NPO Zapp is a Dutch children's block from the NPO on

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 ...

that launched as Z@pp on 4 September 2005. Since September 2005,

NPO Zappelin NPO Zappelin is a Dutch television program block for younger children that launched as Z@ppelin in September 2000. The brand was created as a counterbalance to violent programming on its commercial competitors. Before Z@ppelin, the programmes w ...

has been the name of a block for young children. The @ in the name of the channel was removed on 10 September 2012. On 12 March 2013, the NPO announced that Zapp and Zappelin would be renamed as NPO Zapp and NPO Zappelin. The reason for this change is to make the channels and its programmes more recognizable. The rebranding completed on 19 August 2014. Together with NPO Zappelin it forms a channel called

NPO Zappelin Extra NPO Zappelin Extra was a digital theme TV channel jointly operated by AVROTROS, EO, KRO-NCRV, NTR and VPRO. The TV channel launched as Zappelin 24 on 30 May 2009. The channel broadcast daily from 3:30am to 8:30pm, timesharing with Familie 24 o ...

, available online and part of bonus packages (cable, satellite and IPTV). Well-known programmes of NPO Zapp are ''Willem Wever'' (

KRO-NCRV KRO-NCRV is a Dutch public broadcasting company based in Hilversum established on 1 January 2014 from a merger of the broadcasters Catholic Radio Broadcasting (KRO) and the Dutch Christian Radio Association (NCRV), transmitting on NPO 1, NPO ...

), ''

Het Klokhuis ''Het Klokhuis'' ( Dutch for "The Applecore") is a daily documentary show for primary school children and young teenagers produced by ntr of the Netherlands. It first aired on 3 January 1988. It is broadcast every weekday at 18:25 on NPO 3 ...

'' ( NTR), ''

Jeugdjournaal (; "Youth News Programme") is a Dutch television Children's news program, news programme produced by the Dutch public service broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, NOS for children. The programme has been on air since 1981. The main evening ...

'' ( NOS) and ''Villa Achterwerk'' (

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 broadca ...

). NPO Zapp had a mascot called ''The Zappers''.

Current programmes

* ''Campus 12'' * '' Checkpoint'' * ''De Dokter Corrie Show'' * ''

'' * ''

'' * '' SpangaS: De Campus'' * ''Taarten van Abel'' * ''Willem Wever'' * ''Zaai'' * ''Zapplive'' * ''Zappsport''

Foreign series

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(Australia) * Super Abby (Spain) * DreaMars (Israel)

References

External links

* {{Television in the Netherlands Television channels in the Netherlands Netherlands Public Broadcasting Television channels and stations established in 2005