Tele Bärn celebrates its 15th birthday

On March 1, 2010, the television station Tele Bärn will be 15 years old. Switzerland's second-largest regional TV station is celebrating this birthday with a look back at the early days and behind the scenes of today's newsroom.

Fifteen years ago, a small team of young people who had just become video journalists produced news, background and entertainment programs. And were soon met with some derision, according to a Tele Bärn press release. Today, an average of more than 200,000 people watch the Tele Bärn program every day. This corresponds to a good fifth of those who can receive the station in the area from Langenthal to the south of the canton of Fribourg and from Lake Neuchâtel to the Haslital.
On March 1, the 60-strong team looks back together with the viewers. To the first news 15 years ago, to the Seva Game Show and to the first Tele Bärn sports report on the subject of Hornussen. In the "Musigstubete", musicians who were part of the first show take to the stage and the "Info" shows what a VJ's working day looks like today.
At the same time, Patrick Teuscher takes up his position as the new program director on this day. He was involved in the early days of the station at Tele Bärn from 1995 to 1997 and is now returning - after
Career stages as head of the magazine "Innovationen", deputy editor-in-chief
at Cash TV and video project manager at the Keystone photo agency - as program manager at
Tele Bärn back.

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