Ringier: Television division reorganized - Corinna Scholz takes over as head of division

Corinna Scholz has been Head of Program Strategy and Planning at Schweizer Fernsehen since 2007, as well as Channel Manager HD Suisse. After completing her degree in communication sciences at the University of Munich, the now 41-year-old worked in various positions, including as a manager and director at NBC Universal Global Studios Networks Germany with stays abroad in New York and South Africa.
At Ringier, Scholz will gradually take over Fibo Deutsch's tasks for Presse TV, Sat.1 Schweiz and Teleclub, as well as responsibility for the business areas of the former Ringier TV department. The current Head of Ringier TV, Mathias Ruch, will leave the company at the end of September; 70-year-old Fibo Deutsch will continue to advise the management on television and journalistic projects as Senior Advisor.

The departments
In future, the new Television division will consist of six departments: Entertainment & Fiction, Press TV, Web TV, TV Investments, Production Center and Business Productions.
The newly created department Entertainment & Fictionwhich develops formats and programs and is responsible for the implementation and production of TV entertainment formats, will be headed by Corinna Scholz on an interim basis. For example, the formats "5 against 5", "al dente" and "Die grössten Schweizer Talente" are produced for SF.
As before, Benno Zimmermann is responsible for the Production centerwhich offers its services internally and externally and produces sports studio programs for Teleclub and Swisscom TV, for example.
The department Business Productions is being strengthened and expanded. Corporate communications solutions, TV commercials and image films as well as communications training are offered here.
The department Web TV headed by Pascal Fessler, produces multimedia content for Blick.ch and Schweizer-illustrierte.ch, among others.
Fritz Spring is also Editorial Coordinator in the new organization Press TV Programmes that are organized by Ringier. These include "Gesundheit Sprechstunde", "Motorshow", "Cash TV" and "Sonntagsblick Standpunkte".

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