2024-01-22 14:01:57
Schawinski’s Radio 1 is cutting jobs
Radio 1 will no longer produce the news bulletins itself in the future. As a result, six permanent and part-time employees will lose their jobs in Zurich.
Production costs are too high: journalist Roger Schawinski will buy the news in future.
Photo: Gaetan Bally (Keystone)
Roger Schawinski’s station will receive the news bulletins from the CH Media Radios news team from spring 2024. As a result, six permanent and part-time employees in Zurich will lose their jobs.
Radio 1 boss Schawinski is quoted as saying that radio stations are no longer able to make as much of a mark with news bulletins as they used to. With the many current Internet offerings with their push notifications, media consumption has changed radically.
Production costs too high
According to Schawinski, the production costs for the news bulletins can no longer be refinanced due to the sharp decline in income from national radio . With the collaboration, Radio 1 can concentrate on its own relevant program content, the 78-year-old radio producer is quoted as saying.
His radio makes the difference “in the music, the moderation, the speech and the long word broadcasts”. According to the announcement, the CH-Media-Radio news team produces news for 16 private radio stations. Twelve of them belong to the CH Media Group, four, like Radio 1, are third-party stations.
Schawinski receives Graubünden radio license
It was only announced at the beginning of January that Schawinski had received the license for the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom). a new radio called “Radio Alpin” receives from the federal government in Graubünden, Glarus and the St. Gallen Oberland. “I have always fought for more diversity of opinion and once morest monopolies,” Schawinski said at the time. “After the national radio and television monopoly, I am now breaking the last important monopoly in Graubünden.” Schawinski applied for the concession together with the former editor-in-chief of the “Bündner Zeitung”, Stefan Bühler. You can expect fees of around three million francs per year. This money was previously received by Radio Südostschweiz, which belongs to the Lebrument family’s Somedia group and has now lost out to Schwawinki.
This is a reaction to the surprising job cuts at Radio 1. Chairman of the board of Somedia, Silvio Lebrument, told this newspaper: “I would feel ripped off if I were Bakom or one of the cantons that supported Roger Schawinski’s license application.” And further: “We are filing a complaint once morest the awarding of the concession and believe we have good chances.”
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