Neuchâtel media create joint multimedia platform
The two Neuchâtel daily newspapers L'Express and L'Impartial and the regional television station Canal Alpha are planning to set up a multimedia platform together. The website is due to be launched in spring 2008.
The two Neuchâtel daily newspapers L'Express and L'Impartial and the regional television station Canal Alpha are planning to set up a multimedia platform together. The website is to be launched in spring 2008. SNP, the publisher of the two daily newspapers, and Canal Alpha have signed a partnership agreement to this end, as they announced in a joint communiqué on Thursday.
The future service will be managed by its own editorial team, it added. In addition to illustrated online news texts, the site will also offer videos and interactive content. The entire editorial content of the partner media can also be accessed via the platform. The aim is to become an indispensable reference for regional content.
According to a press release, Canal Alpha will apply to the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) for the regional television license for the entire Jura Arc by 5 December. The SNP intends to support Canal Alpha in this application.
According to SDA, the Biel newspaper Journal du Jura, which is editorially linked to the Neuchâtel newspapers, is not involved in the collaboration. The publisher, the Gassmann Group, is pursuing its own multimedia strategy, together with its own regional broadcaster TeleBielingue. According to Marcel Geissbühler, Director of the Gassmann Group, there are currently no plans for collaboration between the two multimedia platforms.
The future service will be managed by its own editorial team, it added. In addition to illustrated online news texts, the site will also offer videos and interactive content. The entire editorial content of the partner media can also be accessed via the platform. The aim is to become an indispensable reference for regional content.
According to a press release, Canal Alpha will apply to the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) for the regional television license for the entire Jura Arc by 5 December. The SNP intends to support Canal Alpha in this application.
According to SDA, the Biel newspaper Journal du Jura, which is editorially linked to the Neuchâtel newspapers, is not involved in the collaboration. The publisher, the Gassmann Group, is pursuing its own multimedia strategy, together with its own regional broadcaster TeleBielingue. According to Marcel Geissbühler, Director of the Gassmann Group, there are currently no plans for collaboration between the two multimedia platforms.
