Thomas Schäppi succeeds Heiner Hug at "Tagesschau"
Swiss television's "Tagesschau" will have a new editorial director from the beginning of next year. The post will be taken by 52-year-old Thomas Schäppi, the current head of "Schweiz aktuell". He will succeed Heiner Hug, who is retiring at the end of 2008.
Swiss television's "Tagesschau" will have a new editorial director from the beginning of next year. The post will be taken by 52-year-old Thomas Schäppi, the current head of "Schweiz aktuell". He succeeds Heiner Hug, who is retiring at the end of 2008 after five years as editorial director of the news program.
Schäppi has been working for Swiss television for 22 years. He began his career as an editor and presenter on the early evening magazine show "Karussell". In 1988, he switched to the regional magazine program "Schweiz aktuell", which was still called "DRS aktuell" at the time. There he worked as an editor, presenter and producer and took over as editor-in-chief in 1999. According to SF, Schäppi initiated and managed various special projects for "Schweiz aktuell" in recent years, including the summer series "Leben wie zu Gotthelfs Zeiten", "Das Internat" and "Pfahlbauer von Pfyn - Steinzeit live". For the entertainment department, he was executive producer of the program "Traumjob - nur einer schafft es".
Schäppi has been working for Swiss television for 22 years. He began his career as an editor and presenter on the early evening magazine show "Karussell". In 1988, he switched to the regional magazine program "Schweiz aktuell", which was still called "DRS aktuell" at the time. There he worked as an editor, presenter and producer and took over as editor-in-chief in 1999. According to SF, Schäppi initiated and managed various special projects for "Schweiz aktuell" in recent years, including the summer series "Leben wie zu Gotthelfs Zeiten", "Das Internat" and "Pfahlbauer von Pfyn - Steinzeit live". For the entertainment department, he was executive producer of the program "Traumjob - nur einer schafft es".
