Time Out (broadcast)
time out was a sports magazine for Swiss television that was broadcast from 1990 to 2001. The moderators were Ueli Schmezer , Martin Masafret , Regula Späni and Oliver Bono , the editorial manager was Martin Masafret.
The concept of the show comes from Martin Masafret, Thomas von Grünigen and Elmar Deflorin . In an interview before the first broadcast, Willy Kym, Head of Sports a. i., the aim of the planned program is to “present sport in its social, economic and medical context”. The first edition of the half-hour broadcast aired on August 20, 1990. The broadcast time was on Mondays at 9 p.m. A program about Martina Hingis in April 1997 reached almost one million viewers. The last issue was broadcast on October 29, 2001.
The program contained reports, interviews and also art columns. Until 1997, Martin Masafret and Ueli Schmezer alternated moderating each other, after which Oliver Bono and Regula Späni took over this role. In some editions Birgit Steinegger appeared as «Elvira Iseli», other contributions came from, among others, Jean Tinguely , Stephan Eicher and Michael von Graffenried .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Swiss Television Media Relations: “time out” . Program portrait, as of January 2003, accessed on May 21, 2010