{"id":4800,"date":"2019-07-29T07:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2019-07-29T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:38:37","slug":"gerhard-weis-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/gerhard-weis-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerhard Weis is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">The former ORF general manager Gerhard Weis died on Friday at the age of 80 years after a short, serious illness in the circle of his family. With Gerhard Weis Austria lost a great, thoughtful thinker and forward-looking media manager, who has significantly shaped the country\u2019s radio and television. The ORF itself and numerous well-known personalities are deeply affected about his demise.<\/p>\n<p>Without Gerhard Weis, ORF would not be one of the most successful public broadcasters in Europe today, said ORF Director-General Alexander Wrabetz, in appreciation of his merits. Gerhard Weis stood for journalism with attitude and was one of the country\u2019s most innovative media makers.<\/p>\n<p>With Gerhard Weis, a significant personality of the Austrian media space has left us. Weis was an upright person, a good journalist and an innovative ORF general manager, said with great sadness the Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen.<\/p>\n<p>With Gerhard Weis also the AACC lost a wise consultant, speaker and a friend, as well as an always combative supporter. Gerhard Weis was also one of the founders of the AACC and the vice president of the Center.<\/p>\n<p>We are expressing our deepest and heartfelt condolences to his family and relatives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former ORF general manager Gerhard Weis died on Friday at the age of 80 years after a short, serious illness in the circle of his family. With Gerhard Weis Austria lost a great, thoughtful thinker and forward-looking media manager, who has significantly shaped the country\u2019s radio and television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}