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.
In Germany a congress is organised about the security in hospitals against resistant bacteria and viruses. The German public TV reportage program Tagesthemen wants to find out how the Dutch are protecting patients and hospital personnel against antibiotics resistant bacteria. It turns out that washing… Read More
The new Dutch austerity measures also include serious spending cuts in the youth care branch. In Rotterdam the company Sagenn lost all its subsidies, and according to the personnel it is not if, but when things will go horribly wrong with some of the youngsters… Read More
An organ transplant scandal, involving data manipulation to have patients jump the long waiting lists for organs, has shocked Germany. The German public TV program ARD Tagesthemen wants to know how the Dutch, also part of the Eurotransplant area, are treating waiting lists and organs…. Read More
Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch company producing premium chocolate bars made form delectable Belgian chocolate. Tony’s Chocolonely goes steps beyond Fair Trade in their chocolate-making, industry-changing, slavery-free chocolate mission. Because the child slavery in the coca branch is discussed in the European Parliament, the German… Read More
In February six specialised Dutch mobile teams, each with a doctor, started to carry out euthanasia at the home of patients whose own family doctor refuses to help. As all other patients, the patients helped by the mobile teams need to face a future of… Read More
In two days both princess Maxima and Queen Beatrix open and visit two exhibitions in the Netherlands. Princess Maxima opens ‘The treasures from the forbidden city’, an exhibition of 18th century musical clocks, of which many have been restored by restorers from the Dutch Musical… Read More
On the day of the final of the world cup football The German public TV morning program ARD Morgenmagazin visits the Orionstraat, the street elected as the most orange street in Amsterdam. In three live broadcasts reporter Michael Heussen checks out the wild orange decorations… Read More
The German employment minister is visiting the Netherlands. For a reportage for the news program Tagesschau a TV crew from the German public TV channel ARD is following the minister during the visit. Video material needs to be picked up and fed via satellite to… Read More
For an investigative reportage about the Dutch military presence in Afghanistan program Monitor from the German public TV channel ARD needs extra information about the purchase of military equipment and wants advice about specialists to be interviewed.
Preceding the European elections the first German public TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighbouring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The evening program Tagesthemen broadcasts live from the centre of Amsterdam. Dutch historian, writer and documentary… Read More
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
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