AZ media
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat | Aarau , Switzerland |
| management | Peter Wanner (Publisher and Chairman of the Board of Directors), Axel Wüstmann ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | ~ 1'000 (2016) |
| Branch | media |
| Website | www.azmedien.ch |
The AZ Medien AG is a media company based in Aarau . Further locations are located throughout Northwestern Switzerland.
history
precursor
The company's history goes back to 1836, when Josef Zehnder , great-great-grandfather of today's publisher Peter Wanner , first published the Aargauer Volkszeitung . In 1848 Zehnder founded the first daily newspaper on the Baden square , which later became the Badener Tagblatt . Almost at the same time, publisher Samuel Landolt founded the Aarauer Tagblatt in 1847 , which in 1880 took on the name Aargauer Tagblatt .
AZ media
AZ Medien emerged in 1996 from the merger of the media houses Aargauer Tagblatt AG and Badener Tagblatt AG. The Aargauer Tagblatt was merged with the Badener Tagblatt to form the Aargauer Zeitung . The Mittelland Zeitung was founded in 2001 - a cooperation between the Aargauer Zeitung , the Solothurner Zeitung , the Oltner Tagblatt and the Zofinger Tagblatt as well as the Limmattaler Zeitung and the Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . This collaboration resulted in Der Sonntag in 2007 . In 2009 AZ Medien took over Vogt-Schild Medien AG, publisher of the Solothurner Zeitung , and put the converted AZ Mediencenter in Aarau into operation.
At the end of 2011, AZ Medien took over the regional broadcasters TeleZüri and TeleBärn , which together with Tele M1 belong to the AZ Medien TV division. In early 2012, bz Basel , the regional daily for the city and agglomeration of Basel , appeared for the first time . In the same year, AZ Medien gave its regional daily newspapers a national brand bracket: Northwestern Switzerland (since June 2014 az Northwestern Switzerland ). In 2013, AZ Medien, in cooperation with Südostschweiz Medien, launched the Sunday newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag . In the same year they invested in the procurement of a new printing press and in stakes in the news website watson.ch .
In 2013, Axel Wüstmann became CEO of AZ Medien. The AZ Medien TV division expanded with the new channels TV24 in 2014 and TV25 in 2016. In 2014, Northwestern Switzerland also got a new layout and Dietschi AG was taken over. Since then the ot Oltner Tagblatt has also belonged to AZ Medien. The digital business was consolidated in an independent area, AZ Medien Digital, and the know-how was bundled; AZ Medien Digital has since operated and marketed all of AZ Medien's online products. A new printing center was also opened in Aarau in 2014.
In 2016, Radio 24 and Radio Argovia were integrated into the company under the management of AZ Medien, and swissmom.ch became completely owned by AZ Medien, after AZ Medien Digital had already taken over its marketing the year before. In 2016, Vogt-Schild Druck also made a replacement investment in a new web offset printing machine for commercial printing .
With the slogan “Sunday begins on Saturday”, in February 2017 Switzerland on Sunday was replaced by Switzerland on the weekend . In November 2017, AZ Medien launched Virgin Radio Switzerland . On January 17, 2018, the stations Virgin Radio Hits Switzerland and Virgin Radio Rock Switzerland were broadcast for the first time. At the end of 2017, AZ Medien took over the Swiss private broadcaster S1 .
Joint venture CH Media with the NZZ media group
On October 1, 2018, AZ Medien and the NZZ Media Group brought their regional newspapers and radio and TV stations into a joint venture called CH Media , which both groups share equally. On the part of AZ Medien, this affects all areas - print, radio, TV, online - with the exception of the online newspaper Watson ; As a start-up company, this still needs entrepreneurial freedom, but later involvement is conceivable. AZ Medien magazines were also introduced into the network . The NZZ media group contributed its entire regional media business with the St. Galler Tagblatt and the Luzerner Zeitung , radio and TV stations as well as individual specialist magazines such as the Schweizer Musikzeitung . The printing works as well as all employees and managers in the aforementioned areas of both media groups were also transferred to the new company. The NZZ Medien and Business Medien divisions of the NZZ media group are not part of the merger, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the NZZ am Sonntag .
Products
AZ Medien published 13 newspapers and regional editions, networked with multimedia with regional online news portals, e-papers, iPad and mobile applications. TV stations, radio stations, various high-circulation weekly newspapers that appear once or twice. Trade and special interest magazines as well as customer printing rounded off the range of products and services. The majority of these products were transferred to the joint venture with the NZZ media group CH Media on October 1, 2018 . The two licensed radio stations Argovia and Radio 24 and the two licensed TV stations Tele M1 and Tele Bärn as well as the online newspaper Watson remain with AZ Medien .
The AT Verlag , Sachbuchverlag of AZ Media with locations in Switzerland and Germany, publishes books on the core topics cooking, medicine, places of power, works and Travel / Switzerland.
Holdings
AZ Medien's most important investments include: CH Media AG , AZ Anzeiger AG, AZ Fachverlage AG, AZ Management Services AG, AZ Regionalfernsehen AG (formerly Tele M1 AG), CH Media TV AG (formerly AZ TV Productions AG), AZ Verlagsservices AG , AZ Vertriebs AG, AZ Newspapers AG, Dietschi AG, Belcom AG, Fixxpunkt AG, Media Factory AG, Mittelland Zeitungsdruck AG, Vogt-Schild Druck AG, VS Vertriebs GmbH and Weiss Medien AG.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry of AZ Medien AG in the Swiss commercial register . In: Moneyhouse .
- ↑ AZ Medien AG takes over Vogt-Schild Holding completely. In: Klein Report . March 17, 2009. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
- ↑ AZ Medien take over TeleBärn and TeleZüri. In: Tamedia . August 23, 2011 (press release).
- ↑ AZ Medien launches daily newspaper BZ Basel. ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: advertising week. December 20, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ^ "Sonntag" and "Südostschweiz am Sonntag" merge. In: persoenlich.com . January 30, 2013.
- ↑ AZ Medien procure new printing press for 20 million. In: Aargauer Zeitung . 4th September 2013.
- ↑ AZ-Medien start news website. In: NZZ Online . October 27, 2013.
- ↑ Axel Wüstmann announces investments in online projects. In: persoenlich.com. 29th September 2013.
- ↑ AZ-Medien launch the new TV channel «TV24». In: persoenlich.com. December 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Oltner Tagblatt" almost entirely taken over. In: persoenlich.com. September 25, 2014.
- ↑ AZ Medien open new printing center. In: Klein Report. November 14, 2014.
- ↑ Radio Argovia and Radio 24 will be integrated into AZ Medien on 01.01.2016. (No longer available online.) In: Werbewoche. Archived from the original on February 12, 2016 ; accessed on February 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ AZ Medien invest in new web offset printing press. In: www.vsdruck.ch. June 6, 2016.
- ↑ AZ Medien launch “Virgin Radio Switzerland”. AZ media. November 6, 2017.
- ↑ New media company has started. In: persoenlich.com. 1st October 2018.
