Günther Jauch replaces Sabine Christiansen

Sabine Christiansen only talks on ARD
until summer 2007, after which Günther Jauch will take over the
Sunday evening political panel. The 48-year-old journalist says goodbye
from ARD because she is moving abroad. Christiansen led and
presented the program named after her, "Sabine Christiansen",
for eight years. In the USA, Christiansen has been presenting
Earlier this year on the cable channel CNBC, the talk show "Global
Players". Christiansen's relocation is also related to this.
NDR director Jobst Plog praised Christiansen's achievement. She had
a completely new character to Sunday evenings on German television
Plog said. "Their great merit is that week after week, a
to win over an audience of millions for difficult political issues." The
NDR is the leading broadcaster for the Sunday evening talk show on ARD.
Günther Jauch has not only succeeded in making one of the most well-known
television faces of Germany, but even more so a
excellent journalists," explained ARD program director Günter Struve.
is certainly one of the most exciting tasks to be tackled next year in the
German television," said Jauch. The contracts are still
but not signed.