Tele24

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Tele24 was a national Swiss private television broadcaster owned by Roger Schawinski . The program aired from October 5, 1998 to November 30, 2001.

owner

When Tele24 started, the company was owned 50% by Roger Schawinski's Belcom Holding AG and 25% each by the two media companies Ringier and Tamedia . In 1999 Ringier sold half of its 25% stake to Belcom Holding AG and Tamedia. 62.5% of the shares were held by Belcom Holding AG and 37.5% by Tamedia. In August 2001 Tamedia bought Belcom Holding AG without participating in Tele24, which was subsequently discontinued at the end of November 2001.

history

Tele24 developed from the Zurich regional broadcaster TeleZüri , which was also founded by Roger Schawinski. Tele24 and TeleZüri also shared a program space in the Zurich region. Tele24 and TeleZüri were produced at the same location.

  • 1998: Tele24 starts broadcasting
  • 1999: A fund of Credit Suisse First Boston has acquired a 40% stake in Belcom Holding AG and thus indirectly to Tele24.
  • 2001: Belcom Holding AG is sold to Tamedia.
  • 2001: November 30, 2001 is the last broadcast day of Tele24.

program

Tele24 offered a TV program with exclusively self-produced programs . The programs were broadcast several times.

Information broadcasts:

  • SwissNews : News program with a strong focus on Swiss topics. SwissNews were broadcast live at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. At 7 p.m. the program was broadcast again and repeated every hour from 9 p.m.
  • Money : Magazine with information on stock market events and interviews with business leaders
  • 24 minutes : reportage magazine
  • Live broadcasts : Current events such as the election of a new Federal Council or important press conferences (e.g. on the Swissair crisis) were broadcast live.

Talk shows:

  • TalkDaily : Daily talk show with one guest. The viewers could call into the show. Tele24 boss and co-owner Roger Schawinski moderated numerous issues of TalkTaily.
  • Silvan Grütter : Weekly talk show
  • Fadegrad : Weekly talk show, hosted by Christian Handelsman. Was introduced to replace Silvan Grütter's talk show after Silvan Grütter switched to TV3.
  • SonnTalk : Every Sunday broadcast program with journalists and politicians on current topics of the past week
  • Bistro : Daily talk and entertainment program, hosted by Christian Handelsman

Entertainment programs:

  • SwissDate : Weekly dating show
  • Inside : Weekly people magazine
  • Blöff : Quiz show
  • Lifestyle : a program in which celebrities were invited and interviewed
  • Venus & Mars : entertaining program on the subject of relationship problems
  • Jukebox : Daily broadcast about music , moderated by Reto Peritz (Tele24 started with this broadcast on the first day).

General information

So-called video journalists (“VJs”) produced the news items. The VJ was a journalist and cameraman at the same time. This enabled Tele24 to produce cheaply and quickly.

Tele24's program was broadcast in most Swiss cable networks and unencrypted via satellite .

According to Telecontrol and SRG Research Service, Tele24's market share between 1999 and 2001 was between 1.0 and 1.1%. (15 to 49 year olds, 6 to 11 p.m.)

At the beginning of 2001 Tele24 announced that the program Money would be outsourced under the direction of Markus Gilli to its own television station called Money24 , which would have been the first news and financial station in Switzerland . However, given the financial situation of Tele24, this seems very unrealistic from today's perspective. Whether and how far this project was developed is still unknown.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schawinski gives up. In: persoenlich.com . August 22, 2001.
  2. ↑ Data and facts on the Swiss TV advertising market. A contribution to the discussion on the new RTVG. Use of the regional language channels German-speaking Switzerland ( Memento from November 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 4 kB). Prognos, p. 39.