WGVU engineer receives Silver Circle Award

Robert Lumbert, director of engineering at WGVU, has been inducted into the Silver Circle by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored on March 1 in Birmingham for his 25-plus years of service.  

Lumbert joins WGVU colleagues Chuck Furman, Carrie Corbin, Ken Kolbe and Michael Walenta, who have all been inducted over the last four years.

Lumbert headed the 1999 Michigan Engineering Study for Digital Conversion of the state's public broadcasting stations, including statewide interconnect facilities planning. Currently, he is heading WGVU's digital conversion process. 

He has also been working to converting WGVU's radio stations to digital signals; WGVU's 1480 AM station is now broadcasting In Band On Channel (IBOC). He also secured grant money in order to move WGVU-FM and WGVS-FM to an IBOC broadcast.

In 2002, Lumbert was awarded the MAB Pioneer Award for his considerable contributions to the broadcast engineering field and his efforts to correlate all of the stations in Michigan.