Success for SRG SSR at the Prix Europa
This year's Prix Europa festival in Berlin came to a close on Saturday with the awards ceremony. In three of the 16 competition categories, the jury awarded the prize to SRG entries.
In the "TV Iris - best multicultural TV program" category, Fernand Melgar's "Vol Spécial" - the RTS co-production about the deportees in the Frambois prison in Geneva, which has already won several awards - received the prize. In the "Radio Radio Play" category, the jury awarded the prize to the DRS program "Wie ich Fats Domino aus dem Hurrikan Katrina rettete" by David Zane Mairowitz. In the "Online" category, the "diy.fm - Radio à la carte" project by SRG subsidiary tpc ag won out against 21 competing products from all over Europe. diy.fm allows users to put together their own personalized radio channel from the content of all SRG radio channels. SRG writes this in a press release on Presseportal.ch. A total of around 650 radio, TV and online projects were submitted by public service media companies from over 40 European countries.
Roger de Weck new President
The festival's steering committee yesterday elected Roger de Weck, Director General of SRG, as the new President of the Prix Europa. Prix Europa is Europe's largest festival for TV, radio and online productions. It has existed since 1987 and aims to promote the distribution of high-quality European broadcasting productions.
