Type Free daily Owner(s) Ringier Editor-in-chief Peter Röthlisberger | Format Tabloid Founder(s) Ringier | |
Founded 1 June 2008; 8 years ago (2008-06-01) | ||
Blick am Abend is a German free evening newspaper published in Switzerland and based in Zürich.
History and profile
Blick am Abend was first published on 1 June 2008 as a successor to the afternoon free daily Heute.
Blick am Abend, based in Zürich, is a free newspaper owned by Ringier. It is an evening newspaper published in tabloid format. Peter Röthlisberger is the editor-in-chief of the daily. Its sister newspaper is Blick, a leading daily in the country. Both papers are based in Zurich.
In 2008 Blick am Abend started a biweekly legal column which answers the reader questions. Until 2009 the daily had editions in Zurich, Berne and Basle. St. Gallen and Luzern/Zug editions were started in 2009. In December 2013 the paper launched its online edition.
The audited circulation of Blick am Abend in 2008 was 211,000 copies. The paper had a circulation of 225,226 copies in 2009. In 2010 its circulation was 329,418 copies and its 2010 readership was 604,000.