Ringier Print Zofingen has violated the Co-Determination Act by outsourcing its logistics and cleaning operations. On Wednesday, the Zofingen Labor Court upheld a complaint by the Comedia media union. In January 2007, the company had announced that it would outsource its logistics, with 47 employees, and the ten part-time employees in building cleaning to external companies. 
According to the labor court, Ringier Print had not complied with the rights of the staff committee in terms of the duty to consult, the union announced after the hearing. The right to consultation encompasses more than mere information.
According to Comedia, it has repeatedly drawn the attention of Ringier's management to this grievance and demanded negotiations and consultations.
Ringier is surprised by the ruling. The company is waiting for the written reasons and will then consider whether to appeal the ruling to the next instance, according to company spokesman Marco Castellaneta in response to an inquiry from Werbewoche.

 
Felix Merz will take over the role of Editorial Director at Tele Ostschweiz from mid-June. The 32-year-old can look back on several years of experience in electronic media in Eastern Switzerland. He previously worked as a producer at Tele Ostschweiz. He is the youngest of the three sons of Federal Councillor Hans-Rudolf Merz.  
Merz replaces Claudio Agustoni, who has decided to take on a new challenge at the PR agency Trimedia after almost seven years at Tele Ostschweiz. Agustoni has headed the editorial team at Tele Ostschweiz since 2003 and, among other things, implemented a program relaunch and carried out important preparatory work for the station's license application, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.
The management team will be complemented by Daniel Sager, who will take on the role of program coordinator. The 43-year-old has worked at Radio Aktuell and as a producer at Videcom, among others. As program coordinator, Sager will be responsible for program development and planning at Tele Ostschweiz.
 
Tele Ostschweiz is owned by St. Galler Tagblatt AG. The broadcaster has applied to the federal government for a license for the broadcasting area of Eastern Switzerland. Competitor Tele Top is also fighting for the same license. Only one license will be awarded.
 
 

 After two years of preparation for 23 days of TV football, the time will soon come: Swiss television will accompany Euro 08 with various broadcast formats. On the opening day, Saturday, June 7, SF will report live for 17 hours, as reported by SDA on Wednesday. The opening match between Switzerland and the Czech Republic will be embedded in the live broadcast. On the day before the opening, SF will broadcast the program "Euro 2008 - A dream comes true" with Rainer Maria Salzgeber. Until the start of the tournament, "Euro 2008 - Das Magazin" will be broadcast daily on SF 2 at 10.20 pm. This program will be presented by Matthias Hüppi and Alain Sutter. In the "Football Coretto" section, comedian Massimo Rocchi explains the rules of football.
From June 8, SF will be broadcasting "Euro 2008 - Am Mittag". Together with experts and guests, Franz Fischlin and Regula Spähni will take a look at the events of the previous evening. They will also report on the current traffic situation.
The 31 matches will be broadcast live by Swiss television, in some cases on two channels (SF 2 and SF info) so that the parallel matches can also be shown. Commentating on the matches will be Bernard Turnheer (all Swiss matches and the final in Vienna), Dani Wyler, Dani Kern and Sascha Ruefer. They will be supported by Volker Finke, Toni Polster, Jörg Stiel and Rolf Fringer.

 The advertising marketer Publisuisse is no longer selling advertising time to the German company Inside Media for the time being. This company produces programs called "Medizin aktuell" or "Wirtschaft aktuell", which are broadcast by TV stations as part of the advertising blocks. However, Der Bund reported on Wednesday that many potential customers apparently had the impression that the program was part of the editorial section. Although the faxed confirmation of the appointment mentions "information advertising", the conditions seem unclear for potential customers. Publisuisse has therefore ended its collaboration with Inside Media for the time being after two years, as Deputy Director Othmar Stadelmann told Der Bund. He said that some customers felt that the offer was a "deceptive package". The marketer has submitted conditions to the German company's lawyer under which a continuation would be possible - but Stadelmann does not expect an agreement to be reached. Publisuisse had received various inquiries from unsettled companies that had been contacted by Inside Media. "They didn't realize that it was about a normal TV commercial," Peter Kaufmann from Publisuisse told Werbewoche. Since Inside Media also produces contributions from the medical sector, legally delicate situations cannot be ruled out. However, Inside Media is familiar with the legal framework for advertising remedies and medical treatments on television, said Kaufmann.
No concrete reaction from Inside Media
Inside Media is currently the only company to which Publisuisse sells advertising time for remarketing. "If a Swiss agency approached us with this request, we would of course look into it," Kaufmann continued. So far, however, this question has not arisen. No concrete response has yet been received from Inside Media following the announcement that Publisuisse would not be accepting any further orders for the time being.
The German company was also reluctant to provide information to the federal government: after repeated inquiries, the managing director in Aschaffenburg sent a lawyer to say that no questions would be answered.

