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.
The German weekly Der Spiegel reports that personnel from the Royal Dutch Aircraft Factory Fokker’ will be fired. The magazine predicts bankruptcy before 1996. The German group DASA is said to have bought ‘a cat in the bag’ with Fokker. DASA is to carry out… Read More
Thirty minute documentary about the annoyance caused by hard drug users in the Dutch city Arnhem. Marcel is an addict trying to survive. Since he thinks it is not right to steal, he sells small quantities of heroine to pay for his own use. Henk… Read More
Reportage on soft drug tourism in the Netherlands for the ARD background reportage program Weltspiegel. Many Germans visit border cities like Venlo and Arnhem to buy soft drugs. How does this work in practice and how do these cities cope with this phenomenon. Interviews with… Read More
A background reportage, for the program Tagesthemen from the first German public TV channel ARD, about the rise of the illegal indoor cultivation of Skunk, Dutch marijuana. Portraits of private and commercial growers. Filming in a grow shop that sells everything that is needed to… Read More