Winterthur Newspaper

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Winterthur Newspaper
Winterthurer newspaper logo.svg
description regional Swiss Free - weekly
publishing company Swiss Regiomedia AG, Baar ZG
(newspaper house AG)
Headquarters Winterthur
First edition August 13, 2002
Frequency of publication weekly (thursdays)
Widespread edition 66,027 (previous year 87,630) copies
( Winterthurer newspaper )
Range 0.077 (previous year 0.073) million readers
(WEMF MACH Basic 2018-II)
Editor-in-chief George Stutz
editor Rolf Bollmann
executive Director Alain Isliker
Web link www.winterthurer-zeitung.ch

The Winterthur newspaper is a civic regional free - weekly from Winterthur in Switzerland. It has been published once a week since August 13, 2002, on Thursdays, in the city and region of Winterthur, the Zürcher Weinland and in the Upper Tösstal . It is an indirect successor to the Winterthurer Woche , which was taken over by the Winterthurer Stadtanzeiger .

The Winterthurer Zeitung has a widespread circulation of 66,027 (previous year 87,630) copies and a reach of 77,000 (previous year 73,000) readers (WEMF MACH Basic 2018-II) including the headers Wyland Zeitung and ilef Zeitung .

Editor-in-chief is George Stutz, managing director Alain Isliker.

The Winterthurer Zeitung is the newspaper with the highest circulation of the Swiss Regiomedia AG publishing house in Baar ZG , which publishes 23 other weekly newspapers throughout German-speaking Switzerland, including the St. Galler Nachrichten , the Wiler Nachrichten , the Luzerner Rundschau and the Aarauer Nachrichten . The publishing house (at that time Zehnder Regiomedia AG, Wil SG ) was acquired by BaZ Holding AG (today: Zeitungshaus AG ) together with Zuger Woche AG, which also belongs to the Zehnder family and publishes the Zuger Woche , in August 2017 with retroactive effect to January 1, 2017 ), which until its takeover by Tamedia also owned Basler Zeitung Medien with Basler Zeitung .

In October 2018 it became known that Zeitungshaus AG had taken over the Winterthurer Stadtanzeiger from Zürcher Oberland Medien AG . At the beginning of 2019, the newspaper was integrated into the Winterthurer newspaper ; Since then, this has been published on Thursday, the previous publication date of the Winterthurer Stadtanzeiger .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Winterthurer newspaper. In: Website of the Winterthurer Zeitung .
  2. The “Winterthurer Nachrichten” follows the “Wiwo”. In: Klein Report . August 6, 2002
  3. Rainer Stadler: BaZ Holding buys free newspapers. Christoph Blocher expands his newspaper ownership. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 16th August 2017.
  4. ^ André Müller: Blocher buys another free paper in the canton of Zurich. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. October 30, 2018.