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Peter Urban (born 14 April 1948 in Bramsche, Lower Saxony) is a German musician and radio host. Urban has been the German commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest since

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, following

Jan Hofer Jan Hofer (born 31 January 195?) is a German broadcast newsreader and television presenter. He was a well-known and popular reader of the news programme '' Tagesschau'' on Das Erste. Hofer was the chief reader on ''Tagesschau'' from 2004 until ...

. Due to illness in 2009, he was unable to commentate on the 2009 Contest, with

Tim Frühling Tim Frühling (born 29 July 1975 in Wolfenbüttel) is a German disc jockey and Radio personality for Hessischer Rundfunk. Between 1998 and 2003 hr XXL before working for You FM and between the years of 2000 and 2003 and from 2005 and 2008 Frü ...

filling in, but he returned to commentate in

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. Urban has also commentated on the

Eurovision Dance Contest The Eurovision Dance Contest was an international ballroom dancing competition that was held for the first time in the United Kingdom on Saturday 1 September 2007. The contest was similar in format to the long-running Eurovision Song Contest and ...

since

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. Currently he hosts the radio programmes "NDR-Info-Nachtclub" and "NDR-2-Soundcheck Neue Musik" for the German regional broadcaster

Norddeutscher Rundfunk Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; ''Northern German Broadcasting'') is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, M ...

(NDR), and has been described as the ''"voice of the station"''.

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