バイエルン放送
From 1971 on, Gottschalk worked as a freelancer for the youth program of the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting); in 1973, he became anchor for a news program. In 1976, after a brief detour to the newspaper "Münchner Merkur", he became a regular contributor at the Bayerischer Rundfunk, and subsequently gained popularity as the host of the show "Pop nach acht". He was awarded the "Kurt-Magnus-Preis" for his "outstanding talents" as a radio host in 1978.