SRF: New Head of Sports Department
The new Head of SRF Sport and Business Unit Sport SRG (BUS) is Roland Mägerle. The former Head of Major Projects at BUS succeeds Urs Leutert, who is retiring at the end of 2015.
Roland Mägerle has been responsible for major projects in SRG's Business Unit Sport (BUS) since 2004. In this role, the 46-year-old is responsible at the national level for planning, coordinating and implementing projects such as world and European championships in soccer, the Olympic Games or skiing world championships. He will take up the new position on January 1, 2016, according to an SRF release on Monday.
Mägerle held various management positions in the sports department of what was then Swiss Television; among other things, he was editorial director of "sportlive" and project manager for the 1998 World Cup in France and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Before that, he worked first as a freelancer, then as an editor and producer for sports broadcasts. Roland Mägerle has a degree in economics from the University of Zurich; he is married and the father of two children.
Ruedi Matter, Director SRF: "Roland has all the prerequisites to lead SRF's sports department in the multimedia age. With his many years of management experience, his expertise in managing major projects and his sports journalism practice, he is the ideal man for this challenging job. I look forward to working with him as a new member of the Executive Board."
Roger de Weck, Director General SRG: "Sport bi de Lüt: SRG has the best sports offering in Europe, which costs viewers less than on German, Italian or French pay-TV. I am delighted that with Roland Mägerle we have been able to sign up a personality with outstanding journalistic and organizational skills to head the SRF sports editorial team and the SRG-wide Sports Busi-ness Unit.
Teaser image: SRF/Oscar Alessio
