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NPO 3
NPO 3 (known as Nederland 3 until 2014) is the third and youngest of the terrestrial television channels operated by the Dutch public-broadcasting organization NPO in the Netherlands. It carries programmes provided by member-based non-profit broadcasting associations and is oriented towards children, youth, and innovative television. The channel is also available on cable companies in its overseas dependencies in the Caribbean, either live or time-shifted. History Initially, the third Dutch public television channel would be a joint venture with the Flemish public broadcaster VRT (then called BRTN), which would specialize in cooperative Netherlands/Flanders programming. With the pretended cooperation, BRT (now VRT) would either continue or terminate its second channel by operating it more lucratively. This plan failed but later resulted in a new television channel targeting Dutch and Flemish people living abroad. Two Dutch broadcasters, NPO and RNW, launched BVN as Zomer T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1080i
In high-definition television (HDTV) and video display technology, 1080i is a video display format with 1080 lines of vertical resolution and Interlaced video, interlaced scanning method. This format was once a standard in HDTV. It was particularly used for broadcast television because it can deliver high-resolution images without needing excessive bandwidth. This format is used in the SMPTE 292M standard. Definition The number "1080" in 1080i refers to the number of horizontal lines that make up the vertical resolution of the display. Each of these lines contributes to the overall detail and clarity of the image. The letter "i" stands for Interlaced video, interlaced. This is a technique where the image is not displayed all at once. Instead, the frame is split into two fields. One field contains the odd-numbered lines, and the other field contains the even-numbered lines. These fields are displayed in rapid succession, giving the appearance of a full image to the human eye. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Public Broadcasting System
The Dutch public broadcasting system () is a group of organizations that are responsible for public service television and radio broadcasting in the Netherlands. It is composed of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) foundation, which acts as its governing body, and a number of public broadcasters. The Dutch Media Act 2008 regulates how air time is divided and puts the administration of the public broadcasting system in the hands of the NPO Board of Directors. In addition to the national broadcasters, there are also regional and local broadcasters in the Netherlands. Unlike most other countries' public broadcasting organizations – which are either national corporations (such as the BBC and France Télévisions / Radio France), federations of regional public-law bodies (for example, ARD, SRG SSR) or governmental and member-based institutions with their own channels and facilities (such as PBS) – those in the Netherlands are member-based broadcasting associations that share ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TROS
TROS, originally an acronym for Televisie Radio Omroep Stichting ("Television Radio Broadcasting Foundation"), was a Dutch television and radio organisation part of the Dutch public broadcasting system. This broadcasting association was particularly well known for its entertainment programmes, quizzes and focus on Dutch folk music in programmes like and the digital channel TROS Sterren TV. In 2014 TROS merged with fellow broadcaster AVRO to form AVROTROS. History A group of entrepreneurs who disliked the type and amount of TV shown by the single public broadcasting channel in the Netherlands acquired a North Sea off-shore drilling platform — the REM Island — and mounted a TV transmitter in the summer of 1964 ( TV Noordzee) and started to broadcast American TV shows like '' Mr. Ed''. This new unofficial TV proved quite popular but was shut down by a government raid, as the government claimed the island's transmitter trespassed frequency spectrum regulations. Due to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katholieke Radio Omroep
KRO, or (Catholic Radio Broadcasting), was a Dutch public broadcasting organization founded on 23 April 1925. Broadly Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ... in its spiritual outlook, KRO broadcast the bulk of its television output on the NPO 1 channel. KRO was also responsible for managing broadcasts made by the Catholic Church in the Netherlands in the airtime allocated to . KRO published the magazines ''Studio KRO Magazine'' and ''Mikro gids''. On 1 January 2014, it merged with (NCRV) to form KRO-NCRV. ' (English: "Nameless Orchestra") was the KRO's official orchestra during the pillarization of Dutch society. Their 1952 song "" is a Dutch evergreen, which sold 25,000 copies. Programmes Television On television, KRO's "behind-the-news" show is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evangelische Omroep
Evangelische Omroep or EO ('Evangelical Broadcasting') is an Evangelical broadcast television network in Netherlands. It is one of the twelve member-based broadcasting associations contributing to the Dutch public broadcasting system. History EO was founded in 1967 by members of Evangelical churches wanting to put more emphasis on evangelism. The network also organizes conferences for young people and families. Television programs * ('The Coffin') * ('The Family Dinner') Controversies Documentaries are often edited to reflect EO's creationist convictions. While still being presented as a BBC documentary, '' The Life of Mammals'' series was edited to remove material incompatible with young earth creationism, and profanity is regularly edited out of bought-in drama series. Creationism The subject of creationism has sparked a number of EO-related controversies. In early 2009, a controversy arose over statements by a leading presenter and former director, Andries Kneve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BNN (Dutch Broadcaster)
BNN () or Bart's Neverending Network (formerly Bart's News Network, as a pun on CNN) was a Dutch public broadcasting Voluntary association, association supported by Netherlands Public Broadcasting. BNN was founded in 1997 by Bart de Graaff, Gerard Timmer and Frank Timmer and targeted teenagers and Young adult (psychology), young adults. It produced entertainment and information television programming, radio programming, and feature films. Some of BNN's programming dealt with controversial subject matter, including most famously, a De Grote Donorshow, hoax reality special made to help raise awareness of the shortage of organ donors in the Netherlands. History BNN became a public broadcasting association as a part of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system on 15 August 1997, replacing former member Veronica TV (HMG), Veronica. While Dutch media in general is known to be liberal in coverage of Human sexuality, sexuality and drugs, even BNN's programming has been considered contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep
