Eyes & Ears of Europe
Manuel Thalmann

Manuel Thalmann, Head of Format Development Young Audience Department SRF, Zürich

He began his career as a producer for a Swiss Music Television channel and has since worked for different Radio and TV-Stations all over Switzerland. For the past years he has been working for the public broadcaster in Switzerland. First for the youth radio station ‘SRF Virus’, afterwards he was the editorin-chief radio and television for the children’s program. For the past two years he has been in charge of the format development of the young audience department - producing and developing formats for young people in Switzerland - mainly web formats and formats for third party platforms.