NPO Nieuws was a 24-hour

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operated by the NOS, the public broadcaster which supplies news and sports to all national public television and radio networks. NOS also provides programming for the political channel,

NPO Politiek en Nieuws NPO Politiek en Nieuws is a public television channel operated by the public broadcaster NOS, which supplies news and sports to all national public television and radio networks. Programmes come live from The Hague when the parliament is in sess ...

. The channel started broadcasting on NOS's website on 1 December 2004. NPO Nieuws broadcasts all editions of the

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news bulletin, and repeats the last news broadcast. NPO Nieuws also showed four extra programmes named NOS Journaal Chat, NOS Journaal Plus (extra information), NOS Journaal Reportages and NOS Journaal Weekoverzicht. A half-hourly version (15 minutes plus another 15 minute repeat) of the youth-oriented news programme NOS Jeugdjournaal also aired every day on NPO Nieuws. In addition to these programmes, weather bulletins and updates from NOS Teletekst page 101 were also shown. Until 16 September 2007

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news was also shown on NPO Nieuws; this was later replaced by a scrolling

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showing news headlines. At any point, the programming could have been interrupted for

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. The main studio is in

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. On 10 March 2014, Journaal 24 changed its name into NPO Nieuws. Journaal 24 logo

NPO Nieuws closed on 15 December 2021. Some of its programming moved to NPO Politiek which was renamed by NPO Politiek en Nieuws.

References

External links

Official Website ''NPO Nieuws''
{{Television in the Netherlands Defunct television channels in the Netherlands 24-hour television news channels Television channels and stations established in 2004 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021