SRG.D: Three new members elected to the regional board

Urs Gasche is a member of the cantonal government and Finance Director of the Canton of Berne (BDP, 2001-10), Alexia Heine (SVP) works as a judge at the Social Insurance Court of the Canton of Zurich and Urs Rellstab (FDP) is Deputy Director of Economiesuisse. The three newly elected members will replace Peter Bamert, CEO of ExLibris, and Heinz Karrer, CEO of Axpo Holding AG, who are stepping down at the end of the year, as well as SRG Director General Armin Walpen, who is leaving for statutory reasons.

Composition of the regional board

(Picture: Urs Gasche (l.), Urs Rellstab (r.))

(Image: Alexia Heine)

Board of Directors SRG.D until December 31, 2009

About the regional board
As the successor to the SRG.D Board of Directors, the SRG.D Regional Board is the management body of SRG.D, the regional company of SRG SSR in German-speaking Switzerland, as of January 1, 2010. It is elected by the SRG.D Regional Board. In business matters, the Regional Board acts as a committee of the SRG SSR Board of Directors. It is involved in transactions that are relevant to programming in the broader sense and are important for the anchoring of SRG in the language region. It makes preliminary decisions on studio locations, on the merger or separation of business units and on the organization of the business units at the second management level relevant to programming. It submits proposals for the election of directors and second-level executives relevant to programming as well as for the quality and public service of the business units, and it decides on the program concepts of the business units within the framework of the BoD's guidelines. In addition, it manages and monitors civil society tasks in the language region.