.ch (newspaper)

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.ch
Image:Punkt.ch Screenshot.png
Front page from an April 3, 2008, edition
Type Daily newspaper
Format tabloid

Owner Media Punkt AG
Editor Rolf Leeb
Founded 2007
Political allegiance neutral
Price free
Headquarters Zurich, Bern, Basel, St. Gallen, Luzern
Circulation 430,000

Website: www.punkt.ch

.ch (English: .ch; spoken: Punkt CH) is a free, ad-financed, tabloid format, daily German language newspaper in Switzerland, launched on September 19 2007. Its name is derived from the Internet country code top-level domain .ch.

With a claimed initial print run of 435,000, .ch is one of the largest daily newspaper in Switzerland, according to 2006 statistics.[1] It is distributed directly to houses in St. Gallen, Zürich, Basel, Bern and Luzern. .ch competes mainly with other free Swiss newspapers such as 20 Minuten, heute and the News.

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  1. ^ 2006 statistics published by WEMF AG für Medienforschung, accessed September 2007

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