Basilisk founder Heeb gets involved in the concession battle

 In Basel, too, a fierce battle is emerging for the radio licenses to be redistributed. Former Radio Basilisk founder Christian Heeb is now also in the race. His concept envisages a local radio station with a 50 percent share of spoken word and a round-the-clock editorial team. "RBB - Radio that offers more Basel" is the claim that Heeb presented at a media conference on Wednesday. With his concept, he is applying for one of the two concessions put out to tender in Basel for a local radio station with a performance mandate without fees. According to the license application, RBB is to be a radio station for a "responsible audience". The core task is the procurement, processing and dissemination of information, and the financing of the station, for which the former editor-in-chief of the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung Franz C. Widmer and former Ringier TV boss Hans Jürg "Fibo" Deutsch are also involved, is to be financed exclusively through advertising and sponsorship income. PubliGroupe, which is responsible for generating these revenues, holds a 25 percent stake in the parent company "Medien für Erwachsene".
The current license holders in the Basel region are Radio Basilik and Radio Basel 1. When asked by SDA, Basilisk program director Raphael Suter was unimpressed by Heeb's proposal: "We have a track record," he said dryly.