Dutch media services
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany’s regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in 1950 in West Germany to represent the common interests of the new, decentralised, post-war broadcasting services – in particular the introduction of a joint television network.
ARD maintains and operates a national television network, called Das Erste (“The First”) to differentiate it from ZDF, a.k.a. “das Zweite” (“The Second”), which started in 1963, as a separate public TV-broadcaster. The ARD network began broadcasting on 31 October 1954 under the name of Deutsches Fernsehen (“German Television”), becoming Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen (“First German Television”) with a corporate redesign in 1984; it adopted its current short name (Das Erste) in 1994. ARD’s programmes are aired over its own terrestrial broadcast network, as well as via cable, satellite and IPTV.
After more than six years the Dutch authorities start a special parlementerian inquiry to find the truth behind the EL AL plane crash in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer. Some of the victims just arrive back from Los angeles, where they consulted medical specialist Garth Nicolson to… Read More
The official publicaiotn of the Dictionary of the Dutch language (WNT). Fourty enormous books with around 400.000 words. The Dutch language is discribed from the year 1500 till 1921. In the dictionary articles 1,6 million quotes are used. The WTN has 45.805 pages and is… Read More
The Olympus College in Rotterdam is sending away the average of three of it’s pupils per week. They decided to make school-contracts with the pupils. The school with 1500 childern from around 30 different nationalities decided to use this extreme method, after they came out… Read More
Years after the ELAL plane crashing into a high rise block in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer more and more questions come up. Soon there will be decided on a parliamentary inquiry into the disaster. The way the disaster was handled by the dutch, how and why… Read More
Reportage about the opening of the Gay Games: the gay parade. A bombastic parade of boats full of gay and lesbians dancing on different kinds of music. Activities: screening item idea, research, set-up & set-up filming.
A Visit with the neighbourhood with Dutch Surinam mayor Hannah Belliot, the first migrant mayor of the Netherlands, ends with a steelpan concert on a parking lot. A patrol through the neighbourhood with the police and checking out the nightlife of the Bijlmermeer with social… Read More
Half June the Dutch ministry of traffic organised a trade-fare where all kinds of different new high-way-transportation-techniques will be shown on a not yet opened part of a new high way near Leiden . 100 volunteers will help showing en testing the different systems. One… Read More
In some Dutch cities an experiment called Justice in the neighbourhood’ (JIB) started. The idea of JIB. is to bring the activities of the Justice department closer to the people. This means that offenders and victims get a more direct and fast treatment around the… Read More
Rotterdam is recruiting extra policeman to walk around in the streets as look-a-like policeman. It is cheaper and faster to recrute fake-policeman and since it is very difficult to see the difference between the real one and the look-a-like, it is reassuring for the citizen…. Read More
In the middle of Tilburg an insurance company opened europe ‘s biggest ‘flex-office’. None of the 1500 employees has it’s own room, desk or archive. The interior of the building looks more like a futuristic museum than like an head-office of an insurance company. The… Read More
Form the results of a research last week the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs concludes that the dutch workers work themselves to pieces. The Dutch are European top scorers in stress. Causes are re-organisations and budget cuts, the rationalisation of work processes (the use of… Read More
An ARD documentary on the illegal transport of BSE-infected English meat through Europe. Cattle bred in England, smuggled to Ireland where the stamps are cut away. New labels are attached and the meat is sold sold as European meat on the mainland. Activities: research and… Read More