Work : Begin Major Project 28 November 1979 (Radia 24 started transmitting, illegaly) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Work : Great Achievement 1 November 1983 (Radio 24 started as a legal private station in Zürich) chart Placidus Equal_H.
Swiss journalist, writer and entrepreneur. He earned a PhD in economics from University of St. Gallen (1973). He then workd for Swiss national TV and became popular as the creator (1974) of Swiss consumer watchdog program Kassensturz. In 1979, he founded Switzerlands first commercial radio station Radio 24, which originally transmitted illegaly from a peak in the Italian alps to the Zürich area. In 1994, he launched a nationwide television channel called Tele Züri, later expanded to the nation wide Tele 24. In 2003, he gained international status when he joined the German Television network "Sat. 1" and became the managing director for three consecutive years. On 2 March 2014, he published his autobiography "Wer bin ich" (Who am I). Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Mon Jun 11 1945 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birth Place: Zurich, Switzerland