 
American journalist Gregory Katz won the inaugural «Living Zürich Media Award 2008.» Second place went to Anne Fournier, the Zurich correspondent for *Le Temps*. Third place went to Elvira D’Ippoliti of Italy.Katz, 55, received 20,000 euros for his article «Out of the Blue,» as reported by the SDA. In it, he describes Zurich as ’Europe’s little secret«: compact, perfectly proportioned, and beautiful. The article was published in American Way Magazine on April 1, 2007.
Anne Fournier, from French-speaking Switzerland, received 3,000 euros for her article ’Zurich: Paradise and High-End Souk of Contemporary Art.« Her piece on the Zurich art scene appeared in *Le Temps* on November 7. Elvira D’Ippoliti from Rome also received 3,000 euros. Her article »Zurigo: La sinfonia della Città’ appeared in Terre d’Europa on February 15, 2008.
A total of 59 media professionals from eleven countries submitted entries. Anyone who had produced a print, TV, radio, online, or photo piece related to Zurich’s Euro 08 theme, «We Live Zurich,» was eligible to participate. The award was launched by the City of Zurich and Zurich Tourism (see
). In addition to Chairman Claudius Seidel, arts and culture editor of the *Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung*, the jury also included Jürg Ramspeck, Roger Schawinski, Elmar Ledergerber, and tourism director Frank Bumann.

 The Opening Night of the Ewz.Selection exhibition will take place next Friday. At the same time, the Ewz.Selection Award for the best photographic work of 2007, four other category prizes and the Audience Award will be presented. The public can still vote for the winner of the Audience Award until Thursday at Ewzselection.ch/publikumspreis.html
choose. The Opening Night will also celebrate the tenth anniversary of the photo exhibition and Swiss photography. Patrick Frey will host the program.

 
Anyone wondering what is behind the poster with the two Viva VJs Linda Gwerder and Jubaira Bachmann now has the answer: the music channel is looking for a male VJ. Viva is looking for a man between the ages of 20 and 25, according to a press release. From September, he is to take over the moderation alongside the two ladies and Robin Rehmann. The ideal candidate would be eloquent, a music fan and interested in sport, games and new media. Interested parties can apply now until June 20. The casting will be filmed and broadcast for the first time on Viva in July, and the posters can be seen throughout German-speaking Switzerland. The motif was taken by photographer Bruno Barbazan in Paris.

 A dispute over the billion-euro takeover of Clear Channel has been simmering for some time and has now been resolved: the US media group reached an agreement with the investment firms Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital as well as the banks involved on new purchase conditions. The American media company also owns the Swiss outdoor advertising company Clear Channel Outdoor. About a year ago, the parent company Clear Channel agreed to an approximately 20 billion dollar takeover by the investment companies. However, as the situation on the financial markets deteriorated dramatically as a result of the mortgage crisis, differences arose with the lenders. The holding companies filed lawsuits against the banks, including Credit Suisse, in New York and Texas.
The court proceedings have now been discontinued. The agreement stipulates that the financial investors will pay 36 dollars for each Clear Channel share instead of the 39.20 dollars stipulated in the previous agreement. This corresponds to a total price of 17.9 billion dollars. Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays said that the new agreement would be submitted to shareholders for approval in late summer. The transaction should be completed in the third quarter.

 
The event sector also seems to be doing something about climate protection. The Dialogday'08 trend conference, which is to be held by Pinkup Dialogmarketing as a climate-neutral event, intends to play a pioneering role here. According to the press release, climate-neutral means that the emissions generated by the event will be offset elsewhere - in this case in favor of a wind power project in India. This commitment is reflected in the conference theme "Lohas 2.0". The abbreviation stands for "Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability" and refers to the healthy, sustainable and yet pleasure-oriented lifestyle of the so-called neo-ecos.

 
The Baden-based agency Mach Corporate & Werbung has won the budget of the Sfb Education Center in a pitch. According to the agency's press release, the decisive factors for success were the originality and diversity of the ideas. The contract includes communication measures in the areas of claim development, advertising, cinema, radio and below-the-line. The Sfb Education Center is a private educational institution for technology and management based in Dietikon with training centers in the most important Swiss cities. Around 5000 graduates attend Sfb courses every year.

 
Hesskiss is now working for the T-shirt brand Arcus and the Basel art fair Scope. Arcus was founded in 2000 by the two Swiss snowboard pros Nicolas Müller and Frederik Kalbermatten and began with a simple T-shirt line. Today, two large collections are sold around the globe. Hesskiss has now taken over part of the design for the spring 2009 collection and will build up the brand over the coming years, as the press release explains. Scope aims to transform the public from passive spectators into active consumers of art. This goal is pursued by inviting young, as yet unknown artists, galleries and performances from various parts of the world. Hesskiss is supporting Scope with various measures for its second appearance in Basel at the beginning of June 2008.

 Publicitas and Anzeiger Region Bern (ARB) are opening a new sales and promotion location at Bern railroad station. Until recently, the chosen premises were occupied by another press product: in the former customer counter of the newspaper Der Bund, Publicitas is implementing a new, comprehensive service concept with a new look for the first time. In addition to advice and the sale of advertisements, there is also an advance ticket sales point, the ARB store and a press store with a reading corner. The new point of sale will open on May 15, around two weeks before the reopening of the new station square in Bern. The branch manager of P-Bern is Andreas Spycher. As Thomas Bargetzi, CEO Sales Switzerland at Publicitas, explains in the press release, the marketer wants to continue investing in customer proximity. It is no coincidence that a former "publisher's counter" is the first branch to display the new logo. The counters are to be successively converted into advisory locations. "Where we can implement joint projects with our publishing partners, we are happy to do so, because it helps the interests of both partners," says Bargetzi.