ProSiebenSat. 1-Chief Thomas Ebeling leaves media group prematurely in February 2018. Ebeling and supervisory board agreed with this agreement, DAX company communicated with m. His last appearance after nine years will be presentation of balance sheet on 22 February 2018. Ebeling has been at top of group since beginning of 2009 and still had a contract until mid 2019.

The 58-year-old had recently derogatoryed remarks about viewers of his own channel critique. "There are people, a bit obese and a bit poor, who still like to sit on sofa, sit back and be happy to entertain. This is a core target group that does not change, "he said recently before stock analysts. He later said that it was a poster-tipping act; By no means did he want to discredit his own TV viewers.

Ebeling had already informed company of last extension of contract that it was no longer available for furr renewal. Against this background, supervisory board had started search for a successor "some time Ago" and will name it "in a given time".

ProSiebenSat. 1 fights with declining spectator numbers and advertising revenue. Purchased US series such as Empire or this is US flopped. In addition, ProSiebenSat lost 1 spectators to competing broadcasters and internet portals such as Netflix and Amazon. In third quarter, Munich broadcasting chain had to write off 170 million euros in program assets.

Date Of Update: 20 November 2017, 12:03