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.
On 15 October tens of thousands of people along the route of the funeral procession paid their last respects to Prince Claus, husband of Queen Beatrix, who died on 6 October. The prince’s body was transferred to the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft in a grey… Read More
The Netherlands is called the Columbia of Europe mainly because of XTC production and export, but also because of the heroin transfers to the UK, Germany and France. For a reportage for the program Europamagazin from the first German public TV channel ARD, Europe correspondent… Read More
For a reportage about the Dutch national elections for the prgram Tagesthemen correspondent Ingeborg Haffert from the Brussels bureau from the German first public TV broadcaster ARD needs footage from the program Business Class, a commercial Dutch television programme on RTL 7 presented by real… Read More
What do elderly gays think of the success of the new populist party of the late Pim Fortuyn, his party List Pim Fortuyn, and the tensions that arise in the Dutch society he, especially after the eccentric politician was so brutally assassinated just a few… Read More
After the assassination of the Dutch politician, founder of the List Pim Fortuyn Party, but also author, civil servant, businessman and sociologist, Pim Fortuyn the Dutch society is in total shock. For different programs for the first German public TV channel ARD reporters Michale Grytz… Read More
The Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, was the July 1995 genocidal killing of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian War. It was mainly perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb… Read More
After long talks and a lot of research the Netherlands will finally start a small experiment in giving free heroine to problematic drug addicts. Apart from this the cities Rotterdam and The Hague habe set up so called living rooms for hard drugs addicts, where… Read More
For some time the German economy is not doing so well. The German government wants to stimulate people with social security to take simple low paid part time jobs by giving them serious tax benefits. Through this measure the German authorities expect to create hundred… Read More
Over the last years many smart shops where established in different Dutch cities. New outlets for new drugs attracting loads of European tourists. The main smart drug is the magic mushroom, but there is a possibility that the Dutch higher court will pronounce a sentence… Read More
War criminal Dirk Hoogendam alias ‘The Boxer’ was sentenced to death by the court in the Dutch town Assen after World War II for several violent assaults and batteries and participating in foreign military service. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. However, Dirk… Read More
Although homosexuality is very accepted in Holland and Amsterdam is seen as the gay capital of Europe, it is still a taboo in old people’s homes. Elderly homosexuals fear the moment they will need care. An ordinary nursing home in Amsterdam established the L.A. Ries… Read More
On the morning that the Dutch Senate is approving a new law, full title Control of Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide Act, that is legalising euthanasia in the Netherlands the program Morgenmagazin from the German first public broadcaster ARD broadcasts live from… Read More