Thomas Aigner
Thomas " Thomy " Aigner (* July 14, 1964 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna ) is a former Austrian radio and television presenter and journalist who has worked as a media entrepreneur and lecturer today.
Training and entry into the journalism
After graduating in hotel management, he completed in 1983 a journalism training at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation in Vienna and then worked as a presenter and editor of the radio station Ö3, among other things, for shipments meeting Ö3, Night Express and Ö3 Wecker. In the Austrian television he hosted the first interactive game show Superflip 1986.
Abroad and study in Los Angeles
After six years at the ORF Vienna, he moved to Los Angeles to start a correspondent office. From there he supplied the ORF with numerous radio and TV reports, as part of the mission series Jolly Joker, leers and look. In addition, he was also German channels like Bayern 3, the Southwest Radio (SWF), Antenne Bayern and Radio FFN active. For RTL Radio Luxembourg up close he produced 54 episodes of the weekly radio show Hollywood. German and Austrian newspapers and magazines (including courier, Kronen Zeitung, Viennese, Basta, Skip and Quick) he supplied with reports from Los Angeles and the United States. He gained further experience at various radio and TV stations, so at KIIS -FM morning show and the Rick Dees in the morning on site. At UCLA, he completed parallel study Broadcast Management.
Broadcasts on German television
From 1990 to 1992 was 580 episodes long Aigner moderator of the TV game show Pass or top radio station Tele 5 The transmitter tm3 sent over 1000 repetitions of this broadcast in prime time.
As a result, he hosted the 1994 political quiz show Vox Box VOX as well as 12 episodes of the program This is love that show of interpersonal differences in the ZDF.
1994/95 he produced and hosted the broadcast Gong Talk ( later: Talkline ), the first simulcast Talk Radio. The program was broadcast simultaneously on Radio Gong, Radio NRW from 23.00 clock. From midnight Vox switched to it.
1995 moderated Aigner for 3sat broadcast the Internet, crazy new world that was broadcast in Germany and in San Francisco at the same time.
The 1996/97 moderated Aigner netNite the first regular TV program about the Internet for ZDF. The midnight show welcome guests as Hubert Burda and Jörg tile man, reaching up to 10 percent market share.
Own company and projects
Since 1995 he has been managing his own multimedia company AignerMEDIA (AME ) GmbH ( formerly: AME Aigner Media & Entertainment GmbH ) in Munich.
1996-1997 AME produced for ZDF with netNite the first regular internet TV broadcast on German television. As of October 1998, he produced the multimedia broadcast NETRADIO for the radio program Bayern 3 of the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Overall, the program was broadcast in nine years.
For NETRADIO he developed in 1998 the Second- Screen App URL Push.
Parallel to the produced by him, radio and TV broadcasts Aigner issued the netNewsletter ( ISSN 1617-2116 ). This week had about 23,000 readers about topics related to the Internet.
When it came netNewsletter by the absence of the less used opt-in process to a lawsuit because a subscriber had a mistake in specifying the e- mail address. This trial led after eight years in the last instance before the Supreme Court for the first spam judgment in the history of the German Internet.
In a subsequent request to the Bundestag, the sentence was indeed confirmed on substance, but " it would have been the editor of the netNewsletters are not taken, because this is a free newsletter was ," said the former Consumer Protection Minister Renate Künast. Meanwhile, was the Supreme Court ruling further elaborates, "The newsletter, which is the result of editorial activity, enjoys the protection of broadcasting and freedom of expression, even if it contains advertising".
In 1998, he developed the film version of the newly founded Initiative Schools go online for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
At the turn of 1999/2000 he created together with the Munich artist Markus Heinsdorff the art project screen house, in which ten days, web pages were projected onto a 900 m² large outer surface of the headquarters of the HypoVereinsbank in Munich. The Minister of Culture, Julian Nida -Rümelin praised the project in his speech, "Screen House, it is the first time to merge the digital world with the urban world ."
In 2000, Endemol Aigner authorize agency with all the multimedia implementation of the TV show Big Brother .. Using video streaming ( Verona catchment area Busch) were most day reached 700,000 viewers. This demand has been realized with a self-programmed server load distribution. However, the project scope included the securing of the domains and their rights are exercised.
In 2001 Aigner received a partial license for the Munich radio frequency 92.4 MHz and supplied the FAZ Business radio with the daily program window net.fm.
Other projects included PAYperSTREAM that TowerCam at the Munich Olympic Tower and the logo toaster.
Last Aigner worked primarily at the PilotsEYE.tv project. It is filming on board an aircraft, the audience with six synchronized cameras in high resolution (High Definition) is shown the flight from the perspective of the pilots.
Regularly Aigner acts as moderator and keynote speaker on the topics of new media and the entanglement with the traditional media, including in 1996 for the Munich Media Days.
Teaching activities
Since 2005 he has been principal investigator of the study program Marketingwirt BAW at the Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing.
Since 2011 he teaches at the BAF, the Bavarian Academy of Television.
Awards
1985 Thomas Aigner was chosen by readers of the magazine for young people MusicMan the most popular radio host in Austria.
In 2000, Thomas Aigner from industry service kressreport the "100 most important German on the Internet " one of.
In 2000 he was awarded for the format and processing of the shipment NETRADIO Bayern 3 OnlineStar.
For subsequent north pole of PilotsEYE.tv Aigner 2009 received at the World Media Festival in Hamburg a silver intermedia-globe.