- The online broadcaster Blick TV is ceasing operations in its traditional form after three and a half years.
- The digital station will no longer broadcast daily news programs from Monday.
- He wants to focus on breaking news, special programs and new formats.
The three daily news programs will no longer exist in the future, but this is anything but the end of Blick TV, a spokesman for the Ringier publishing house told the Keystone-SDA news agency. CH Media had previously reported that Blick TV would broadcast its three daily formats “Blick am Morgen”, “Fokus” and “Der Tag in Five Minutes” for the last time on Friday.
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Start of Blick TV in the Ringier Press House in Zurich on Monday, February 17, 2020.
KEYSTONE/Walter Bieri
Video is and remains a priority for the Blick Group, the spokesman said. Blick currently receives around a million so-called video views per day. In the future, the focus will be on event focal points, such as the recent live broadcasts from the Unspunnen-Schwinget in Interlaken (BE). Blick also wants to continue to offer videos on demand during important events, special programs and in new formats.
The employees of the Blick Group were informed about the changes at a general meeting on Tuesday. It was initially unclear how many of the 48 people signed up for the launch would be affected.
On air since 2020
Blick TV went on air for the first time in February 2020. The purely digital broadcaster built new studios in the Ringier press house in Zurich. Since then, he has broadcast a news and entertainment program every day from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. From the very beginning, Blick TV was integrated into the Blick newsroom in terms of content and space and covered the entire range of Blick topics.
Journalists from the Blick editorial team worked as correspondents and experts for television. For international reports and live streams, Blick entered into a partnership with the US news channel CNN.