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 verdict is given in the lawsuit started by the group Mothers of Srebrenica at a civil court in The Hague. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths of… Read More
Ten members of the group Mothers of Srebrenica ask a civilian court in The Hague to waive the UN’s immunity from prosecution. The group, which represents 6,000 relatives of the victims, says the UN and the Dutch state are in part responsible for the deaths… Read More
The question is, will Kenya’s dairy farmers survive if Kenya and the other countries in the east African region enter into an economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union? The deadline for the talks is December 31 and even at this late stage, negotiations… Read More
Most of the chicken cages from Kofi, a chicken farmer in Ghana, are empty. Around 90% of the chicken farmers in Ghana already went bankrupt because they cannot sell chicken meat anymore. According to traders it is too expensive. This is because chicken meat from… Read More
When German doctors threaten with Strikes for more salary, for the political program Monitor from the German first public TV channel ARD Europe correspondent Mario von Haaren plans a reportage on how the Dutch organise their health insurance system.
Every year, on April 30, the Dutch Queen and her family visit a region in the Netherlands to celebrate the traditional Queens day, the birthday of her mother, the late Princess Juliana. This year Queen Beatrix visits two towns in the province of Friesland. The… Read More
During the opening of the new exhibition ‘Amsterdam and the House of Orange’ at the Amsterdam Historical Museum, Queen Beatrix saw her life reflected. Although most of the exhibit shows the centuries of often testy relations between Amsterdam and the princely, later royal family, there… Read More
Johannes Heesters, a 104-year-old Dutch cabaret singer who once performed in Nazi Germany has given a concert in the Netherlands for the first time in four decades. It was Heesters’ first performance in his homeland since the 1960s. There were protests and tight security around… Read More
Since a while the status of the multicultural society is under discussion in Germany. A German documentary maker from the broadcaster Südwestrundfunk comes to the Netherlands for research and the set-up of filming for a documentary about the status of the multicultural society in The… Read More
The council of the Amsterdam Centre district declared that the tree behind the Anne Frank house, has to be cut down on due to the risk that it could otherwise fall down by itself and cause damage. But a second opinion analysis by the Dutch… Read More
Europol give a press conference in The Hague to announce the dismantling of a worldwide child sex offender’s network. The case, named ‘Operation Koala’, began in 2006 when a child abuse video was discovered in Australia. This particular video had been produced in Belgium. A… Read More
The TV-program Monitor from the German public broadcaster ARD is producing a reportage about the German links to the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers’ Party), a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of south eastern Turkey and… Read More