N24 Chief Torsten Rossmann Also Becomes Sat.1 Managing Director

Torsten Rossmann, 44, managing director of the news channel N24, will become an additional managing director of Sat.1 on January 1, 2008. At the same time, Matthias Alberti, 44, moves up to chairman of the management board.

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At Sat.1, Rossmann will in future be responsible for information offerings and magazines, marketing and controlling. Volker Szezinski, 47, as deputy managing director of Sat.1, will manage German fiction, licensed programmes and co-productions in addition to programme planning. Sat.1 editor-in-chief Nik Niethammer, meanwhile, is leaving the broadcaster at the end of the year.