The Grisons local radio station Radio Grischa has revised and refreshed its program. From Wednesday, the Chur-based radio station will be broadcasting regional news every hour, as well as two hours of information a day, in which Romansh will be given greater emphasis. Services such as weather, traffic reports and speed cameras will also be added, the SDA news agency reported on Monday. Another new feature is the "Grischa-Lüüt" program, in which people from Graubünden have their say every Sunday. A tourism program and a commentary on the week have also been announced. The sound is also new: according to the radio producers, it is now "more contemporary, of higher quality and more Graubünden". In addition, the Graubünden actors Tonia Maria Zindel and Andrea Zogg have been recruited as station voices. 

The Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) confiscated the television set during an unannounced house search, according to a statement from SDA. The device should not have been confiscated. In May, OFCOM carried out a search at the home of a man who had not registered his television set with the Billag fee collection agency. An operational television was found. This was confiscated as evidence, but left with the owner.
The man appealed to the Federal Criminal Court, which has now partially ruled in his favor. The confiscation of the TV set was disproportionate. A visual inspection and a record of the presence of the device were sufficient evidence. As the person concerned had not objected to the content or form of the record, it was not clear why the television set had to be made available as evidence, the court ruled. The confiscation should be revoked.

Founded a year ago, the Lucerne-based full-service advertising agency Rocket - Powerful Advertising has got off to a successful start. Prior to their merger, the three partners David Bächtold, Beat Niggli and Mathias Schürmann were all managing directors of individual companies in the fields of marketing, graphic design, Internet and multimedia. Thanks to this symbiosis, the young company has been able to acquire new clients and take on new projects.

This fall, Rocket prevailed against several agencies in three competition presentations. The new system furniture brand Formfarm and the LKH association commissioned the Lucerne-based company to create the new corporate design. Rocket is creating the signage and information system for the new Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt.

The Zurich advertising agency Jung von Matt/Limmat is responsible for the new advertising presence of the airline Swiss. And the new campaign has made Swiss CEO Christoph Franz happy: "Now we finally have advertising that suits us," he explains to Schweizer Illustrierte. The campaign conveys the values that the airline Swiss stands for - a sense of home, hospitality and quality. The slogan of the advertising campaign is "Swiss Made" and is intended to appear more modest and reserved. One element of the campaign is a new TV and advertising film. People in 1977, wallowing in wanderlust to the music track Campari Soda.

The Zurich agency Weber Harbeke has combined a magazine and a catalog for the Migros customer magazine Più. The ninth edition of the resulting "Magalog" is dedicated entirely to Christmas preparations. In addition to an overview of the Migros Christmas range, the customer magazine contains recipes for the holiday menu, a wish book and the first edition of a Christmas story. The new Più is distributed free of charge in all Migros stores with the relevant product range and appears as a supplement in the weekly and monthly press in German, French and Italian-speaking Switzerland as well as in a partial edition of Migros magazine. 

Together with the Switzerland Travel Center (STC), SBB has added an online travel agency to its range of services. The CMS platform was implemented by the Zurich-based Internet service provider Unic Internet Solutions, which is also responsible for hosting. Since the end of October, rail and air travel, hotels and other services can be individually put together into a package online on the new portal. The content is published in German, French, Italian and English.

Victor Breu is stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Finanz und Wirtschaft at the end of October 2006. As the Tamedia publishing house announced on Monday, Breu is leaving the company for personal reasons and at his own request. The 49-year-old Breu had been editor-in-chief since 2005. He has made a significant contribution to the positive development of Finanz und Wirtschaft, Tamedia announced. Deputy Editor-in-Chief Peter Schuppli and Publishing Director Martin Coninx will take over until a successor is found. Schuppli will primarily take care of editorial matters, while Coninx will continue to be responsible for publishing activities.

David Moginier is now editor-in-chief of the regional online editorial team at Edipresse. He is responsible for the creation and support of the new platforms Tdg.ch and 24heures.ch. In his new role, the 46-year-old heads a team of around 20 people, mainly from the editorial teams of the two daily newspapers. The new online structure will come into force at the beginning of 2007 and is intended to provide readers with even more information, as detailed in a press release. Central to this are topicality, a specifically female environment, an interactive exchange with readers and a sophisticated service. Moginier was previously Deputy Editor-in-Chief of 24 Heures. Prior to that, he was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of L'Hebdo and Editor-in-Chief of Matin.

Every year, the Art Directors Club (ADC) transforms a newspaper into a world exclusive. Once again this year, the ADC festival newspaper is published entirely in the look of a renowned press title, but full of irony and satire, as the communiqué states. All of the content comes from the pens of the country's leading creatives: By ADC members under the editorship of Stefan Ehrler of SFLB. Ringier's Abendzeitung heute publishing house and editorial team are responsible for design, production and printing. Ringier is also sponsoring the ADC festival newspaper. Everyone is also eagerly awaiting the results of this year's ADC judging, which are also produced by Ringier and enclosed with the festival newspaper meute. After the gala on January 28, 2007, 14,000 copies of meute will be distributed to a wide range of marketing and advertising circles and enclosed with the trade publications Persönlich and Werbewoche.

Neue Schule Zürich has commissioned the advertising agency Matter & Gretener with a series of communication tasks. First of all, the Zurich creative minds are to advertise the state-recognized private school's secondary school A, which prepares students for grammar school or a vocational apprenticeship with a vocational baccalaureate. According to a media communiqué, the corresponding advertisements should be on display soon.

"Bonus for everyone!" is the slogan of the new ZVV campaign from Publicis. The ZVV Bonus Pass will help employees of larger companies to travel to work more cheaply in future. In addition to posters and advertisements, the communication package also includes a mailing. The Publicis subsidiary Fisch.Meier is responsible for this. The dialog specialists supply larger companies with a box of chocolate. According to a press release, this sweet package is intended to offer a small foretaste of the ZVV Bonus Pass. 

Everyone knows that the European East is cheap. This applies just as much to imported goods as it does to labor, to vacation trips, and - as wicked tongues claim - also to the women there, or at least to their blond hair. Now the publishing industry has also discovered this generalization and, in the course of globalization, has also concocted a lively strategy for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The strategy is to relocate the entire online editorial department to Prague. Because apparently the German language is cheaper there, too.
 
Cheaper, but perhaps not trustworthy after all. Because in the East, people are known to rely on fakes. And so the project was called off in September after ten journalists had already been recruited and put through their paces for a week in Munich. Now the SonntagsZeitung is asking questions about the reasons for the failure of the outsourcing plans. Was it for image reasons? Was the quality of the applicants not sufficient? The costs could hardly have been the killer argument, because the wage level of the journalists' guild in Prague is not even half as high as that in Germany, three hours away by car. Did they even back down from breaking a taboo? But perhaps the "leading Internet portal among national newspapers" simply did not want to take responsibility for the fact that the word "national" would have had to be reconsidered in the next Duden revision of the German language.