Thomas Aigner (media entrepreneur)

Thomas Aigner, 2012

Thomas "Thomy" Aigner (born July 14, 1964 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna ) is a former Austrian radio and television presenter and journalist who works as a media entrepreneur and lecturer .

Training and entry into journalism

After graduating as a hotel clerk, he completed a journalistic training at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation in Vienna from 1983 and then worked as a moderator and editor of the Ö3 channel , including for the programs Treffpunkt Ö3 , Nachtexpress and Ö3 Wecker . On Austrian television he hosted in 1986 the first interactive game show Superflip .

Stay abroad and study in Los Angeles

After six years at ORF Vienna, he moved to Los Angeles to set up a correspondent's office. From there he supplied the ORF with numerous radio and TV reports as part of the series Jolly Joker , Seitenblicke and Look . He also worked for the German broadcasters Bayern 3 , Südwestfunk (SWF), Antenne Bayern and Radio FFN . For RTL Radio Luxemburg he produced 54 episodes of the weekly radio show Hollywood up close . He supplied German and Austrian newspapers and magazines (including Kurier , Kronen Zeitung , Wiener , Basta , Skip and Quick ) with reports from Los Angeles and the USA. On site he gained further experience with various radio and TV stations, such as KIIS-FM and the morning show Rick Dees in the morning . At UCLA he also completed the extension course 'Broadcast Management'.

Broadcasts on German television

From 1990 to 1992 Aigner was 580 episodes moderators for the TV game show Hopp or top radio station Tele 5 . The broadcaster tm3 broadcast over 1000 repetitions of this program in prime time.

As a result, he hosted the political quiz show Vox Box on VOX in 1994 and twelve episodes of the program Das ist Liebe, the show of interpersonal differences on ZDF .

In 1994/1995 he produced and hosted the program GongTalk (later: Talkline ), the first SimulCast TalkRadio . The program was broadcast simultaneously on Radio Gong and Radio NRW from 11 p.m. From midnight, Vox joined in.

In 1995 Aigner presented the program Internet, crazy new world for 3sat, which was broadcast simultaneously in Germany and in San Francisco .

In 1996/1997 Aigner netNite presented the first regular TV program on the subject of the Internet for ZDF. The midnight show welcomed guests like Hubert Burda or Jörg Kachelmann and achieved a market share of up to ten percent.

Own company and projects

Since 1995 he has been managing director of his own multimedia company AignerMEDIA (AME) GmbH (formerly: AME Aigner Media & Entertainment GmbH) in Munich .

From 1996–1997, AME produced netNite, the first regular Internet TV program on German television, for ZDF . From October 1998 he produced the multimedia program netRadio for the radio program Bayern 3 of Bayerischer Rundfunk . The show ran for a total of nine years.

In 1998 he developed the second-screen app URL-Push for netRadio .

In 1996, Aigner published the netNews1letter ( ISSN  1617-2116 ) in parallel to the radio and TV programs he produced . This had around 23,000 readers a week on topics related to the Internet.

In the case of the netNewsletter , the lack of the less common opt-in procedure resulted in a chain of legal proceedings. A subscriber made a mistake when entering the email address. In the last instance before the Federal Court of Justice, these legal proceedings led to the first anti-spam judgment in the history of the German Internet.

In a subsequent request to the Bundestag, the verdict was confirmed in terms of content, but "it should n't have hit the publisher of the netNewsletters because it was a free newsletter," said the then consumer protection minister Renate Künast . In the meantime, the BGH judgment has been made even more precise: "A newsletter that is the result of editorial activity enjoys the protection of freedom of broadcasting and freedom of expression, even if it contains advertising".

In 1998 he developed the cinematic implementation of the newly founded initiative Schools on the Net for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research .

At the turn of 1999/2000 he created the art project Screenhouse together with the Munich artist Markus Heinsdorff , in which Internet pages were projected onto a 900 m² outdoor area of ​​the HypoVereinsbank headquarters in Munich for ten days . The Minister of Culture Julian Nida-Rümelin praised the project in his laudation, "Screenhouse has succeeded for the first time in merging the digital world with the urban world".

In 2000, Endemol commissioned Aigner's agency with the multimedia implementation of the TV show Big Brother . By means of video streaming, 700,000 viewers were reached on the busiest day (entry Verona Feldbusch Pooth ). The scope of the project also included securing the domains and their rights management.

