Basler Zeitung Media
The Basler Zeitung Medien - in the commercial register registered since October 2017 as "Basler Zeitung AG" - is a Swiss media company based in Basel . It publishes the daily Basler Zeitung and the twice-weekly free newspaper BaZ Kompakt , which emerged from the Baslerstab , and operates the websites baz.ch, basel.stadtbesten.ch and immo.baz.ch. It has a 21% stake in Neue Fricktaler Zeitung and 20% in Presse TV AG. From 2003 to 2009 it was also the owner of Radio Basel 1 . It is itself part of BaZ Holding (today: Zeitungshaus AG), which since 2014 has belonged to Christoph Blocher , Rolf Bollmann and Markus Somm , one third each .
Basler newspaper
First transfer of ownership
Until the takeover by Tito Tettamanti and Martin Wagner in February 2010, Matthias Hagemann was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Basler Zeitung Medien and also editor of Basler Zeitung . Hagemann resigned his chairmanship to the new co-owner Wagner and initially remained on the board of directors until he resigned at the beginning of June 2010. Beat Meyer , the CEO of the media company, resigned and was replaced by Roland Steffen, who resigned in September 2012 after two years.
Advisory assignment
On November 14, 2010, it became known that the new owners of Basler Zeitung Medien had given the management consulting and financing company “Robinvest AG”, whose board members are Christoph Blocher and his daughter Rahel Blocher , a consulting mandate. After the newspaper editors asked the new owners for answers to their questions and demands, they were assured by Wagner that Robinvest offered “purely industrial” advice that had no influence whatsoever on newspaper content and guaranteed journalistic independence.
After it became known that Christoph Blocher was holding a consulting mandate with this newspaper through Robinvest , hundreds of subscribers quit - at massive media pressure . The editors also revolted and some local protests followed.
Second transfer of ownership
On November 24, 2010 it was announced that the previous owners Tettamanti / Wagner immediately sold 100 percent of Basler Zeitung Medien to the Basel entrepreneur and Crossair founder Moritz Suter . Suter became chairman of the board of directors and publisher. He ended Blocher's advisory mandate. The headquarters were relocated from Zug to Basel. Markus Somm remained editor-in-chief of the Basler Zeitung .
Third Transfer of Ownership
On December 12, 2011 Moritz Suter ceded his shares to Rahel Blocher, thereby ending his attempt to reorganize the Basler Zeitung . He resigned as Chairman of the Board of Directors and as a publisher. A few days later, Rahel Blocher sold all of the shares to the newly founded MedienVielfalt Holding .
At the beginning of July 2013, the holding company's board of directors announced that Christoph Blocher would acquire 20% of the shares in MedienVielfalt-Holding through his investment company Robinvest. He also took over a share of 40 million Swiss francs in the loan that the MVH had granted BaZ-Holding. Blocher also took a seat on the board of directors.
Free weekly newspapers
In August 2017, BaZ Holding took over the publishing house Zehnder Regiomedia AG in Wil SG (today Swiss Regiomedia AG, Baar ZG ), which publishes 24 free weekly newspapers throughout German-speaking Switzerland, including the Winterthurer newspaper , the St Galler Nachrichten , the Wiler Nachrichten and the Aarauer Nachrichten , as well as the Zuger Woche AG, which also belongs to the Zehnder family and publishes the Zuger Woche . The 25 weekly newspapers have a total circulation of around 665,000 copies and reach around 750,000 readers.
Commuter newspaper News
From December 5, 2007, Basler Zeitung Medien and Espace Media published the commuter newspaper News . On August 24, 2009 Espace Media and Basler Zeitung Medien announced that they had sold their shares in Tamedia due to the distressed situation of the newspaper . This immediately stopped the issues of Berne and Basel and at the end of 2009 the entire newspaper.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Zeitung and Basler Nachrichten AG. In: Zefix . Commercial Register Office of the Canton of Basel-Stadt , July 6, 2016, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Companies and investments. In: Website of the Basler Zeitung Medien.
- ^ Basler Zeitung. Bollmann, Somm and Blocher are new owners. In: persoenlich.com. 30th of June 2013.
- ^ Isabelle Imhof: The «Basler Zeitung» is sold. In: NZZ Online . February 8, 2010.
- ↑ Ex-publisher Hagemann leaves the BaZ board of directors. In: Kleinreport. June 3, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2010.
- ↑ Peter Knechtli: Scandal at the BaZ top: CEO Roland Steffen is leaving with immediate effect. In: OnlineReports . September 6, 2012.
- ↑ Lukas Häuptli: Blocher determines the course of the «Basler Zeitung». In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. November 14, 2010.
- ↑ Baz publisher Wagner stands behind Somm. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 16, 2010.
- ^ Moritz Suter takes over the «Basler Zeitung». In: Basler Zeitung . November 24, 2010 (interview with Moritz Suter).
- ↑ Big change for «Basler Zeitung». ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: 10vor10 . November 24, 2010 (video, approx. 8 minutes).
- ^ Matthias Chapman: Suter buys «Basler Zeitung» and ends Blocher's mandate. In: Tages-Anzeiger. November 24, 2010.
- ↑ Moritz Suter sells “Basler Zeitung” shares to Blocher subsidiary. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . December 12, 2011.
- ↑ MedienVielfalt Holding takes over Basler Zeitung. In: Basler Zeitung. December 14, 2011.
- ↑ Blocher takes over 20 percent of the BaZ Holding. In: TagesWoche . July 2, 2013, accessed July 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Rainer Stadler: BaZ Holding buys free newspapers. Christoph Blocher expands his newspaper ownership. In: NZZ Online. 16th August 2017.
- ↑ Commuter newspaper News is discontinued. In: Tamedia media release of December 4, 2009.
