.ch

Front page from an April 3, 2008, edition
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	tabloid
Owner	Media Punkt AG
Editor	Rolf Leeb
Founded	2007
Political alignment	neutral
Headquarters	Zurich, Bern, Basel, St. Gallen, Luzern
Circulation	430,000
Official website	www.punkt.ch

.ch (English: .ch; spoken: Punkt CH) was a free, ad-financed, tabloid format, daily German language newspaper in Switzerland, launched on September 19 2007 and appearing until May 4 2009. Its name was derived from the Internet country code top-level domain .ch.

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

The paper ceased publication in May 2009 due to its poor economic performance. All 69 employees were laid off.^[2]

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[edit] External links

• (German) Website of punkt.ch

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