CH Media reorganizes TV National division: Five terminations
The national CH-Media channels 3+, 4+, 5+, 6+, TV24, TV25, and S1 will be consolidated and reorganized as of February 1, 2020, within the «TV, Radio & Film Distribution» division headed by Roger Elsener. As a result, five employees will be leaving the company.
After the TV Regional and Radio Following the reorganization of the TV, Radio and Film Distribution division headed by Roger Elsener last November, the TV National division is now also reorganizing itself. With this step, CH Media wants to create clear structures within the national channels, as was reported in a press release on Tuesday.
The team of the 3-Plus station group and the team of TV24, TV25 and S1 will be merged, and the central functional areas of sales, marketing and technology will be integrated into the organizational structure of the TV, Radio & Film Sales division. The finance and HR team will be transferred to the Group structures. As a result of the merger, five people will leave the company.
The TV National division now consists of the two areas "Program and Channel Management" and "In-house Productions".
"Program and Channel Management" includes program planning, license acquisition, research & product management, data science and digital product management, and is the responsibility of Ute von Moers, previously Head of TV National at CH Media. Program planning for the national channels will be headed by Klaus Henning, who was previously responsible for program management at the 3 Plus broadcasting group.
"In-house productions" includes casting and production, as well as social media and digital content production. Christina Noell ad Interim, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Managing Director as well as former shareholder of the 3 Plus broadcasting group, will take over the management of the division. She is thus responsible for all in-house productions of CH Media's national TV channels and will lead the team together with Roger Elsener. Christina Noell will leave CH Media at her own request in the second half of 2020 and will continue to work in an advisory capacity.
As part of the new organization, Torsten Prenter, co-founder of the 3-Plus broadcasting group, will become Executive Advisor in the TV National division, reporting directly to Roger Elsener.
As part of the new organization, TV National employees will move to the new "Leonardo" production site in Zurich Oerlikon in the first half of 2021. The current locations in Schlieren and Zurich will remain in place until the move.
