Waiting for Weko
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 4:22 am
"Waiting for Godot" is the name of a theater classic. The content is quite banal: waiting for something that doesn't happen. The new version - "Waiting for Weko" - is currently being performed in the Swiss media theater. Waiting for something that might happen. In the leading roles: Tamedia, which wants to take over Christoph Blocher's Basler Zeitung and the advertising marketer Goldbach, as well as AZ Media, which is planning a joint venture with NZZ Regional Media. But the approval taiwan rcs data of the Competition Commission is taking time ( persoenlich.com reported ).
This is an extremely unsatisfactory situation for those involved, as it means that business activity is blocked for months and valuable time is lost. But now resistance is emerging: in an interview with persoenlich.com , Tamedia CEO Christoph Tonini called the Weko investigations "unworldly". A relic from the past, no longer in keeping with the times.
Tonini is not wrong: mergers in the media world have long since ceased to be the result of a display of power and megalomania, but rather of sheer necessity. "We are dwarfs surrounded by giants," ponders the Tamedia boss. An apt comparison in view of the dominance of the American internet multinationals Google and Facebook, which now skim half of the Swiss advertising market. Or to put it more bluntly: Weko's efforts are reminiscent of those farmers who want to combat the summer heat with their watering cans.
This is an extremely unsatisfactory situation for those involved, as it means that business activity is blocked for months and valuable time is lost. But now resistance is emerging: in an interview with persoenlich.com , Tamedia CEO Christoph Tonini called the Weko investigations "unworldly". A relic from the past, no longer in keeping with the times.
Tonini is not wrong: mergers in the media world have long since ceased to be the result of a display of power and megalomania, but rather of sheer necessity. "We are dwarfs surrounded by giants," ponders the Tamedia boss. An apt comparison in view of the dominance of the American internet multinationals Google and Facebook, which now skim half of the Swiss advertising market. Or to put it more bluntly: Weko's efforts are reminiscent of those farmers who want to combat the summer heat with their watering cans.