| Citation | Peter Rainger graduated at London University in Electrical Engineering, and joined the Designs Department of the BBC in 1951 where he did pioneer work on Television Standards Conversion by all electronic means. He has been Head of Designs and Research Departments and among other things has been involved in application of digital techniques for transmission and studio applications. He proposed the Teletext data broadcasting system and has many patents of general application.
He has also been very active in professional and international committees of the IEE and the EBU and is Chairman of the EBU Working Party V (New Technology).
In 1964 he received the Royal Television Society's Geoffrey Parr Award for work on standards conversion and in 1973 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society. In 1967 the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers presented him with an Emmy Award and in 1972 he was awarded the David Sarnoff Gold Medal of that Society.
He was appointed Assistant and the Deputy Director of Engineering in the BBC in 1978. |