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 a Dutchman designed the Gatso meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now an experiment with a new system called route control is started in the Netherlands. A system where different video camera’s record traffic over several kilometres highway and a… Read More
In a dramatic television appearance February 4, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of the Pakistani bomb, acknowledged that during the past two decades he had secretly provided North Korea, Libya, and Iran with crucial technological and intellectual building blocks for making nuclear weapons. Khan, considered… Read More
After a German woman is caught with packs of cocaine in her body, for a reportage for the news program Tagesschau the Brussels bureau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD wants to know how the recruiting of European cocaine body packers works and… Read More
Amsterdam police chief J. Kuiper warned his 6,000 officers in a letter that they should not use ‘party drugs’ in their spare time. Use of tolerated drugs is ‘dereliction of duty’ for officers and can lead to dismissal. Last year, nine Amsterdam cops were caught… Read More
Since the 1 of January of 2003 imams with a temporary permit of stay in the Netherlands are obliged to do a special naturalisation course for newcomers. One of the foreign imams became the talk of the town because he offended homosexuals. The naturalisation course… Read More
A majority of the Dutch lower house wants to lift the ban on the adoption of foreign children by gay-couples. This is the result of the discussion that arose after the Dutch gay TV-producer and personality Paul de Leeuw and his friend adopted an American… Read More
GHB (gamma hydroxy butyrate) is an anaesthetic formerly used in surgery and it has been used in the medical setting as treatment for cataplexy, narcolepsy, and alcoholism. But these days GHB is also sold as a recreational drug. A colourless drink and sometimes also as… Read More
In the former Dutch fishery town of Volendam ten people died and about 130 are injured after fire swept through a cafe packed with teenagers. Several other youngsters suffered severe burns or smoke inhalations, and about 20 of these victims had to be taken to… Read More
While millions of Dutch chickens are killed to fight the Avian Influenza virus spreading like wildfire, the first cases of the disease are reported in Germany. For a reportage about the outbreak for the program Morgenmagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD reporter… Read More
Coffeshops and calvinists. And now this – Dutch support for the war in Iraq. People? Nothing asked. Liberal model? What’s going on? Is that it? The live program Morgenmagazin from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD organises a live transmission from the Rotterdam harbour… Read More
After a Dutchman designed the Gatso meter, the famous speeding camera so often seen besides roads, now experiments take place in the Netherlands with a new speeding system called ‘route control’. A system where different camera’s record traffic over several kilometres meters highway and a… Read More
Two years after the Dutch prostitution branch became totally legal, by lifting the so called Brothel Law, filming director Ralf Gierkes travels to the Netherlands to make reportages for the program Europamagazin from the German first public TV channel ARD and for the for the… Read More