Preceding the European elections the first German public TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighboring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The morning program Morgenmagazin broadcasts live from the Amstel river in the centre of Amsterdam. A… Read More

Is the new generation in danger of being lost in Rotterdam. Has the city become a ticking time bomb? The city is largely dependent on its port and the collapse of world trade in the wake of the economic crisis is taking a heavy toll… Read More

This year the city Apeldoorn is chosen by Queen Beatrix to visit during the celebration of the Dutch traditional Queens Day. The Queen and her family arrive at the Oranje park and walk around to see all the culture, hobbies, sports, and crafts presented by… Read More

Morgenmagazin, the early morning program from the first German public TV channel ARD, reports live from Apeldoorn, the city that Queen Beatrix and her family will visit later in the day to celebrate the traditional Dutch Queens Day. Early in the morning yhe gate of… Read More

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden visit the Netherlands for a three day state visit. At the start of their visit they are greeted by Queen Beatrix and get a welcoming ceremony in the Hague. During the three days, the Swedish King… Read More

After the Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands, Europe correspondent Christoph Nufer from the Swiss public TV channel Schweizer Fernsehen needs actual information, an SNG van and vox pops for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau…. Read More

After a Turkish airplane crashed near the airport Schiphol, correspondent Michael Strempel from the German public TV channel ARD needs a cameraman for news coverage for the news program Tagesschau and the background to the news program Tagesthemen. For these reportages Featurez did research, booked… Read More

After eleven years the Dutch finally have a few days of real cold winter weather. Immediately the Dutch put on their skates for a skating ride on the rare natural ice. Within in a few days the skating fever is spreading like wildfire, resulting in… Read More

It turns out that many of the window brothels, coffee shops, tourist- and fast food shops in the Amsterdam red light district will have to close to fight crime in the prostitution branch lessen the backpackers and to attract more wealthy tourists. Final decisions are… Read More

In Japan students of a well-known university are arrested because they were growing cannabis plants. While in the Netherlands a cannabis summit is organised and suddenly many coffee shops are threatened with closure, correspondent Go Kamosiha from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK travels to Amsterdam… Read More

After Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, two Dutch cities along the border with Belgium, indicated to close all coffee shops within two years to fight drugs tourism, a special cannabis summit is organised. The mayors of cities with coffee shops meet to discuss the problems… Read More

The Dutch Taskforce Management Floods organises the ‘Water Test’, a national flood simulation exercise. The participants of the ‘Water Test’ are administrators, national-, regional- and local emergency services and the water board districts On the basis of the worst imaginable floods the involved departments and… Read More