Thomas Aigner
Thomas "Thomy" Aigner (born 14 July 1964 in Vienna) is a former Austrian TV-Entertainer and a current documentary film producer and lecturer.
Radio and Television
He began his career as a journalist in 1983 at ORF in Vienna, and then hosted radio-shows at Ö3.
In 1986 he debuted on public TV-channel FS1 with the first interactive TV-game show Superflip.
- (1990) Hopp oder Top (Sale of the Century) for 580 shows on German's channel Tele5.[1][2][3][4]
- (1993) VoxBox, newsquix on channel VOX
- (1994) Das ist Liebe (That’s amore) on channel ZDF
- (1995) SimulCast TalkRadio show GongTalk (later: Talkline)
- (1995) Internet, crazy new world on channel 3sat and BayTV San Francisco [5]
- (1996) netNite - infotainment about the "new Internet" on ZDF
Work and Study in Los Angeles
In 1998, he established a correspondent's office in Los Angeles. He provided ORF with radio and TV features for the series Jolly Joker,
Seitenblicke and Look as well as German radio stations such as Bayern 3. For RTL Radio Luxemburg he produced 54 episodes
of the weekly radio program Hollywood Hautnah (Closeup Hollywood).
During his study of "Broadcast Management" at UCLA, he worked as a trainee for KIIS-FM and the show Rick Dees in the morning.
Projects
In 1996, he produced the first Internet TV show on German TV, netNite, for ZDF. Starting 1998 he developed and produced the tri-medial show netRadio (broadcast, audiostream and live-cam) for Bayern3 radio station of the ARD/Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Therefore, he developed an early Second-Screen application named URLPush.[6]
Along with the Radio and TV shows, Aigner published the netNewsletter [7](ISSN 1617-2116). The newsletter served 23.000 subscribers.
This netNewsletter - and the lack of a Double opt-in feature in 1996 – led to the first decision relevant to unsolicited commercial email from the federal supreme court of Germany BGH. A subscriber had mistyped his email address.[8]
Meanwhile, the ruling has been defined even more precisely: "A newsletter that is the result of an editorial activity has both freedom of broadcasting and of expression, even if it contains advertisements".[9]
At the turn of millennium, he co-created the art project Screenhouse, with artist Markus Heinsdorff, where websites were projected onto a 900 square metres (9,700 square feet)
exterior surface of the HypoVereinsbank headquarters in Munich.[10]
In the year 2000, Endemol contracted Aigner's agency for the multimedia implementation of the first Big Brother TV sequel in Germany.[11]
In the year 2001, Aigner obtained a part-licence for the radio frequency 92.4 MHz and began broadcasting on FAZ Businessradio with the daily program net.fm, focussed on new media.[12]
Recently, Aigner has been predominantly working on the TV-documentary series PilotsEYE.tv.[13] The actual 13 sequels show the fascination of flying through the eyes of the pilots. The viewer can enjoy the flight from the jump-seat's perspective by means six synchronized cameras in high definition. The program is broadcast in many countries, and sold on DVD and Blu-ray.[14][15][16]
Teaching
Since 2005 he is actively engaged as director of studies for the degree course business administrator marketing BAW at the Bayerische Akademie
für Werbung und Marketing (Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing).[17]
Since 2011 he has been lecturing at the BAF (Bavarian Television Academy).[18]
Awards
In 1985 Thomas Aigner was awarded the most popular radio presenter in Austria by readers of the teenage magazine "MusicMan".
In the year 2000, Thomas Aigner was included in the 100 most important Germans on the Internet list by the industry newswire service KressReport.
In the year 2000 he was awarded for the idea of the netRadio show on Bayern3 with the OnlineStar.
For the Northpole episode of PilotsEYE.tv, Aigner received a silver intermedia-globe at the World Media Festival in Hamburg in 2009.[19]
Publications and further readings
In 2001 he served as co-author for the book Streaming Media – Internet bewegter, bunter, lauter.[20]
- Thomas Prantner, TOP 1000. Menschen, Kultur, Shopping und Freizeit, Überreuter, 1987; ISBN 978-3-8000-9025-9
- Eva Fritsch: Wo Prominente speisen", Weilburg Verlag, 1986; ISBN 978-3-9001-0040-7
- Jürgen Mayer & Thomas Aigner: Streaming Media - new technology. Internet bewegter, bunter, lauter, Markt+Technik, 2001: ISBN 978-3-8272-6143-4
- Thomas Aigner: Netmyths-with myths and legends surrounding computers and the Internet.,[21] Ullstein, 2005; ISBN 978-3-54841-238-2
References
- ↑ Online directory, initiated by TV-Channel (german)
- ↑ Live report of contestant (german)
- ↑ Factual database of all tv-shows in germany (german)
- ↑ Hopp oder Top Computer Game C64 @ retrostore
- ↑ "Internet, crazy new world"(german)
- ↑ Article on netRadio and explanation of URL-Push (german)
- ↑ Telepolis/Heise about netNewsletter/Aigner (german)
- ↑ I Fed. Supreme Court 2004, First Spam decision
- ↑ Upper Regional Court, Cologne, May 2010, AZ 6U 48/09 (german)
- ↑ Screenhouse explained (english)
- ↑ Online-Umsetzung von Big Brother | Die Welt (german)
- ↑ Bavarian regulatory authority for commercial broadcasting, BLM (de,en)
- ↑ PilotsEYE.tv
- ↑ Review | A380 KSFO PilotsEYE.tv
- ↑ Premiere on US-TV cable stations | Right this minute
- ↑ Review @ the premiere source for flight simulation
- ↑ Marketingstudium an der BAW
- ↑ Dozentenverzeichnis BAF
- ↑ Preisträger World Media Festival 2009
- ↑ Quotation at University of Weimar (de)
- ↑ directory of antiquarian books (de)
External links
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- Thomas Aigner on the Internet Movie Database
- Thomas Aigner profile on Linked in (English)
- Thomas Aigner profile o Kress.de (German)