''Blick am Abend'' was a free evening newspaper published in Switzerland and based in Zürich. It existed between 2008 and 2018.

History and profile

''Blick am Abend'' was first published on 1 June 2008 as a successor to the afternoon free daily ''

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''. ''Blick am Abend'', based in Zürich, was a free newspaper owned by

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of the daily. Its sister newspaper was ''

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'', a leading daily in the country. In 2008 ''Blick am Abend'' started a biweekly legal column which answers the reader questions. Until 2009 the daily had editions in Zürich,

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. 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. It was 329,418 copies in 2010, and its readership was 604,000 the same year. ''Blick am Abend'' discontinued in December 2018.

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* {{Authority control 2008 establishments in Switzerland 2018 disestablishments in Switzerland Defunct free daily newspapers Defunct newspapers published in Switzerland Evening newspapers German-language newspapers published in Switzerland Newspapers established in 2008 Newspapers published in Zurich Publications disestablished in 2018 Defunct German-language newspapers published in Europe