Plazamedia instead of tpc

TV production The largest German sports TV producer, Plazamedia, can continue to produce the Sunday football program "live ran" for Sat 1 Switzerland, meaning that the Munich-based production company is once again preferred to SRG subsidiary tpc, which carried out the contract until February 2004. According to Sat 1 Switzerland, Plazamedia was awarded the contract primarily for cost reasons. However, another evaluation will be carried out in the summer. tpc CEO Roger Sidler said on request that he had hardly expected to be awarded the contract. "We know that prices in Germany are at rock bottom. But we can't and don't want to keep up," he said. This means that tpc is missing out on an order volume of around CHF 1.5 million. (mk)