Press TV repositions and gears up for new broadcasting slots
Starting in 2009, the publisher-owned television network PresseTV will be assigned some entirely new time slots, including on SF1. As a result, the format of some programs will be adjusted.
At the end of May, Swiss Television (SF) and the publisher's television station PresseTV (PTV) put their cooperation on a new footing as of 2009. This not only means that the PTV formats "Konsum-TV", "100 Minuten" and "Fussball-Talk" will disappear from next year, but that there will also be changes for other programs. The most important change is that most PTV formats will be moved to SF1 and some of them will be moved from the weekend to other days of the week. Only "Motorshow TCS" and "Cash TV" will remain on SF 2 on Sunday evenings.
Some PTV programs will therefore undergo content or conceptual changes, such as "Gesundheit Sprechstunde" (GES), which will in future be broadcast with a new logo on Saturdays at 6.10 p.m. on SF1, weekly instead of fortnightly, but only 25 minutes long (previously one hour). This means that the program will be limited to one focus in future, whereas previously up to three topics could be covered. It will also have new features - with news and a sketch on quitting: the editors will examine common claims - such as that milk helps to relieve stomach burns - to determine their origins and truthfulness. The audience will still be present for "GES". However, as the shortened program is now produced in duplicate, it is no longer broadcast live.
Major conceptual changes have been made to "Motorshow". The format will also be broadcast weekly and now on Sundays at 5.40 p.m. on SF zwei, immediately before the rescheduled "Sportpanorama". "This is the absolute preferred time for us," says Hans-Jürg Deutsch, Managing Director of PTV. There will also be a change in presenter: Kurt Lotz, currently still working at NDR, will be the new main presenter, while Yolanda Surer will remain on the show on a topic-by-topic basis. In terms of content, the show will focus more on fuel consumption, safety and driving reports, with acceleration and speeding taking a back seat. In addition to TCS, Deutsch was also able to win back Coop Pronto as a sponsor, which already took part in "Motorshow TCS" three years ago.
There are hardly any changes to "NZZ Format" and "NZZ Swiss Made", which will now be broadcast on Thursdays at 11.15 pm (after Aeschbacher). "Cash TV/Cash Talk" will also remain the same, even the broadcast time on Sunday evenings at 10.30 p.m. will remain unchanged. The PTV viewpoints, on the other hand, will have a different slot - Sundays at 1.10 p.m., now always in the same order: on the first Sunday of the month, the Handelszeitung will cover a stock market topic, followed by the NZZ with a focus on politics, on the third Sunday the Basler Zeitung will feature an article with a cultural focus, and the SonntagsBlick will cover a topic from society and politics on the last Sunday. The program "Bekanntmachung" is also broadcast on Sundays, but at midnight.
Incidentally, all PTV programs will continue to be repeated on SF info. Furthermore, "Motorshow TCS" and "GES" will be translated: "Motorshow TCS" will also be taken over by TSR 2 in future, but instead of recording the program from scratch as before, it will only be dubbed in French. GES" will also be dubbed - in both French and Italian.
Markus Knöpfli
Some PTV programs will therefore undergo content or conceptual changes, such as "Gesundheit Sprechstunde" (GES), which will in future be broadcast with a new logo on Saturdays at 6.10 p.m. on SF1, weekly instead of fortnightly, but only 25 minutes long (previously one hour). This means that the program will be limited to one focus in future, whereas previously up to three topics could be covered. It will also have new features - with news and a sketch on quitting: the editors will examine common claims - such as that milk helps to relieve stomach burns - to determine their origins and truthfulness. The audience will still be present for "GES". However, as the shortened program is now produced in duplicate, it is no longer broadcast live.
Major conceptual changes have been made to "Motorshow". The format will also be broadcast weekly and now on Sundays at 5.40 p.m. on SF zwei, immediately before the rescheduled "Sportpanorama". "This is the absolute preferred time for us," says Hans-Jürg Deutsch, Managing Director of PTV. There will also be a change in presenter: Kurt Lotz, currently still working at NDR, will be the new main presenter, while Yolanda Surer will remain on the show on a topic-by-topic basis. In terms of content, the show will focus more on fuel consumption, safety and driving reports, with acceleration and speeding taking a back seat. In addition to TCS, Deutsch was also able to win back Coop Pronto as a sponsor, which already took part in "Motorshow TCS" three years ago.
There are hardly any changes to "NZZ Format" and "NZZ Swiss Made", which will now be broadcast on Thursdays at 11.15 pm (after Aeschbacher). "Cash TV/Cash Talk" will also remain the same, even the broadcast time on Sunday evenings at 10.30 p.m. will remain unchanged. The PTV viewpoints, on the other hand, will have a different slot - Sundays at 1.10 p.m., now always in the same order: on the first Sunday of the month, the Handelszeitung will cover a stock market topic, followed by the NZZ with a focus on politics, on the third Sunday the Basler Zeitung will feature an article with a cultural focus, and the SonntagsBlick will cover a topic from society and politics on the last Sunday. The program "Bekanntmachung" is also broadcast on Sundays, but at midnight.
Incidentally, all PTV programs will continue to be repeated on SF info. Furthermore, "Motorshow TCS" and "GES" will be translated: "Motorshow TCS" will also be taken over by TSR 2 in future, but instead of recording the program from scratch as before, it will only be dubbed in French. GES" will also be dubbed - in both French and Italian.
Markus Knöpfli
One place is still available
In May, SF announced that there was still a slot available for a 35-minute format on Sundays at 6.10 p.m. on SF1. PTV has now submitted two broadcasting ideas via Ringier, says Hans-Jürg Deutsch. However, it is possible that proposals will also come from third parties. However, it remains to be seen which format will be used. SF will decide in January. (mk)
