Editorial collaboration between Radio Basel and Radio 24
Radio 24 and Radio Basel are collaborating on editorial content. The two private broadcasters announced jointly on Tuesday that they plan to exchange reports. Among other things, a Radio 24 correspondent based at the Federal Parliament in Bern will also report on the Basel region from there in the future.
Radio Basel, once founded as Baselbieter Radio Raurach, could also take over business contributions from Sonntagszeitung editor-in-chief Martin Spieler. Like Radio 24, the Sonntagszeitung belongs to the Tamedia Group. The cooperation is not a cost-cutting exercise, said Radio Basel boss Christian Heeb when asked by the news agency SDA, but rather an "optimization": the cooperation between the two stations was an obvious choice. However, the exact modalities were not disclosed. According to a Radio 24 spokesperson, contributions from her station are also offered to other stations throughout Switzerland. Some made use of this, at standardized rates.
When Radio Basel was relaunched in the fall of 2009 following the takeover by Heeb, it had an editorial Cooperation with Zurich Radio 1 of the former Radio 24 founder Roger Schawinski. This cooperation is continuing, although it has been scaled back somewhat, according to Radio Basel.
Heeb, for his part, once co-founded Basel's first local radio station, Basilisk, which he later sold to Tamedia. The group rejected the transmitter againtoday belongs to Basilisk Matthias Hagemannthe former relocator of the Basler Zeitung. He in turn had sold Radio Basel 1, which had emerged from Radio Raurach, to Heeb, who turned it into Radio Basel formed.
