La Quotidiana, Switzerland's only Romansh-language daily newspaper, will continue to be published at its usual rhythm next year. Contrary to previous announcements, the Romansh news agency Agentura da Novitads Rumantscha ANR is now helping the struggling newspaper. The Board of Trustees announced this decision on Tuesday.
The newspaper, which has been published since 1997, is the main client of the Romansh news agency. The ANR was founded in 1996 with the aim of supporting the Romansh media in order to preserve and promote the Romansh language. As the agency is financed by public funds, the concept still requires the approval of the federal government and the canton of Graubünden. At the beginning of November, the Graubünden government spoke out against commissioning the ANR to publish the newspaper.
Südostschweiz publisher Hanspeter Lebrument announced in the summer that La Quotidiana would only be published once a week in 2009 if the daily newspaper could not be produced more cheaply. In order to reduce costs, the editorial teams of ANR and La Quotidiana are now to move closer together and utilize synergies. The pool comprises 870 full-time equivalents, which are financed by ANR. The Südostschweiz Media Group in Chur provides the editor-in-chief and the staff for the production of the daily newspaper, which has a circulation of around 5500 copies.

On Tuesday, media entrepreneur Leo Kirch sued Deutsche Bank for 3.5 billion euros in damages for the bankruptcy of his group of companies in one of the largest lawsuits in German economic history. However, on the first day of the trial, the Munich Regional Court rejected part of the claim by default, as Kirch's lawyers had not submitted any motions for part of the claims at the start of the trial.
Kirch accuses Deutsche Bank that his insolvency in 2002 was triggered by a statement made by former Deutsche Bank CEO Rolf Breuer. Breuer had questioned Kirch's creditworthiness in an interview a few months before the bankruptcy.
However, Deutsche Bank reiterated that there was no causal link between Breuer's comments and the insolvency. Kirch's company had already been over-indebted before the interview in February 2002. Kirch and Breuer did not appear in court and were represented by lawyers. After several hours of hearings, the court set a date for March 10, 2009.
Kirch used to be one of the most powerful media entrepreneurs in Germany, having built up a group of companies with around 10,000 employees. Kirch Media, which included the television stations Pro Sieben, Sat.1 and N24, was at the heart of the group. The collapse of the group was one of the biggest economic bankruptcies in Germany.

The approximately 1600 Sunrise employees will soon be subject to a collective labor agreement (CLA). The telecoms provider, the communications union and the company's employee representatives began negotiations on Monday. This was announced by the social partners on Tuesday, according to SDA. This is the first time Sunrise has negotiated a CLA.
The communications union saw the move as a "strong and very positive signal for the entire telecommunications industry", as stated in a press release. According to Sunrise CEO Christoph Brand, by entering into negotiations Sunrise is reaffirming that the company values the tradition of social partnership. The social partners intend to set the timetable for the negotiations in the coming weeks.

UBS launches a Switzerland-wide image campaign to strengthen the trust of its clients. The marketing offensive will be launched exactly one day before the Annual General Meeting. According to Cash, the series of advertisements consists of full-page advertisements featuring satisfied UBS clients who are promoting the financial institution with testimonials. The advertising campaign will not show UBS logos or advertise services or products, Head of Communications Michael Willi told Cash. The advertising campaign to promote trust starts on Wednesday and will run for one to three months.

Various works by Swiss agencies have made it onto the shortlist for the Eurobest Awards. The winners will be announced on December 3.
The Y&R Group has made it onto the Eurobest Awards shortlist with 15 works. Nominated is the Free Internet Campaigns for Sunrise, Help for Tibet for Tibetan Youth Association as well as eight works for the Sunday newspaper and two for Harley Davidson.
With ten works, the Ruf Lanz agency made it into the final of the Eurobest Awards. In the Direct category with the DM campaign "Bad News, you've won a pitch" for Freelanceportal.ch and with "Fictitious construction projects" for Ricardo.ch. The same work is also nominated in the Promo category. In the Media category, the guerrilla campaign "Giant bowls" for Hiltl-Kochatelie is a finalist. In the Outdoor and Print categories, the "Farmers wife" subject for Airport Outlet and the "Engineers recruting" and "Computer specialists recruiting" subjects for McKinsey & Company are in the final.
The Publicis agency is in the final of the advertising festival with 13 works. Whether the works for Chocolat Frey, Zurich Financial Services, Schauspielschule Zürich, L'Oreal/Garnier, Art Poster Gallery and Xeroprint will win precious metal will become clear at the beginning of December.

On Thursday, November 20, 2008, this year's film awards of the cities of Zurich and Winterthur as well as the success awards of the Filmstiftung Zürich "Succès Zürich" were presented at the Theater Winterthur. The award ceremony took place within the framework of the Cadrage event. The awards went to the three young directors Oliver Rihs, Simon Nagel and Carmen Stadler.
The three filmmakers were selected in advance by the KSB/SJ agency together with the Filmstiftung from a pre-selection of thirteen young directors. The aim was to realize the agency's concept of an image advertisement for the foundation itself as well as for "good film". The directors developed their film stories and also directed them themselves. The assignment was to quote a film genre they had chosen themselves, and to use the film story to lead up to a clichéd film conclusion, but to resolve the film at the end with a punch and a word in a way that one would not have expected.
The result is three extremely independent, cinematic gems: "Love" by Oliver Rihs, "Spiel" by Simon Nagel and "Schnee" by Carmen Stadler. The advertising agency KSB/SJ, Condor Pictures, Egli Film as well as helpers who supported the project with words and deeds collaborated on the film projects. The films were financially supported by Raiffeisen Banks Zurich, Winterthur and Thalwil. The three films can now be seen in cinemas throughout German-speaking Switzerland.

