Romanian Radio gets a new Director-General
Robert Christian Schwartz has been appointed president and director-general of Radio Romania, his country’s public broadcaster. Romania parliament cleared the way in a plenary session on November 26, after a positive vote by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate’s respective cultural committees on Tuesday. Radio Romania’s board of directors had nominated Schwartz a week earlier. His responsibilities will include Radio Romania International, Romania’s international radio service.
Schwartz is quoted as telling a parliament hearing that programs for a younger audience were needed, and that digital transformation was important in that context.
Schwartz was born in Sibiu (German: Hermannstadt) in 1956. He worked as a teacher after studying German language and literature in Bucharest, after some initial experience at Romanian radio and television during his studies. He joined Deutsche Welle in 1992, and worked as the station’s Romanian department manager from 2000 until 2020.
Taking note of their colleague’s promotion back in Bucharest, Deutsche Welle’s current Romanian department portrays Schwartz as a pioneer who "conducted more or less risky reforms, some of which being held up, but most of them being successful"
Robert Schwartz, care, până în 2020, a coordonat redacția română, și-a asumat pionieratul în mai toată această tranziție, cu reforme mai mult sau mai puțin riscante, unele împotmolite dar cu cele mai multe reușite, chiar dacă uneori obstacolele cele mai dificile veneau din rezistența sau opoziția internă la schimbare."
DW’s Romanian service is still available online, but left shortwave with the end of 2006. It was followed by a number of other languages, including German, in 2011, and by DW’s Chinese service with the end of 2012. Also in 2012, Deutsche Welle stopped FM transmissions in Romanian, on a Bucharest frequency.
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