Massimo Lorenzi retires after 37 years on screen and at the helm of RTS – rts.ch

He is an emblematic figure of French-speaking screens who announces his retirement scheduled for the first half of 2026. After 37 years of a rich career at RTS including the presentation of various TV news shows and the production of several magazines, Massimo Lorenzi will leave his position at the head of the Sports editorial team following the next Winter Olympic Games. He will have been at work for more than half of the years of existence of French-speaking television, which has just celebrated its 70th anniversary.

“I am incredibly lucky to have been able to follow such an exciting and diverse journey. I will leave totally convinced of the need to preserve a quality and varied public service in Switzerland. The RTS and the SSR constitute an essential glue to this country “, emphasizes Massimo Lorenzi.

The announcement of this departure, made this Tuesday to journalists from the Sports editorial team, will be followed in the spring by the launch of the recruitment process for the person who will succeed him and whose name should be known in the summer of 2025. The editor in outgoing head will ensure a transition period with the journalist who will take over at RTS after the extinction of the Olympic flame in Milano Cortina.

Biography

Born in 1961 in Italy, Massimo Lorenzi began his career in 1986 at the newspaper Switzerlandafter studying political science at the University of Geneva. In June 1989, he joined Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) and quickly distinguished himself by his talent on the air. He successively collaborates with TJ Midi, TJ Nightthen to Present timebefore becoming presenter of the main TSR news, the TJ Evening (current 7:30 p.m.), which he played from 1993 to 1998 and which propelled his notoriety into all French-speaking homes.

After ten years in information, Massimo Lorenzi moved to the sociocultural magazine in 1999 Viva. In 2001, he launched the society magazine In other wordsthen the cultural magazine Head elsewhere and will also collaborate in Pass me the binoculars. He will then assume responsibility for training the interns, before returning to the air as co-producer and co-presenter of the show. Infrared. In 2008, he took on the role of coordinator of Euro 2008 for the TSR and was subsequently named editor-in-chief of Sports, a position he has held with passion since the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. When the TSR and the RSR unite to become RTS, he is responsible for the merger of the television, radio and digital sports editorial teams, and is still in charge of it currently.

The RTS already expresses its gratitude to Massimo Lorenzi, whose television skills and public service vision have served the cause of information and sports journalism on our channel for more than thirty years, earning him recognition in Switzerland and abroad.