticisms is that the social plan acceptable for early retirements contains "significantly worse" conditions for those made redundant than those of the last cost-cutting round five years ago. The editorial team appeals to the social responsibility of the Hagemann publishing family. The print labor market has deteriorated massively.
The editorial team is also concerned about the future of its paper: with a fifth fewer jobs, the current offering cannot be maintained. She is eager to hear the management's ideas on what the Basler Zeitung should look like in the future under the new conditions.
According to the decision of the Board of Directors, eleven of those affected would take early retirement, six would leave voluntarily and eight would be made redundant. In total, the editorial team - including layout and proofreading - currently has 105.6 full-time positions. Thanks to voluntary reductions in the editorial team, two redundancies were avoided on the eve of the Board of Directors' decision, the Baz editorial team also announced.
The media union Comedia also condemns the job cuts and fears for the quality of the paper. In a press release, it assures those affected of its support.

This year, for the first time, the nominations for the Swiss Film Prize Quartz will be made by a commission of the Federal Office of Culture (Bak), which is made up of members of the Swiss Film Academy. The commission nominates its favorites in new categories. The names of the nominated films and people will be announced on January 23 at the "Night of Nominations". The winners of the Film Prize will be announced on March 7 at the Lucerne Culture and Convention Center by Nicolas Bideau, Head of the Film Bak section, and Fredi Murer, President of the Swiss Film Academy.
The Nomination Commission is made up of nine members proposed by the Swiss Film Academy and elected by the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA). The commission consists of the following persons: Laurent Barbey (sound engineer), This Brunner (cinema director), Christian Davi (producer), Markus Fischer (director), Ivo Kummer (film festival director), Mariano Morace (film critic), Anita Schlegel (distributor), Nicolas Wadimoff (director) and Susanne-Marie Wrage (actress).

The Basel-based Oswald Siegfried Advertising Agency (OSW) has strengthened its team at the start of the new year. Zoe Maritz has joined the agency as a consultant, as detailed in a press release. She began her career at Startbahnwest at the beginning of 2005 and completed her extra-occupational training as a marketing communications planner. She soon became a junior consultant and headed her own team. During this time, she gained experience with clients such as Ovomaltine, Isostar, Caotina, Feldschlösschen Cardinal, Greenpeace and Hewlett Packard.
Nicole Senn has also joined the Basel agency. She will be working on graphic work, image concepts, corporate identity and website designs. After completing the preliminary course for visual communication at the School of Design in Zurich, Senn completed a one-year graphics internship at Bauman + Peyer in Olten, where she also completed a three-year apprenticeship as a graphic designer. She then worked as a freelancer for Dufry International in Basel, among others.

The news magazine Der Spiegel was able to increase its circulation under the new editors-in-chief Georg Mascolo and Matthias Müller. It had a circulation of 1.046 million copies in the fourth quarter of 2008, as reported in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Thursday. This is 3.9 percent more than in the previous year. The number of subscribers remained stable, while newsstand sales increased.
However, the weekly magazine's financial situation is not all rosy: According to the magazine Horizont, the new Spiegel CEO Ove Saffe told Faz that consolidated sales of 330 million euros are expected for 2008. That is a minus of 5.7 percent. Magazine sales (Spiegel and Manager-Magazin) fell by 6.5 percent to 239 million euros. The operating result will be down by a double-digit rate on the previous year (57 million euros). Advertising revenues fell by ten percent and this is likely to continue in the new year, according to Staffe. He wants to do business with spin-off magazines, starting with Spiegel Geschichte at the end of January. The Spiegel Wissen project will also continue, but no longer as a joint venture with Bertelsmann. According to Staffe, the Sunday operations will probably be discontinued. All areas of the publishing house would have to "counteract" costs.

The international beer brand Heineken is returning to its collaboration with the Zurich agency JWT+H+F after a five-year hiatus. The creative agency already advertised for the Dutch beer between 1999 and 2004. Among other things, it developed the well-known "Sounds good" campaign. Now the advertising agency from the Maag Areal is once again in charge of the advertising budget. The first works should be on display very soon.

Publicitas Radiotele, Tele Ticino's partner in the national market, has analyzed the station's performance over the past year and has drawn a positive balance: the market share of the only Swiss private station in Ticino has increased for the fourth consecutive year, according to a press release issued on Thursday. Tele Ticino has been able to further expand its position in the southern Swiss audience market. The average market share in 2008 amounted to 1.8 percent (2007: 1.6 percent, 2005: 1.2 percent).

Philippe Pfister will hand over the editorship of the commuter newspaper News in early summer this year. and move to Sonntagsblick as deputy editor-in-chief. This was announced by the media houses Ringier and Tamedia on Thursday.
The 45-year-old was already involved in the development and concept phase of News. From its launch in December 2007, he was responsible for managing the editorial team. At Sonntagsblick, he replaces Christian Dorer, who will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the Aargauer Zeitung and Mittelland Zeitung on February 1.
Previously, Pfister worked as head of news at the Sonntagszeitung, chief reporter at Blick, news reporter at the Luzerner Neusten Nachrichten and member of the chief editorial staff of the news magazine Facts. In 1994, he completed studies in general history and journalism at the University of Zurich.