Risk (Swiss television)

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Risk was a game show on Swiss television . It ran on Monday evening after 8 p.m. from 1992 to 2000 and was a 60-minute live broadcast. It was moderated by Gabriela Amgarten , produced and edited by Ernie Soller until 1994. From 1994 Gabriela Amgarten was a producer and editor-in-chief. The first of a total of 152 programs was broadcast on February 24, 1992 and the last on December 11, 2000. Risk was developed as the successor to Tell-Star and was eventually replaced by Eiger, Mönch and Kunz . A fraud case in 1998 caused a particular stir .

Shipment concept

The main theme of the show was a mixture of quizzes and gambling with three candidates who competed against each other in four rounds. Two musical guests appeared and a prominent personality was invited. The celebrity was interviewed about his life and work and then had to affirm or deny claims about himself in the third round quiz game. The musical guests competed against each other. The candidates had to guess the winner in advance.

Game rounds

In the first round, the candidates had to assess themselves on the basis of claims and thus draw up a picture of the other players as precisely as possible. In the second round, the candidates had to discover errors in content in a film or an image. In the third round, true and false statements were made about a prominent guest, the truth of which had to be assessed by the candidates. After the third round, one candidate was eliminated.

In the final round, markers had to be placed on a “gold wheel”. A candidate could then set the marker if he correctly answered a general knowledge question.

Profit

A maximum of 400,000 francs could be won. The highest prize amount was 120,000 francs to a winner from Obwalden.

Fraud case

In the broadcast on January 5, 1998, a player won a prize of 95,000 francs. He had the correct answers written down by two accomplices sitting in the audience during the final rehearsal, as the test candidates were asked the same questions. The station management was later accused of being naïve. The fraud was discovered because when asked about the “head of the year 1997” ( Rolf Bloch ) the candidate gave the answer “ Viorel Moldovan ”, which would only have been correct in a subsequent question. In the days that followed, the candidate denied the fraud and spoke of coincidence. Only after the overwhelming burden of proof and confessions from his accomplices did he admit the fraud. He also admitted that he and his two accomplices had cheated on the same pattern two years earlier on the April 24, 1996 broadcast. As a result, on September 20, 1999, he was sentenced to four and a half months in prison on probation in the second instance (High Court). The judgment was upheld by the federal court on October 24, 2000.

The music producer Michael Kull took voice samples from the risk program and those that dealt with the fraud case and added dance music to them. In the spring of 1998, the song he created, “Moldovan”, made it to number 13 on the Swiss charts .

Varia

On October 11, 1993, the “Goldrad” quiz wheel, which was ultimately used for the drawing of the winner and the prize money, broke. Attempts to repair the bike while it was still on-air destroyed it even more. The broadcast finally had to be canceled and the end was made up for in the following broadcast.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Broadcast portrait, Chronik Schweizer Fernsehen ( memento from September 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed May 21, 2010
  2. ↑ 20 minutes online, Gabriela Amgarten leaving SF , May 17, 2010
  3. ↑ nachrichten.ch, Gabriela Amgarten leaves Swiss television , May 17, 2010
  4. ↑ Look, A scandal, this selection! , April 15, 2009
  5. ↑ 05.01.1998: “Das isch de Fuessballer Moldovan gsi” - Tommaso R. provides the biggest “bite” in Swiss television history. In: watson.ch from January 5, 2016
  6. ↑ "risk" -Betrüger R. conceded four and a half months , News.ch, December 15, 2000 (archive)
  7. ^ Hitparade.ch, Risi & Co. - Moldovan
  8. ↑ Breakdown at risk (1993) | SRF archive. YouTube.
  9. ↑ Swiss Television, Gabriela Amgarten Part 1 ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - The greatest Swiss hits, broadcast on November 16, 2008