Head of the week: "I want to be on the program front and feel the DRS products, too"
Heinz Gantenbein, previously Managing Director of Radio Zürisee, is the new Chief of Staff of Radio DRS
Heinz Gantenbein, previously Managing Director of Radio Zürisee, is the new Chief of Staff of Radio DRSHead of the week "I want to be on the program front and also feel the DRS products "He says it with conviction: "I know that I am now in an apparatus with several hierarchical levels." Three days after taking up his post as Chief of Staff at Radio DRS, Heinz Gantenbein has already taken on the public broadcasting stable smell and is happy to announce "that I can make a difference here, because a lot has already happened". For example, "major steps" have been taken in the program area and the locations Zurich for DRS 1, DRS 3 and Musigwälle, Basel for Virus and DRS 2 and Bern for the news and sports editorial offices have been determined.
As Director Walter Rüegg's right-hand man, he wants to help ensure that new synergies are used to develop the programs as part of the restructuring. The soon-to-be 50-year-old sees his main task in the implementation of ideas that he now wants to develop with Rüegg.
He will need a sure instinct, for example when conflicts arise in the editorial offices - as is currently the case with
DRS 3 and Virus. It is therefore clear to him: "I also want to work on the program front, I want to see how the DRS products are created and also feel them."
Until Easter, Gantenbein was Managing Director of Radio Zürisee, but after ten years he felt he was "stepping on the spot". Although he had managed to expand the station's territory, last year he lost the partnership he had arranged with Tamedia. At the behest of the Competition Commission (Weko), Tamedia had to sell its 26.7 percent stake in Radio Zürisee due to the Belcom takeover. "That hurt," he says.
After studying and working as an assistant at the University of Zurich, Gantenbein was initially project manager for publishing marketing at Publimedia for three years, became central secretary at the Swiss Press Association in 1987, completed the Sawi training program to become a publishing salesman and was publishing director of the Zürcher Oberländer from 1989 to 1992. He was then approached by Radio Zürisee. "Radio has always interested me," he says - and today he is glad that he seized the opportunity.
So why did he switch to Radio DRS of all places, the competitor of all private radio stations? "For me, Radio DRS was never a competitor, but a different league. It was always a career advancement opportunity for our employees, and now it is for me too," he says. He is now also leaving restrictive things behind him. The "over-regulated media policy", for example, whose "small-mindedness" Gantenbein no longer feels so directly at Radio DRS. "There is also no more pressure from advertising clients and media agencies," he adds. Markus Knöpfli
As Director Walter Rüegg's right-hand man, he wants to help ensure that new synergies are used to develop the programs as part of the restructuring. The soon-to-be 50-year-old sees his main task in the implementation of ideas that he now wants to develop with Rüegg.
He will need a sure instinct, for example when conflicts arise in the editorial offices - as is currently the case with
DRS 3 and Virus. It is therefore clear to him: "I also want to work on the program front, I want to see how the DRS products are created and also feel them."
Until Easter, Gantenbein was Managing Director of Radio Zürisee, but after ten years he felt he was "stepping on the spot". Although he had managed to expand the station's territory, last year he lost the partnership he had arranged with Tamedia. At the behest of the Competition Commission (Weko), Tamedia had to sell its 26.7 percent stake in Radio Zürisee due to the Belcom takeover. "That hurt," he says.
After studying and working as an assistant at the University of Zurich, Gantenbein was initially project manager for publishing marketing at Publimedia for three years, became central secretary at the Swiss Press Association in 1987, completed the Sawi training program to become a publishing salesman and was publishing director of the Zürcher Oberländer from 1989 to 1992. He was then approached by Radio Zürisee. "Radio has always interested me," he says - and today he is glad that he seized the opportunity.
So why did he switch to Radio DRS of all places, the competitor of all private radio stations? "For me, Radio DRS was never a competitor, but a different league. It was always a career advancement opportunity for our employees, and now it is for me too," he says. He is now also leaving restrictive things behind him. The "over-regulated media policy", for example, whose "small-mindedness" Gantenbein no longer feels so directly at Radio DRS. "There is also no more pressure from advertising clients and media agencies," he adds. Markus Knöpfli
