Wappler announces details of the rebuild at SRF
The new head of Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), Nathalie Wappler, has provided some insights into the organization’s restructuring in several interviews. A new program will debut on Saturday evenings this fall, the SRF chief told *Blick* on Saturday, for example.
The new program will be called "Es geschah am ..." and will focus on an event from recent Swiss history in documentary and fictional form. "It will start with the case of the Spiez ghost train in 2006," Wappler told the View. There will also be shows. For example, "May I have this dance?" will be broadcast again in 2020. And the "Tagesschau" will continue to be broadcast at half past seven - but will have a new studio and a slightly different appearance.
In addition, Wappler is working on the implementation of major projects, such as the establishment of the culture editorial department in Basel and the construction of the newsroom and Radiohall in Zurich. "On the one hand, we will be able to strengthen regional reporting in connection with a partial move of radio information from Bern to Zurich - with more correspondents in our regional newsrooms," the SRF boss told CH-Media's newspapers on Saturday in this regard. On the other hand, the reorganization will create new working environments that will favor mobile work on the road, i.e. directly from the regions, Wappler also explained.
On top of that, SRF is to develop its own platforms on the Internet in order to keep up with American streaming giants. He said that one could not influence the algorithms of Youtube, Facebook and Instagram. "We therefore also need our own platforms and are in the process of developing a new SRG player that will bundle the offerings from all language regions," Wappler told CH-Media newspapers. (SDA)
