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From the point of view of entertainer Thomas Gottschalk, the public television channels have already lost the battle for the young audience.
"Chasing after this target group through digital-only productions has nothing to do with the public service mandate, but is an expression of the well-founded fear of going under without a sound," said the former "Wetten, dass ..?" -Moderator of the newspapers of the Funke media group (Wednesday).
"Those in charge should have had this fear 20 years ago, when there was still something to be saved," said the 70-year-old: "The directors were still happily sitting around with red wine and turning the cheese platter."
He also doesn't have any godparent recipes, said Gottschalk, but if you try to compete with Netflix and enter the streaming business, he can only warn against it.
The situation with radio is different: “The ARD pop stations have largely left the commercial competition behind.
Nothing is lost there, there is still a lot to be gained for the future. "
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He is a big fan of the public service system.
“I am also a creature of this system, to which I owe my career,” said Gottschalk.
Precisely because he believes in the public law system, he “doesn't want to watch in silence as it is administered to death and misinterpreted the signs of the times”.
Anger speech at clubhouse
Gottschalk had already held a three-minute angry speech against public broadcasting in a talk in the audio app Clubhouse on Sunday evening.
This is reported by the media service turi2 with its boss Peter Turi as an ear witness.
Gottschalk called the difference between demands and reality on public television “simply catastrophic”.
He was "full of holy anger, what concerns the opportunities of public television and how little is made of it."
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At around 7.10 p.m., PR professional Wolfram Winter brought the 70-year-old show master to the virtual audio stage during a talk with Patricia Schlesinger, director of the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company (RBB) - and Gottschalk started right away: “We're sending ourselves here in an administrative juggernaut where the institutions do not treat each other to the black under the nails, "he said according to the report.
He is of the opinion “that there are now Corona teams that are already afraid that the epidemic will be brought under control, because then all crisis teams will be crushed.
They can do that. "
The public broadcasters are not even able to promote their own programs and put them in the window, “because then the MDR says: Wait a minute, we're broadcasting against the SWR in the third party.
They step on each other's feet, there is no overall management behind them. "
In the discussion that followed, Gottschalk said that he sees the future of ARD “more on the radio”, where he perceives “closer listening” and “partly brilliant contributions”.
There are “unbelievably great features” on the culture waves - that is “the public service mandate”.
The criticism did not stop Gottschalk, however, from moderating an eight-part TV show series with the title “Again 18!” This year for Südwestrundfunk (SWR).
Since January 2020, Gottschalk has also hosted a two-hour radio show every Monday afternoon together with Constantin Zöller and a podcast with Nicola Müntefering every two weeks.