The radio association Unikom has elected a new board of directors
On June 10, the Unikom general meeting elected a new board, which also takes commercial interests into account as a result of the association's expansion. It combines the start-up objectives of DAB radio stations with the media policy concerns of non-profit radio stations.
At the 2017 general meeting, it was decided to open up Unikom to the new DAB+ radios. A year later, a "Notifiable radios" group and a "Complementary radios" group were set up for this purpose.
The 23 radio stations subject to reporting requirements are start-up radio stations that are mainly commercially oriented in order to at least cover their costs. They broadcast their programming via DAB+ and are working on new business models (events, sponsorship, advertising, crowdfunding, subscriptions, etc.). The group of nine non-profit complementary radio stations such as 3fach, LoRa and RaBe broadcast their stations via FM and DAB+ and fulfill a performance mandate.
Unikom currently has 32 members, making it the largest radio association in Switzerland. The 23 radio stations subject to registration are popular music radio stations for all tastes or moderated cultural, sports or church radio stations for Swiss or foreigners living here.
Board elections
The General Assembly elected a Board of Directors that also takes into account the new interests resulting from the expansion of the association and integrates multilingualism.
Board of Directors:
- Judith Grosse, PR manager of Radio LoRa, was re-elected and represents the interests of the complementary local radio stations.
- Simone Ruckstuhl, Managing Director of Radio 3fach, was newly elected to the Board and represents the concerns of the complementary local radio stations.
- Vanessa Esteves, Radio Vostok, was newly elected to the Board and represents the interests of non-profit radio stations in French-speaking Switzerland.
- Dany Hofmann, operator of IP music and entrepreneur (IP worldcom, Decibel SA, Dabcom) was newly elected to the Board and represents the commercial interests of the radio stations in French-speaking Switzerland that are subject to mandatory reporting.
- Giuseppe Scaglione, operator of My105, was newly elected to the Board and represents the commercial interests of DAB+ radio stations in German-speaking Switzerland and Ticino.
- Armin Köhli, Managing Director of the Klipp+Klang radio school, was newly elected to the Board and represents the interests of radio training.
- Thomas Gilgen, operator of Open Broadcast Radio and Digris, was re-elected. He is the contact person for innovative technologies (DAB+, archive, streaming) and for digital migration.
Lukas Weiss, former President of UNikom, is stepping down after 25 years. Patrick Studer has also stepped down because there is not enough time available for the honorary position.