Avro (an initialism of the founder's name) was a British aircraft manufacturer. Its designs include the Avro 504, used as a trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War. Avro was founded in 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe at the Brownsfield Mill on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester. The company remained based primarily in Lancashire throughout its 53 years of existence, with key development and manufacturing sites in Alexandra Park Aerodrome (Manchester), Alexandra Park, Chadderton, Trafford Park, and Woodford, Greater Manchester. The company was merged into Hawker Siddeley Aviation in 1963, although the Avro name has been used for some aircraft since then. History Early history One of the world's first aircraft builders, A.V. Roe and Company was established on 1 January 1910 at Brownsfield Mill, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, by Alliott Verdon Roe and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omroep NTR
NTR is a Dutch public-service broadcaster, supplying television and radio programming of an informational, educational, and cultural nature to the national public broadcasting system, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO). NTR was created in 2010, following the merger of the Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS) and two educational broadcasters, Televisie Academie (Teleac) and the Radio Volksuniversiteit (RVU). For details of these predecessor organizations, see further below. Public broadcasting organizations in the Netherlands (that is to say, in the Dutch context, listener and viewer associations) do not have their own stations but are allotted airtime on the three public television and eight public radio networks broadly in relation to the size of their respective memberships. NTR, however, as an independently established statutory body, is not a membership-based organization. History RVU (1931–2010) RVU, the Radio Volksuniversiteit (People's University Radio), was the long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VARA (broadcaster)
The Omroepvereniging VARA (), the VARA Broadcasting Association, was a Dutch public broadcasting association primarily operating in the fields of television, radio, publishing and interactive media. It was a member of Netherlands Public Broadcasting. History The association was founded in 1925 as the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio AmateursThe word ''vereeniging'' is an antiquated spelling; today this word is spelled ''vereniging''. (Association of Worker Radio Amateurs). The name was changed to ''Omroepvereniging VARA'' in 1957 and is no longer an acronym. VARA originally focused on labour and socialism. In the era of Dutch pillarization, the association had close links to the Social Democratic Workers Party and its successor, the Labour Party. For many years VARA's chairmen, such as Marcel van Dam and André Kloos, were prominent members of the party. Although the connection between the two organizations loosened, affinities remain, such as a large overlap between their r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VPRO
The VPRO (stylized vpro; originally an acronym for ''Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep'', lit. 'Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcaster', nowadays known as ''Omroepvereniging VPRO'') is a Netherlands, Dutch Public broadcasting, public broadcaster that is a member of the Dutch public broadcasting system. The VPRO presents itself as a progressive broadcaster and mainly produces profound and liberal programs. The VPRO was founded on May 29, 1926 by the Liberal Christianity, liberal Protestant pillar. The liberal Protestants wanted a radio broadcaster that would express the liberal Protestant sound. With this, the VPRO became one of the many broadcasters that the Netherlands had. The VPRO made a cultural shift in the late 1960s and was transformed into a progressive broadcaster. With this statement, they departed from the previous, more Protestant image. Since then, the VPRO has made many artistic and liberal programs. In the 1980s, the number of members of the VPRO grew and sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Radio Netherlands (RNW; ) was a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands from 1947 to 2012. Its services in Dutch ended on 11 May 2012. English and Indonesian language services ceased on 29 June 2012 due to steep budget cuts imposed by the Dutch government and a concomitant change in focus. The last programme broadcast on shortwave was a daily half-hour show in Spanish for Cuba named ''El Toque'' (''The Touch'') on 1 August 2014. Radio Netherlands Worldwide was replaced by RNW Media, a Dutch non profit for free speech and social change around the world. History Early days (Philips Radio) Following a series of experiments on various wavelengths in 1925, reports of good reception from a low-power shortwave transmitter were received from Jakarta on 11 March 1927. Dutch Queen Wilhelmina made what is believed to be the world's first royal broadcast on 1 June 1927, addressi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlaamse Radio- En Televisieomroep
The Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie ("Flemish Radio and Television broadcasting organisation"), shortened to VRT (), is one of the national public broadcasting, public service broadcasters for the Flemish Community of Belgium. Its counterpart in the French Community of Belgium, French Community is the French-language RTBF (), and in the German-speaking Community of Belgium, German-speaking Community it is Belgischer Rundfunk, BRF (). The VRT operates six television channels (, , , , and ) together with a number of radio channels, including , , , , and . History The VRT is the successor to a succession of organisations. Belgium's National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (INR-NIR) was founded in 1930 and existed until 1960. It was subsequently split along lingustic lines with Dutch language programming becoming the (BRT) in 1960 and the (BRTN) from 1991 to 1998. The NIR/INR and BRT (; RTB) had each been single state-owned entities with separate Dutch language, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