In 2001 Aigner got a partial license for the Munich radio frequency 92.4 MHz and supplied the FAZ Business Radio with daily program window net.fm .

Other projects were PAYperSTREAM , the TowerCam on the Munich Olympic Tower and the LogoToaster .

Most recently, Aigner mainly worked on the PilotsEYE.tv project . These are film recordings on board an aircraft, with the viewers being shown the flight from the pilots' point of view with six synchronized cameras in high definition .

Aigner regularly acts as a moderator and keynote speaker on the topics of the new media and the interlinking with the traditional media, including since 1996 for the Munich Media Days .

Teaching activities

• Between 2005 and 2014 he was head of the BAW Marketing Management course at the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing (BAW).
• Since 2011 he has been teaching at the Bavarian Academy for Television (BAF).
• Since 2014 he has been teaching at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) Department V - Production and Media Management.

Awards

• In 1985 Thomas Aigner was voted Austria's most popular radio host by the readers of the youth magazine MusicMan .
• In 2000, Thomas Aigner was voted one of the “100 most important Germans on the Internet” by the kressreport industry service.
• In 2000 he was awarded the OnlineStar for the format and preparation of the netRadio program on Bayern 3 .
• Aigner received a silver intermedia globe for the episode Nordpol from PilotsEYE.tv in 2009 as part of the World Media Festival in Hamburg .

literature

• Nora Frey: The Ö3 Story , Überreuter, 1988; ISBN 978-3-8000-9035-8 .
• Thomas Prantner, TOP 1000. People, culture, gastronomy, shopping and leisure , Überreuter, 1987; ISBN 978-3-8000-9025-9 .
• Eva Fritsch: Where prominent meals , Weilburg Verlag, 1986; ISBN 978-3-900100-40-7 .
• Jürgen Mayer: Streaming Media - new technology. Internet moving, colorful, louder , Markt + Technik, 2001: ISBN 978-3-8272-6143-4 .
• Thomas Aigner: Netzgeschichten - The legends & myths about the Internet and PC , Ullstein, 2005; ISBN 978-3-548-41238-2 .
• Michael Reufsteck and Stefan Niggemeier: Das Fernsehlexikon , Goldmann, 2005; ISBN 978-3-442-30124-9 .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Aigner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thomas Aigner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Vita Thomas Aigner (PDF; 126 kB)
• Profile Thomas Aigner at www.kress.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The audience as a television producer "Great moments on ORF (2015) ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. 
2. ↑ Interview with Julia Roberts (Skip 1991) ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Interview with Harrison Ford (Skip 1991) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Which cult show do you want back? (Image)
5. ↑ The television lexicon for Hopp or Top and Talkline at Vox
6. ↑ Internet, crazy new world, University of Dortmund
7. ^ Spam judgment of the BGH, I ZR 81/01 of March 11, 2004 E-mail advertising guiding principle decision
8. ↑ Cologne Higher Regional Court in May 2010, AZ 6U 48/09
9. ↑ Project "Screenhouse"
10. ↑ "Total surveillance is my goal" . In: The world
11. ↑ Ernst Corinth: Turned by the digital shredder. At: Heise
12. ↑ Fight against illegal Big Brother pages (chip) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ Claudia Brunst: Cult of Empty Spaces. In: Berliner Zeitung
14. ↑ Bettina Koch: Bread and Soap for the TV People . In: Der Spiegel
15. ↑ Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen No. 88 (PDF; 31 kB)
16. ↑ Shopping for Big Brother by Steve Kettman (WIRED 2000) engl.
17. ↑ Protection against legal problems in the Internet by Prof. Dr. Zimmerling, Ulrich Werner.
18. ↑ UMTS webcam on the Munich Olympic Tower
19. ↑ LogoToaster project
20. ↑ Review Pilot's Eye TV special route Alps ( memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
21. ↑ Filming in the cockpit of the A380 (Kurier) ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
22. ↑ Flight photos above the clouds (Colofoto)
23. ↑ Panel “Connected TV” (Medientage 2012) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ↑ Marketing studies at the BAW ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
25. ↑ Lecturer directory BAF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
26. ^ Winner of the World Media Festival 2009