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 and more questiones come up around the ELAL plane crash in the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer, a special Dutch parliamentary study group is formed to make an inventory of the effects of the crash. Visiting the lawyer starting several procedures against the Dutch State and… Read More
Because of some deaths caused by synthetic drugs on the trendy gigantic house parties, the Dutch to state enforces conditions for the organisation of house parties. Besides demands on the availability of water, oxygen and professional advise, the Dutch authorities demands the presence of a… Read More
In The Hague the Kurdish parliament in exile is founded. Activities: research.
The first and last ‘Cage Fight’ in the city Emmen in the Netherlands. Multi-disciplined fighters battle fights in a cage with practically no rules and limitations. Reportage about the fighters, the public, the tournament itself and the moral in’s and out’s of extreme fighting. A… Read More
A reportage about an exhibition on death in society called ‘In the midst of life, we are in death’, in the gallery of the Amsterdam art society ‘Arti et Amicitiae’. Curator Harry Heyink: ‘Obviously death plays a vital role in art, but in this exhibition… Read More
The Dutch Agricultural University Wageningen is doing tests to analyse how chickens communicate. A research to know more about the welfare of battery chickens for the design of new housing-systems. Activities: propose item idea, research, set up and planning, accompany filming.
A reportage on a course ‘how to smoke a cigar’ given in the famous Amsterdam cigar shop P.G.C. Hajenius, and a background story on the oldest Cigar Club of Holland – women included. A sumptuous dinner with the club in one of the oldest restaurants… Read More
Interviewing scientists, researchers and journalists to investigate the notorious Second World War past of the Dutch prince Bernhard. Was the prince a member of the Nazi party NSDAP? An ARD Tagesschau news reportage. Activities: research, set-up, planning and accompany filming.
Reportage on the renewal of the the famous ideological Amsterdam high rise block district the Bijlmermeer. The set back of the ideal living of the seventies and the search of a solution for the urban social problems in the nineties. Activities: research, set-up and planning… Read More
Job already knows for years he is HIV-positive. Now he got Aids. But he does not want to hide, he wants to live. Especially socially. That is why he started a relation agency for incurable patients. When people get love, understanding and support they live… Read More
An ARD Tagesthemen news reportage about the obliged course for new Dutch citizens in how to live and behave in the Dutch society. A group of Turkish, Moroccan, Portuguese, Iranian and Iraqi newcomers get a combination of classroom lessons and learn the Dutch society in… Read More
Anticipating on the future banning of the Dutch anti-brothel law in Holland, the Amsterdam council starts a semi-licensing system for the exploiters of prostitution-companies. Juridically this is impossible because the exploitation of a brothel is illegal, but the Dutch steer the well-known ‘pragmatical middle course’… Read More