Commercial management of Radio 24 and TeleZüri in women's hands in future

 The succession plan for Tarkan Özküp and Marco Genepretti at Radio 24 and TeleZüri has been determined: Andrea Hämmerli-Ott will take over the commercial management, Philip Hofmann will become sales manager. Andrea Haemmerli-Ott will take up her post on February 1, 2008. She will be responsible for sales and marketing and will report directly to Rolf Bollmann, Head of the Media Zurich & North-Eastern Switzerland division. Haemmerli-Ott worked in various functions for Eurosales and Eurosport from 1992 until the birth of her daughter in 2004, according to Tamedia. Among other things, she managed the Zurich branch of the television broadcaster, built up a Europe-wide marketing organization for interactive media and took over the management of the Eurosport branch in Munich in 2002. Philip Hofmann will be responsible for the sale of Radio 24 and TeleZüri from February 1, 2008. Hofmann worked at IP Multimedia in Küsnacht from 2003 to 2007, most recently as Head of Account Management TV. Before that, the 31-year-old worked as Key Account Manager for Goldbach Media and for the TV station TV3. Hofmann already knows Tamedia from his commercial apprenticeship, which he completed from 1994 to 1997 at the former TA-Media AG.
In November, it was announced that Tarkan Özküp, the previous Head of Marketing and Sales, was leaving the two channels. Shortly afterwards, station marketer Belcom also had to accept the announcement of Marco Genepretti's departure. He had taken over as Head of Marketing and Sales ad interim (see
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