Overview
- The Schlager‑Spaß episode that aired on Saturday, June 13 was recorded on March 30 and includes an emotional exchange in which host Andy Borg comforted guest Stefan Mross after news that Mross’s ARD Sunday show was ending.
- ARD has decided to discontinue Immer wieder sonntags after 31 years and more than 370 episodes, a move outlets say is driven by financial pressures on public broadcasting.
- During the June 13 broadcast a viewer named Inge gave Borg a modern Gigaset telephone as a gift, but Borg made clear he values the show’s familiar props such as his rotary‑dial phone and resists wide‑ranging modernization.
- The program keeps a communal format introduced during the pandemic with artists seated together, and the episode featured guests including Stefan Mross, Monika Martin, Randolph Rose, Liane, Karène Neuville, Ladyva, Die Bonny Tones, Die Fetzig’n and Degerschlacher Blasmusik.
- The episode highlights a wider tension for regional ARD partners between trimming costs and serving an older audience that prizes ritual and continuity, a dynamic that could shape future decisions about schlager programming and on‑air presentation.