In the last decade, the Swiss media landscape has been completely overturned. The man at work was a German, unsentimental and quite charming: Martin Kall. The CEO of Tamedia at the time boldly examined the portfolio with his "Kall Boys", sold unprofitable titles, bought others, bombed competitors out of business (such as Sacha Wigdorovits' free newspaper ".ch") and imposed rigorous austerity measures. At an exorbitant price, he secured air supremacy over Bern by taking over austria rcs data the Espace Media Group (2007) and acquired the Edipresse Groupe in French-speaking Switzerland (2011). The biggest problem remains: the balancing act between paid content (printed newspapers and Newsnet) and free content (20min.ch) is strategic nonsense.
After ploughing, the cultivation of the fields has now begun. On Wednesday afternoon, Tamedia announced in a whitewashed communiqué what will be grown in the future: millet - everywhere. From Winterthur to Interlaken, and from the "Landboten" to the "Berner Oberländer", all daily newspapers controlled by Tamedia will have the same thing from next year. The foreign, domestic, business, society/culture and sport sections will be merged.
There is millet porridge in bowls that are still different colors. This is not healthy for our democracy, especially in Bern with the "Bund" and the "Berner Zeitung." Press diversity is now a thing of the past, the large landowner has enormous media power, and the Competition Commission is watching.