Stephanie Weiss takes over as head of the SR DRS media department

At the end of June 2006, Heinrich Anker will hand over the management of the SR DRS media department to his successor Stephanie Weiss. The 40-year-old from Basel took up her post in the Radio Directorate in Basel at the beginning of June. Stephanie Weiss joined the SRG Research Service in 2001 as a Senior Assistant, where she was responsible for radio research projects. In 2004, she took over as Head of Radio Research. Her dissertation on "Children and radio. Use, motives and interests of 7-14 year olds" was recently published as a book by Berner Haupt Verlag. Heinrich Anker has taken up a 50% position at the Radio Directorate in the area of corporate development. There he will deal with the long-term perspectives of technology and programming, with questions of media policy and program development.