NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz is a
digital radio
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Types
In digital broadcasting syst ...
station from
Netherlands Public Broadcasting (NPO).
It launched as NPO Radio 6 on 4 September 2006, when it took over from the
Concertzender (now operating independently), its musical format is mainly
soul and
jazz, together with such related genres as
funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...
,
rhythm and blues, and
world music. At night it also broadcasts a number of cultural and informative programmes produced by the following broadcasting associations:
KRO-NCRV
KRO-NCRV is a Dutch public broadcasting company based in Hilversum established on January 1, 2014 from a merger of the broadcasters Catholic Radio Broadcasting (KRO) and the Dutch Christian Radio Association (NCRV), transmitting on NPO 1, NPO 2 ...
,
MAX
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* Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog
* Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE)
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,
NTR and
VPRO. NPO Soul & Jazz is distributed via
DAB
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* ''Dictionary of American Biography'', published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies
* ''Dictionary of Australian Biography'', published since 1949
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, cable, and also online.
On 1 January 2016 NPO closed down NPO Radio 6, replacing it with NPO Soul & Jazz. NPO Radio 2 Soul & Jazz broadcast non stop music till 19 hrs. Between 19 and 23 hrs there are presented programmes on NPO Soul & Jazz.
Logos
Image:Radio 6 (NL) logo.png, Radio 6 logo used until 2012.
Image:NPO Radio 6 logo 2014.svg, Radio 6 logo used from 2014 to 2016.
See also
*
List of radio stations in the Netherlands
External links
NPO Soul & Jazz website
Radio stations in the Netherlands
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