Cologne, Germany -- Katrin Loschburg is the new joint managing director of German TV production giant Mme.
She replaces Christoph Post, who resigned earlier this month.
Loschburg has been an executive producer at Mme since 2005, where she shepherded through such hits as "Farmer Needs a Wife" on commercial network Rtl.
She has been deputy managing director at Mme since last summer. Loschburg will run Mme together with company founder Jorg A. Hoppe, reporting to company CEO Martin Hoffmann.
She replaces Christoph Post, who resigned earlier this month.
Loschburg has been an executive producer at Mme since 2005, where she shepherded through such hits as "Farmer Needs a Wife" on commercial network Rtl.
She has been deputy managing director at Mme since last summer. Loschburg will run Mme together with company founder Jorg A. Hoppe, reporting to company CEO Martin Hoffmann.
- 5/26/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE -- German television production group Me Myself and Eye saw revenues and earnings surge last year following the company's 37.5 million ($48.1 million) acquisition of Munich-based film production house Moviement and the success of several of the group's daily television formats. Hamburg-based MME booked revenues of 50.8 million ($65.2 million) last year, compared to 17.5 million in 2003. The group, which produces such show formats as Top Of The Pops, courtroom daily Family Court and such drama programs as Die Sitte (The Vice Squad), recorded pre-tax profits of 2.3 million ($2.9 million), against 0.8 million in 2003. Despite the ongoing malaise in the German advertising market, MME chief executive Martin Hoffmann said the group was well positioned to produce strong growth in 2005. Upcoming projects include music docusoap Big In America, which will air on RTL2; the event show Alive and Swinging -- A Tribute to the Rat Pack, which will bow on Pro7; and the documentary series 100%, which profiles top German athletes and will air in RTL primetime.
BERLIN -- In a major executive shake-up, German commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 has fired news and information director Claus Larass and Martin Hoffmann, head of Berlin-based channel Sat.1, and brought in Swiss commercial TV pioneer Roger Schawinski, ProSiebenSat.1 announced Thursday. Schawinski will replace Hoffmann as head of Sat.1. "This executive reorganization is an important step in further increasing the efficiency of our organization," ProSiebenSat.1 CEO Urs Rohner said in a statement. It was Haim Saban, whose Saban Capital Group controls ProSiebenSat.1, who courted Schawinski for the Sat.1 post. The journalist and entrepreneur brought commercial broadcasting to Switzerland in 1994 with TeleZuri, the country's first regional commercial broadcaster. In 1998, he launched Tele 24, Switzerland's first national commercial broadcaster. Schawinski also pioneered Swiss commercial radio with Radio 24. Tele 24, however, shut down in 2001 because of insufficient advertising.
- 12/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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