Sven Epiney wins Tele Audience Award

The 2006 Tele Prize was presented to 350 guests at the Casinotheater Winterthur on Friday evening. Sven Epiney, presenter of "al dente" and "5gegen5", won the audience award. He was voted the most popular TV presenter by the readers of the TV magazine Tele. In addition to Epiney, Christine Maier, Roman Kilchsperger and Ueli Schmezer from the Tele editorial team were also nominated for the Audience Award, as announced by the publishing house Ringier. This year's television prize went to the editors of the SF1 series "Reporter". The film prize was awarded to Swiss director Michael Steiner for his successful films "Grounding" and "Mein Name ist Eugen". The evening was hosted by TV presenter Frank Baumann.