SRF Sport: New department management announced
As of January 1, 2016, there will be a change in the organization at SRF Sport. Roland Mägerle, Head of the Sports Department at SRF since September 15, 2015, has put together his new management team.
In the future, the department management at SRF Sport will consist of five people who are responsible for all media (TV, radio and multimedia). "In-depth discussions and a sound process analysis gave me a clear picture. The new lean organization will meet future requirements in the digital age. I'm looking forward to tackling the coming challenges together with the department management," is Mägerle's initial conclusion.
Peter Staub, previously head of the "Sportpanorama" editorial department, will become the new editor-in-chief at SRF Sport and also deputy to Roland Mägerle. Staub has been with Schweizer Fernsehen since 1997 and has held various positions. For the past eleven years, he has been in charge of the Sunday program "Sportpanorama." He learned his journalistic craft at Sportinformation and the Tages-Anzeiger.
Susan Schwaller will take over as Head of Live. She has been working for Swiss Television for 15 years and started her career in the information department. In 2007, she switched to sports and was responsible, among other things, for project management of the Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2013 Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Burgdorf. Schwaller was also already deputy head of the sportlive editorial team.
Mario Denzler will head the new News and Formats division, which includes all radio and TV programs as well as SRF Sport's multimedia offering. He will also be deputy to Editor-in-Chief Peter Staub. A former chief of staff and program developer at SRF Sport, Denzler has spent the last three years in SRF's directorate as project manager for site development at Leutschenbach. Denzler has been with Schweizer Fernsehen since 1997.
The management team is completed by Stefan Wagner. He takes over the position of Head of Projects. Wagner has worked at Schweizer Fernsehen since 1993. From 1995 to 2006, he hosted various sports formats. During this time, he was also head of department sportaktuell and deputy head of editorial sportlive. In 2006, he moved to the Business Unit Sport and managed the projects World and European Football Championships and Alpine World Ski Championships for SRG SSR.
The areas of news and formats and live will be additionally divided into editorial teams. Christoph Sterchi, the current head of editorial at sportradio, takes over as head of editorial at News TV and Radio and becomes Mario Denzler's deputy. Roland Schneider, who has been in charge of multimedia up to now, will be responsible for editorial management of multimedia. Reto Gafner, previously Head of Editorial Football, is now Head of Editorial Formats and thus responsible for programs such as "Sportpanorama" and "Sportlounge". Daniel Bolliger, soccer reporter/interviewer and "Sportaktuell" producer, takes over as editorial director of the accompanying programs. He will also be deputy to Susan Schwaller. The new Chief of Staff of SRF Sport will be Notker Ledergerber. The organization will take effect on January 1, 2016.
