If you want to understand television today, read the "Handelsblatt". Okay - in the past, the underhanded marginalia that turned into media blizzard bombs were in BLICK, BILD, HörZu, TR7 or directly from Tele editor-in-chief Hans-Ulrich Indermaur. Today, I locate the most important TV news between lines like "Drugstore giant - billionaire with principles" or "Building materials - mega-merger in the cement industry". And not between "Cuddly sleepyhead" and "Tumult in Legoland". So I came russia rcs data across an interview in the "Handelsblatt" with the ZDF director Thomas Bellut. Truly: enlightening! Bellut said about the future of "Wetten, dass...?":
"This year we will see how strong the brand still is." If the ratings continue to fall, will Markus Lanz be coming to an end very soon? "A further drop in ratings would weaken the show very much." Bellut explains the ratings pain threshold: "That would only be reached if Markus Lanz really suffered damage." His talk show "Markus Lanz", with three shows a week, has a constant rating. If that were to change, then "we really would have to prevent Markus Lanz from being dismantled too." In plain language: ZDF director announced that Markus Lanz is more important to him than the ZDF flagship "Wetten, dass..?". That he, the ZDF director, would let "Wetten, dass.