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.
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 collapse of the city archive in Cologne caused by the construction of a new underground railway line, the program Europamagzin from the German public TV channel ARD sends a reporter to the Netherlands to interview a specialised engineer and two inhabitants of some… Read More
In a special week of programs about the European economy on different European locations, Morgenmagazin, the morning program from the first German public TV channel ARD is broadcasting live from the Holland Flora flower auction in Aalsmeer in the Netherlands. Because the anchor people will… Read More
After the collapse of the city archive in Cologne caused by the construction of a new underground railway line, the background reportage program Tagesthemen from the German public TV channel ARD plans a reportage about the problems with the construction of a Amsterdam metro line… 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 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 floods 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
Halfway 2008 Greenpeace published a report on the industrial shellfish fishery along the coast of Mauretania. The conclusions are that both nature and the local economy are damaged severely. Greenpeace warns that the new plans of a Dutch shell fish fishery company will be even… Read More
Dutch researcher Maurice Crul from the University of Amsterdam visits the Metropolis conference in Bonn. A conference about integration in the European Union. Crul presents his research that concludes that, compared to the Netherlands, Belgium and especially France, migrant students in Germany stay behind in… Read More
The Netherlands District Court in The Hague will deliver its verdict on whether the Dutch state and its contingent of United Nations peace-keeping troops can be held responsible for handing over Bosnian refugees that looked for protection against Serb soldiers. In July 1995 Bosnians who… Read More
Faktor Giel is a weekly reality based Dutch television show, in which TV host Giel Beelen experiences excruciating experiments. Giel checks out how long he can stay in a freezing chamber, how it is to be buried alive or to be tortured. How does one… Read More