17th October 2010, NZZ am Sonntag Ringier announces Dr. Stutz Ringier dissolve his contract with the TV and magazine physician Samuel Stutz. The reason: Stutz was intrigued by the Federal Office of Communications against the publisher.
Samuel "Sami" Stutz is a dynamic man. He joined the late eighties bets " that "on the nose and certain purely by the temperature of water. He hosted from 2001 to 2007, the Ringier broadcast
"Health Consultation" and also presented an issue even under the influence of Ecstasy. Above all, Stutz got sick for years prominent in the country before the camera - the trio of Walter Eugster Andreas Müller by Adolf Ogi. Thus, the six-time father not only to the "doctor of the nation" but also one of the hallmarks of
Ringier, the largest media group in Switzerland. For twenty years, the 49-year-old Stutz now works for the publisher - since the summer of 2009 as a magazine doctor and solid free-lancer for the
"Schweizer Illustrierte" where he writes every week about all possible and impossible diseases, bringing the same wealthy advertisers into the magazine. This is now concluded, however. «Ringier has a contract with Samuel Stutz 31 October »disbanded in 2010, said Edi Estermann, communications chief of the publisher. And: ". The reasons for the termination of the contract was not disclosed agreed" What the media company's employee accused of and what was the trigger for the termination is in an e-mail that
Hansjürg "Fibo" German in September to business partners of Ringier has sent. German is responsible for added "It is now confirmed that various methods have been the Federal Office of Communications (Ofcom) raised against our mission through initiatives of the former moderator, Dr. Samuel Stutz: the program" Health Consultation "and in his e-mail reads . Because of these incidents Ringier no longer require the services of Dr. Stutz at the Swiss magazine. "OFCOM out since December 2009, a supervisory procedure against" health consultation ", because of suspicion of violation of sponsorship and advertising provisions in the radio and TV Act (RTA). Already in 2009 and 2005, Ofcom had issued orders against the shipment because of violations of the RTA.
Samuel Stutz defends himself against the charge of his many years of work and client eloquently and with several phone calls to the editors of the "NZZ am Sonntag". In summary, he states: It had featured regularly with the Federal Office of Communications in contact because he had to clarify what was permissible for his new television program that he plans to. "In this context I have discussed with Ofcom and concrete programs of
," he says. Anders did not clarify what is allowed and what is not. "If one draws from this, I would Ringier and blackened, that's a clumsy red herring of a landmark supervisory procedures for product placement."
And what does the Office of the story? "OFCOM was with Samuel Stutz because of his new mission in contact," Susan Marx holds firmly by the Department of Radio and Television. "Any information from him about were for the opening of the supervisory process but not decisive." OFCOM, the broadcast was monitored by itself and, according to Marx, opened on the basis of these checks as a method. However: OFCOM any informant would in no way make it public.
