AZ Medien: Markus Gilli becomes editor-in-chief of the TV station family

Markus Gilli will become editor-in-chief of the family of channels that includes Tele Züri, Tele Bärn and Tele M1. This means he will also be responsible for the in-house productions of the new national channel TV24 (Werbewoche.ch reported) will be responsible. Gilli will be supported by Oliver Steffen, who as Head of Operations is responsible for cross-station tasks such as projects, quality management and training. This will make the editorial teams in Zurich, Aarau and Bern more efficient and allow them to focus consistently on their regional journalistic remit, explained Roger Elsener, Managing Director TV, in a press release on Tuesday.

New management team

Elsener will now manage the TV division of AZ Medien with a five-person management team consisting of Markus Gilli (Editor-in-Chief TV station family), Peter Canale (Head of Technology and Production), Daniel Schnüriger (Head of Sales and Deputy Managing Director Belcom), Laura Berndt (Head of Marketing) and Ute von Moers (Deputy Managing Director Belcom and Head of Licensing Program of TV24).

New editors-in-chief

As before, Stephan Gassner for Tele M1 and now Claude Winet for Tele Züri and Adrian Grob for Tele Bärn will be responsible for local and regional content as editors-in-chief.

The previous Tele Bern editor-in-chief Werner de Schepper is stepping down after just over a year. Werner de Schepper will continue to regularly present "Talk Täglich" for Tele Bärn and Tele M1 and work as a columnist for the AZ Aargauer Zeitung. He will also be responsible for projects for the editorial team of Nordwestschweiz from May 1, 2014, according to the press release.