SRG: Top posts filled - further savings package agreed

At the request of the Regional Board of SRG Deutschschweiz, the Board of Directors elected Diego Yanez as the new Editor-in-Chief of TV and Lis Borner as Editor-in-Chief of Radio. Hansruedi Schoch will head the Programs department, Nathalie Wappler will be responsible for Culture and Urs Leutert will be Head of Sport. The new crew will work together with "Super Director" Rudolf Matter will usher in the convergence era at the beginning of next year. Matter also led the selection process, as SRG writes.
The new TV editor-in-chief Diego Yanez (pictured below) is an experienced television producer: the 52-year-old has been working for Swiss television for 22 years, since 2007 as head of news and deputy editor-in-chief. The 50-year-old Lis Borner (pictured below), who will become Editor-in-Chief of Radio, has been Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Information at Schweizer Radio DRS since 2007. As such, she is responsible for morning primetime and heads DRS 4 News. She started at "Echo der Zeit" in 1991.

The 44-year-old Hansruedi Schoch (pictured below), who will also become deputy director of SRF, has been editor-in-chief of Swiss Television since October 2009. He has worked there for 16 years, including as a reporter and producer of "Tagesschau" and "10vor10". From 2003 to 2009, he was deputy editor-in-chief of Swiss Television.

The new Head of Culture, the 42-year-old Nathalie Wapplerhas been working for Swiss television since 2005: First as editor and producer of the magazine "Kulturplatz", since the beginning of 2008 as editorial director of "Sternstunden". Urs Leutertwho has been in charge of sports at SRF, has headed the sports department at Swiss Television since 1991.

New savings package adopted
Also on Monday, the Board of Directors approved a further savings package amounting to CHF 20 million. The savings are to be made in salaries, through cuts in various areas and a reduction in events and media partnerships. The target is savings of 58 million francs. SRG has calculated this amount as feasible. Savings packages of over CHF 100 million per year are already being implemented. There will be no program cuts.

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