CNNMoney Switzerland

[plnewsfan 9]

Switzerland is set to get a business news channel in english called CNNMoney Switzerland. The channel will primary focus on business and finance along with lifestyle and general news programming. It's the first country to get the CNNMoney branded TV channel.

[TheRolyPoly 2415]

Switzerland is set to get a business news channel in english called CNNMoney Switzerland. The channel will primary focus on business and finance along with lifestyle and general news programming. It's the first country to get the CNNMoney branded TV channel.

 

This could've been on International Out and About but okay. Interesting to see considering that CNN-FN shut down in 2004 and I don't know if CNN in the US would want to do that again.

[nathannah 2429]

Going by the press release it looks like they're going full-freight for the older Davos type of crowd. Not shocked as those are the types that would still be happy with a cable launch rather than a digital branding.

[C Block 1566]

This could've been on International Out and About but okay. Interesting to see considering that CNN-FN shut down in 2004 and I don't know if CNN in the US would want to do that again.

 

This is not the same thing really as CNN launching a channel themselves. This is more of an international broadcaster licensing the CNN brand to use, sometimes with or without some financial partnership with CNN. There are a lot of CNN-branded channels worldwide, and typically, they contribute very little editorially to CNN US, CNNI, or CNN.com.

 

The English and French press releases both talk about the channel contributing to CNN Money, which has become a heftier site for business news recently, but neither of them talk about any sort of integration with CNNI's business or lifestyle shows. I would imagine there might be a little more overlap with CNNI and CNN Money Switzerland than there currently is with, say, CNN Indonesia, but for the most part, these CNN-branded channels are largely independent editorial operations.

[TheRolyPoly 2415]

This is not the same thing really as CNN launching a channel themselves. This is more of an international broadcaster licensing the CNN brand to use, sometimes with or without some financial partnership with CNN. There are a lot of CNN-branded channels worldwide, and typically, they contribute very little editorially to CNN US, CNNI, or CNN.com.

 

The English and French press releases both talk about the channel contributing to CNN Money, which has become a heftier site for business news recently, but neither of them talk about any sort of integration with CNNI's business or lifestyle shows. I would imagine there might be a little more overlap with CNNI and CNN Money Switzerland than there currently is with, say, CNN Indonesia, but for the most part, these CNN-branded channels are largely independent editorial operations.

 

Ah okay, then this makes it much more clearer.

[plnewsfan 9]

Well, Mediago's CEO Christophe Rasch in a interview with french-speaking "Le Matin" said:

"Switzerland was an “ideal” location for a CNNMoney channel due to the nation’s high concentration of multinationals, international and sporting organisations, and institutes of higher education."

On Sonntagszeitung (german-speaking weekly) Greg Beitchman said:

"We will closely monitor the channel’s success. It is not ruled out that there will also be CNN Money channels in other countries, like we’ve launched local CNN International channels".

 

They will have 2 production centers, one in Zurich, and second in Geneva.

 

(EDIT, 08/02) CNNMoney Switzerland website has lanuched: http://www.cnnmoney.ch/

 

(EDIT, 20/02) CNNMoney Switzerland will include the on-screen ticker with stock quotes, and will stream live at cnnmoney.ch, alongside Cable and IPTV providers in Switzerland and Zattoo

[plnewsfan 9]

CNNMoney Switzerland has announced four presenters of the channel: Martina Fuchs (formerly of CGTN), Amanda Kayne (formerly of BBC and CNBC), Ana Maria Montero and Hannah Wise (formerly of France 24). The channel will lanuch in October and their studios will be based in Medienpark in Altstetten (district of Zurich)

[plnewsfan 9]

The editor-in-chief of CNNMoney Switzerland has been announced, his name is Urs Gredig, a journalist from SRF. The Deputy editor-in-chief of the channel will be Frederic Lelievre, he comes from Le Figaro, where he was Hong Kong correspondent.

[plnewsfan 9]

The countdown is on. CNNMoney Switzerland will lanuch on January 24th 2018: