Valais messenger

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Valais messenger
Walliser Bote.png
description Swiss daily newspaper
publishing company Mengis Printing & Publishing
First edition September 1, 1840
Frequency of publication working days
Sold edition 18,299 (previous year 18,739) copies
( WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Widespread edition 18,753 (previous year 20,001) copies
(WEMF circulation bulletin 2018)
Range 0.049 (previous year 0.050) million readers
(WEMF MACH Basic 2018-II)
Editor-in-chief Herald Bieler
editor Fredy Bayard
Web link www.walliserbote.ch
ISSN 1660-0657

The Walliser Bote , often referred to simply as WB , is a Swiss daily newspaper . It is the only daily newspaper in the German-speaking part of the canton of Valais and appears from Monday to Saturday.

history

The Walliser Bote , founded in 1840 for the first time, is the oldest newspaper in Valais , albeit with an interruption. In 1851 the Walliser Bote was re-established in Sion and appeared this time until 1857 and then from 1858 to 1869 under the name Walliser Wochenblatt . In July 1869, the newspaper reverted to its original name, Walliser Bote . In 1932 Klaus Mengis and the printing company he founded the previous year took over the publication of the Walliser Bote . Three years later the frequency was expanded to three issues a week.

The merger with the liberal-conservative Walliser Nachrichten in 1961 marked the beginning of the company's rise to become the dominant newspaper in Upper Valais. It was not until 1969 that it became a daily newspaper with six issues . Even if the Walliser Bote was the party newspaper of the blacks ( Catholic Conservatives , later CVP ) until 1981 , it can already be described as an "independent newspaper" after the editorial restructuring that took place in 1971. But even after saying goodbye to the party newspaper on November 18, 1981, the Walliser Bote remains the CVP's ​​publication organ. In 1979 the sheet was printed in four colors for the first time and early delivery was introduced in 2003.

In 2018 the Upper Valais entrepreneur Fredy Bayard took over the majority of shares in Mengis Druck und Verlags AG including Walliser Boten and other media.

Further products

From 2000 to 2011, the WB extra magazine was published every 14 days (circulation: 36,851 copies) as a free supplement to the Walliser Bote .

Since November 2004 , the Walliser Bote and the WB have been presenting themselves on the joint information portal WB.online . In July 2010, WB.online in the new Oberwalliser news portal 1815.ch integrated.

The Upper Valais party portal Snaplife.ch was taken over by the Walliser Boten in summer 2009 .

literature

  • Alois Grichting: The Upper Valais 1840–1990. 150 years of the Walliser Bote . Rotten-Verlag, Brig 1990.
  • Antoine Lugon: La presse écrite en Valais - origines principaux courants, évolution / Die Walliser Presse - beginnings, main currents, development (= Cahiers de Vallesia No. 18). State Archives Publishing House, Sitten 2008.
  • Press dossier on Antoine Lugon: Die Walliser Presse ( MS Word ; 278 kB).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WEMF circulation bulletin 2018 , p. 29 (PDF; 796 kB).
  2. ↑ a b c Beat Locher: The State Council Proporz in the canton of Valais, 1848–1988. Saint-Paul, Freiburg i. Ü. 1996, p. 275 ff.
  3. ^ List of the Valais newspapers. In: Wiki Wallis.
  4. ↑ a b c story. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Mengis website. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mengis-visp.ch
  5. ^ Valais media landscape. Bayard buys Valais media. In: SRF.ch . January 12, 2018, accessed January 13, 2018 .
  6. ^ Beat Locher: The State Council Prospect in the Canton of Valais, 1848–1988. Saint-Paul, Freiburg i. Ü. 1996, p. 38.