Peter Senger, Director of Marketing, Distribution and Engineering at Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and Chairman of the Digital Radio Mondiale consortium, has been awarded the EBU International Broadcasting Committee’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
At a ceremony during the IBC convention in Amsterdam on 15 September, Lodewijk Bouwens, Chair of the EBU Committee and Director of Radio Netherlands, presented the award on behalf of the EBU. Citing Senger’s work on DRM as one of the prime reasons for the award, Bouwens said that the DRM system will have a lasting and positive impact on international broadcasters worldwide.