Bütow to Head Up ProSiebenSat.1’s German Productions

MUNICH, November 18: Michael Bütow, the senior VP of international production for ProSiebenSat.1, has been tapped to lead the group’s efforts in producing German productions and co-productions outside of Germany.

Bütow will be responsible for both fiction and non-fiction programming for the group’s German channels. He will report to Jan Frouman, the executive VP of group content acquisitions and production for ProSiebenSat.1. Bütow previously worked at ProSieben from 1996 to 1998, heading the department for in-house productions of German fiction. He then went to the RTL Group, where his positions included production head at RTL Televizja in Croatia and RenTV in Moscow.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski