Lynne Polak, a greatly valued EBU employee and consultant working for Eurovision TV, regrettably passed away on 22 February.
Since she began working for the EBU in 1999 her contributions have been significant. She has worked on high quality projects with strong public service values. Lynne was very much appreciated by many colleagues and fellow broadcasters especially because of her ability to listen, her contagious enthusiasm and wonderful warm smile. She had the ability to gather very different people from various places and backgrounds around common projects. She knew how to keep them together until the goal was reached. Through the process often many of them became her friends.
The two latest projects Lynne worked on were:
The Diversity Toolkit, which has been extremely successful and has been translated into more than 10 languages, has been reprinted and used extensively by broadcasters and NGOs that are still building workshops and training sessions around this excellent tool.
The Solidarity Package - an unprecedented project in its scale - in which 13 broadcasters with budgetary constraints were offered a package of over 700 high quality programme hours from more than 10 EBU Members. Lynne managed to negotiate a number of complex deals and the fruits of her work are now on TV screens in numerous countries.
Lynne also managed the Geneva-Europe Prizes, awarded every year since 1987 to the best TV fiction written by a newcomer. Furthermore, she worked with the Editorial Council that was set up to assist RTK (Radio Television Kosovo) in achieving its role as a Public Service Broadcaster until it became independent in 2001. These are just some of the projects she made a difference on.
Lynne Polak’s inspiring personality has a left a long-lasting impact on the EBU and the people she has worked with.
Her colleagues and friends will miss her.
Messages to Lynne’s family can be sent to her husband, Ramon Garcia using this email address: vasova@ebu.ch
(Source : European Broadcasting Union)
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