 He became known to a wider audience as a host and producer for the soccer show 'ran – Sat.1 Bundesliga' on the private Sat.1 channel when the network acquired the broadcasting rights to the Bundesliga, the highest national soccer league in Germany.He hosted the show from August 1992 until end of 1997 in rotation with several other young broadcasters who went on to become TV personalities in Germany, including Reinhold Beckmann (who now hosts his own weekly talk show), Oliver Welke and Monica Lierhaus.For this show he received a number of awards, including a prize as the most well-liked sportscaster in 1996 and 1997 by the German sports magazine Sport Bild.