>To the Spot Love
>To the spot game
>To the spot snow

The ZFS Zurich Film Foundation was founded in 2004 thanks to the approval of the corresponding municipal referendum bill. At that time, the advertising agency KSB/SJ designed the "Yes to Film" advertisement. Since then, the foundation has been promoting "professional, high-quality filmmaking," the agency wrote in a media release on Sunday. The foundation mainly provides financial support for the development and production of feature films, short films, animated films as well as cinema documentaries.
Responsible at ZFS Zurich Film Foundation: Daniel Waser (Managing Director). Responsible at KSB/SJ: Flo Wacker, Uwe Schlupp (CD), Marion Lim (text), Christian Kahl (AD), Nick Schoberth (consulting manager), Andrea Walker (consulting). Responsible for the production: Condor Pictures (production), Jr. Antoine Monot, Kristian Widmer Kristian (Producers), Laura Daniel (Project Management Postproduction), Oliver Rihs (Direction Film Love), Simon Nagel (Direction Film Spiel), Carmen Stadler (Direction Film Schnee), Filip Zumbrunn (Director of Photography), Sven Zahn (Production Management), Egli Film (Postproduction), Michael Egli, Yvonne Marti Hassler (Management Egli Film), Thomas-André Winiger (Inhouse Producing), Jürgen Kupka (Telecine Artist/Senior Colorist), Urs Beuter (Equipment), Thomas Gassmann (Sound), Marcel Ramsay (Editing/Cut), Ramon Orza (Composer/Sound Designer Film Love), Matthias Frey (Composer Film Spiel), Tschaikowski (Music Film Schnee), Jingle Jungle, Gregor Rosenberger (Sound), Bruno Cathomas, Esther Kreis, Tozim Madzima (Cast Film Love), Lora Bommer (Cast Film Spiel), Ximena Strub Cast Film Schnee).

Thomas Schöb is leaving Ruf Lanz at the end of the year. Schöb worked for the advertising agency for a total of seven years. Most recently, he was employed as a concept developer and copywriter and was a member of the management team. Schöb will be working as a freelancer again, according to a press release issued on Monday.

The Ron Orp's Mail newsletter is now also being published in New York. The first issue will be sent out on November 27, according to a press release issued on Monday. The New York edition will be published weekly on Thursday mornings and will be produced locally by friends of Ron Orp.
The first issue of the e-mail newsletter was published in Zurich on April 30, 2004. Since then, the service has been continuously expanded to new cities. At the end of 2008, there were eleven Ron Orp editions in ten cities: Zurich, Basel, Bern, Lucerne, Winterthur, St. Gallen, Vienna, Berlin, Munich and New York. In Zurich, a weekly edition in English is published in addition to the daily newsletter.

When the Beromünster medium wave transmitter is switched off on December 28, the DRS Musikwelle station can only be heard via Dab, cable, satellite or the Internet. Dab? Cable? Satellite? Internet? Huh? That's what some loyal Musikwelle fans might say when confronted with these terms. But the folk music scene can breathe a sigh of relief, no one will have to do without Heimat on the radio in future. The station is launching a major listener campaign and will be visiting its listeners at home for two weeks in December and January to advise them personally on all reception issues - operating a digital radio, the Internet or a DAB device will be child's play after the consultant's visit. And DRS Musikwelle will continue to fill the good parlors with home.
Anyone who would like personal advice can call the radio telephone on 0848 80 80 80 (local rate) or send an e-mail ([email protected]) can order a consultant to come to your home free of charge.

The Prix Radiomagazin 2008 goes to DRS 3 music editor Urs Musfeld. The 56-year-old received the award on Monday evening at Zurich's Moods for his competent and attractive reporting on current pop events.
In his music programs, Musfeld conveys the big picture and makes obvious but also surprising references and cross-connections audible, writes the magazine Radiomagazin in a statement. The music editor is not a "note encyclopedia", but sees "despite the many trees always also the forest".
Urs Musfeld has been music editor at DRS 3 for 25 years. Today, the Basel native puts together the music program for the program "Sounds! ", formerly also that of "CH- Special" and the now defunct program "Sounds!-Surprise".
The Prix Radiomagazin is endowed with 5000 Swiss francs. According to SDA, the magazine Radiomagazin honors people who have made a special contribution to quality in the radio and audio sector.

Guido Balmer will become Deputy Head of Information at the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) at the beginning of March 2009. According to SDA, he replaces Sascha Hardegger, who has served as the department's deputy head of information since fall 2005. Hardegger will join Swiss Air-Rescue Rega as Head of Communications on February 1, 2009.
Guido Balmer has been Deputy Head of the Media Service at the Federal Office of Police since June 2003. He was previously deputy head of information at the Fortress Guard Corps. Balmer gained journalistic experience at the SDA and as editor-in-chief of the Limmattaler Tagblatt.