Roger Schawinski

Roger Schawinski ( born June 11, 1945 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist and entrepreneur. He was from 2003 to 2006 Managing Director of the German private television station Sat.1. In Switzerland, he is known as a media pioneer and television presenter.

Life and work

Schawinski founded the to date most successful broadcast on Swiss television, the consumer magazine Kassensturz, the first Swiss private radio station Radio 24, the first Swiss private television station TeleZüri, the Radio 1 for adults and the first national private television station Tele 24 He hosted TV shows, gave newspapers and periodicals and lay there with many people and institutions, in particular with the authorities and those responsible for the public broadcaster.

Partly because of his extroverted personality and his " Zürischnurre » (Zurich snout ) is Schawinski in Switzerland a popular subject for satirists and cartoonists - known is the parody of his person by Viktor Giacobbo. In 2009, he won a jury award of Arosa Humor Festival, the Arosa Humor blade due to its versatile media interaction.

Training

Roger Schawinski comes from Zurich. As a child of a textile merchant, he grew up in the working class neighborhood in Zurich Aussersihl. After business school at the college Tight Schawinski acquired at the age of 21 years, the maturity on the second chance. He studied economics at the University of St. Gallen ( HSG). In 1973 he was with the work of the socio -economic factors of tourism in developing countries: The case of Guatemala doctorate in the field of economics. During his studies he spent some time in the United States and completed an internship at the New Press in Hanover.

Start at Swiss Television and Radio 24

From 1972, he worked as a journalist for the Swiss television. He founded and chaired from 1974, the consumer magazine Kassensturz. From 1977 until his dismissal in 1978, he worked as chief editor of the Migros daily newspaper " The deed ".

In 1979 he founded the first Swiss private radio Radio 24 that sent first as an Italian station from Pizzo Groppera in northern Italy with the then most powerful FM radio station in the world as a radio pirate in Switzerland, before it, one for support by the then youth movement and general public, was licensed in 1983 in Switzerland, among other private radio broadcasters. In April 1981, Schawinski was awarded an award from the American Billboard magazine.

Film producer, city magazine bonus, Opus Radio

In the 1980s, Schawinski tried without success as a film producer and founded the Zurich city magazine bonus, which was published until 1996. In 1991 he founded the classical radio station Opus Radio, the lack of definitive approval had to suspend operations again in 1992.

TeleZüri and Tele 24

Schawinski founded TeleZüri the first private television station Local in Switzerland, which went on air in 1994. There he hosted, among others, the talk show " Talk daily ," where he chatted with guests. 1995 Schawinski was awarded the Tele- Price, 1996 with the Zurich Radio and Television Award.

In 1998 he founded with Tele 24 the first nationwide private TV station in Switzerland, for which he was honored in the same year with the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize. In 1999, the Swiss bank Credit Suisse 40 percent of the shares of Schawinski Belcom Holding AG, which owns the various companies were located. The Swiss media company Tamedia AG took over in August 2001 for 80 million Swiss francs Radio 24 and TeleZüri. Tele 24 was adjusted accordingly.

Sat.1

On 4 December 2003 Schawinski was managing director of the private television station Sat.1. With some announcements, among other things with the show Anke Late Night, he fell at the beginning of criticism. In June 2005, his contract was extended for two years. The market share of Sat.1 rose under Schawinski of 10.2 percent ( 2003) to 10.9 percent (2005) and decreased in 2006 to 9.8 percent. As Schawinski took over the station, he made no profit in 2006 he achieved a record net profit of more than 200 million euros. In late November 2006, Schawinski announced that he would leave early Sat.1 own initiative, at year-end 2006.

Radio 1

Beginning of October 2007 bought Schawinski by Frédéric Dru the Zurich Radio Tropic to start from a new radio station. The new station called Radio 1 was on 17 March 2008 for the first time on the air.

Schawinski wrote from 2009 to 2013 a weekly column in the Sunday newspaper. In 1987 he was at the launch of the newspaper columnist team of the sheet.

Mission " Schawinski » - comeback for Swiss TV 2011

Since August 22, 2011 Schawinski moderated the eponymous talk show " Schawinski " every Monday discussed at SRF 1 Schawinski with representatives from politics and business.

Acquisition of Radio 105

In January 2014 Schawinski took over the station Radio 105 with the aim of integrating it into Radio 1. The station had previously need to declare bankruptcy.

Private

Schawinski is married for the third time since 1996. He has a daughter with his current wife Gabriella Sontheim. The first marriage in 1970 remained childless. From the second marriage two children come from 1981.

Schawinski lives in Zurich.

In March 2014 his autobiography was published Who am I?

Works

Several of his books have been bestsellers in Switzerland:

• The socio-economic factors of tourism in developing countries: The case of Guatemala. Haupt Verlag, Bern 1973, ISBN 3-258-01360-8. (Dissertation)
• Radio 24 24 hours nonstop. The story of the first independent radio in Switzerland. Publishing Radio 24, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-907755-00-6.
• Kassensturz - the book for television program on consumption, money and labor. Benteli Verlag, Bern, ISBN 3-7165-0043-7.
• Poisoned. How we built a house which made ​​us sick. Unions -Verlag, Zurich, 1986, ISBN 3-293-00113-0. (together with Ina Schawinski and Ueli Kasser )
• The ego project. Lust for life to 100 mvg, Landsberg / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-478-73380-4.
• TV Monopoly. The inside story. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-280-05032-4.
• Who is billionaire? The stock market hype and its makers. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-05060- X.
• The TV trap. From the sense of mission to the television business Kein & Aber, Zurich 2007, ISBN 3-0369-5505-4.
• Who am I? Kein & Aber, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0369-5693-0. ( Preprint; review )