Published on October 31, 2024 at 11:13. / Modified on October 31, 2024 at 3:58 p.m.
The age is noble, the birthday discreet. These days, the RTS is celebrating its 70th anniversary and, between budget cuts and the future of the license fee, this senior is having a turbulent time. No boasting then, but a special broadcast on November 2. Led by Jonas Schneiter, this journey through time will feature extracts from archives and testimonies from emblematic personalities. In the crew? Martina Chyba, obviously. Of the 70 years of the house, the journalist has lived through thirty-five: exactly half of the great French-speaking television history. Let us enjoy scrolling with her in accelerated fashion, seated at a table in her Geneva apartment.
“It’s annoying!”, she says in the preamble, feigning dizziness behind her black-rimmed glasses – one of her trademarks. Passed by ABE, Focus or Household scenes, Martina Chyba, 59, is one of those faces you identify at a glance. This familiar face, with the biting tone and the energy of the devil, who has become a fixture in people’s living rooms – it’s she who says it while giggling in her coffee. “Luckily, vintage furniture is in fashion! Young people tell me: “I grew up with you.” It’s funny. I’m the little darling!”
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