Welcome to my presentation

The media in the Netherlands

Jouke BreitsmaLeeuwarden Polytechnic

A Dutch presentation

During the presentation I ask you to be freeand ask questions or to tell me when youdon’t understand. Be open and free like theDutch people.

Image of the Netherlands• Liberal• Open minded

The subjects

• Radio

• Television

• Newspapers (and news agencies)

In three parts

Part 1: Radio, Television & Newspapers

Part 2: History of Dutch media - pillarization

Part 3: Sources of information & question time

The End

Radio in the Netherlands

• Public Radio

• Commercial Radio

Public (national) Radio

Radio Broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 246, shortwave 3

Radio 1Radio 2Radio 3 FMRadio 4Radio 747 AM

Public (regional) Radio 1

Friesland: Omrop FryslânGroningen: RTV NoordDrenthe: RTV DrentheNoord-Holland: RTV N-HZuid-Holland: RTV Rijnmond & RTV WestZeeland: Omroep Zeeland

Public (regional) Radio 2

Overijsel: RTV OostGelderland:Omroep GelderlandUtrecht: RTV UtrechtFlevoland: Omroep FlevolandLimburg: L1Noord-Brabant: Omroep Brabant

Commercial Radio

Radio 538 Sky radio VeronicaQ-music Yorin FM Radio 10 GoldRtl FM Radio Fantastica Favorite FMKink FM Kink Aardschok Smart FMZeilsteen Radio Paradise FM NPS

OutputYam FM Radio 527 Juize FMSLAM! FM

Only the most important radio stations are written above

Television

There are 4 Public broadcasters

Nederland 1, 2, 3, 4

There are 3 commercial groups

RTL Group Nederland, SBS Group and Talpa

Numbers of television channels in Europe

Public Commercial Total • Netherlands 3 6 9 • Germany 2 6 8 • France 3 3 6 • Italy 3 3 6 • Belgium • – Flanders 2 3 5 • – Wallonia 3 2 5 • Great Britain 2 3 5 • Spain 2 3 5 • Sweden 2 3 5 • Austria 2 1 3

Source: TNO, Quick Scan, 2004. Exclusive the new broadcasting group Talpa.

Public broadcasters (1)

Non-profit broadcasting organizations

• AVRO secular - for the general public• BNN• EO Protestant Christian Evangelical

broadcaster (has a strong evangelical nature).• KRO Catholic-liberal broadcaster• NCRV The main Protestant broadcaster

(liberal)• TROS• VARA left-wing labour oriented background• VPRO liberal protestant

Development membership to public televison

1992 2004

AVRO 608.885 392.933

EO 499.410 476.169

KRO 577.310 476.489

NCRV 507.945 364.823

TROS 530.301 430.918

VARA 544.103 419.998

VPRO 523.428 361.893

BNN 216.446

De Nieuwe Omroep 52.191

MAX 65.155

Number of members 3.791.382 3.257.015

Total number of households (CBS)

6.266.000 7.052.458

Average membership of households

60,5% 46,2%

Public broadcasters (2)

Aspirant-omroep 50.000C-status within two years

C-status 100.000-150.000B-status omroep met 150.000-300.000A-status +300.000

Public broadcasters (3)

• BOS: A small Buddhist broadcaster.• Humanistische Omroep: A small broadcaster dedicated to secular

Humanism.• IKON: A small broadcaster representing a diverse set of nine

Christian churches.• Joodse Omroep: Dutch-Jewish broadcaster• LLiNK: environment and human rights• NIO: Small Islamic broadcaster• NMO:Small Islamic broadcaster• OHM: Small Hindu broadcaster.• Omroep MAX: aimed at the over 50's.• OF: Omrop Fryslân• RKK: Small Roman Catholic broadcaster• RVU• PP• TELEAC/NOT: Larger educational broadcaster. • ZvK: broadcasts church services from some smaller protestant

churches.

Public broadcasters (4)

NOS: News, parliamentary reporting & sports

NPS: Produces cultural, informative, youth and

minority-oriented television

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Newspapers (1)

• AD – Algemeen Dagblad• Nederlandse Dagblad• NRC Handelsblad• Parool• Telegraaf• Trouw• de Volkskrant

• Metro• Sp!ts

Newspapers (2)

Name newspaper Oplage PublisherDe Telegraaf 750.000 Telegraaf Media GroepAlgemeen Dagblad ± 570.000 PCM UitgeversSp!ts 358.000 Telegraaf Media GroepMetro 340.000 Metro Hollandde Volkskrant 305.000 UitgeversNRC Handelsblad 225.000 PCM UitgeversTrouw 106.000 PCM UitgeversHet Parool 6.000 OnverveerdReformatorisch Dagblad 60.000 Erde Media GroepHet Financieel Dagblad 54.000 Nederlands DagbladBarneveld 35.000 Nederlands DagbladAgrarisch Dagblad 14.000 Reed Business InformationNederlandse Staatscourant 9.000 Sdu Uitgevers

News agencies (1)

The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) is the

leading news agency of the Netherlands. ANP was

founded by the association of Dutch newspapers

NDP.

VNU – cooperation between regional and lokalnewspapers.

News agencies (2)

Persbureau

ZOP/VNU inactive (2000)

Geassocieerde Pers DienstAlgemeen Nederlands PersbureauPersUnieIPS Nederland

History of the Dutch media

Pillarisation

Definition: Multicultural society which has bin

divided in segments or pillars which live separately

from each other .

Pillarisation (1)

3 / 4 pillars

• Roman-Catholic• Protestant• Socialist

• Pillarless or Liberal

Pillarisation (2)

Pillar Political party UnionCatholic RKSP NKVv

Protestant

ARP / CHU CNV

Socialist SDAP NVV

Liberal VDP / LSP ANWW

Pillarisation (3)

Pillar Broadcasting organization

Newspapers

Catholic KRO de Volkskrant

Protestant

NCRV Trouw

Socialist Vara Het Vrije Volk

Liberal Avro NRC

Pillarisation (4)

Schools, hospitals, sport clubs and other clubs for

entertainment .

60’s - depillarisationTelevision & mass media

Diversity in the Netherlands

83% Dutch17% other (9% non-Western origin mainly

Turks,Moroccans, Antilleans,

Surinamese, and Indonesians)

Roman Catholic 31%Dutch Reformed 13%Calvinist 7%Muslim 5.5%other 2.5%Atheist 41%

Sources

www.minocw.nl - Website of the ministry of Education, Culture

& Sciences

www.nl.wikipedia.org

www.vandale.nl

www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook

The End

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