NEDERLAND 3

'Nederland 3' (English: Netherlands 3) is the third and youngest of the terrestrial television channels operated by the Dutch public-broadcasting organization NPO and carrying programmes provided by member-based non-profit broadcasting associations. It is oriented towards children, youth and innovative television.

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History

Programming

See also

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History

Nederland 3 was established on 4 April 1988. The original plan was for the third Dutch public television channel to be a joint venture with the Flemish public broadcaster VRT (then called BRT), which would specialize in Flemish-Dutch cultural programming. This plan failed however.
Nederland 3 became the home channel of the broadcasters VPRO, VARA, RVU, and NPS, all of which share a progressive outlook. The channel focused on news, debate, culture and innovative television. Before the evening peak the channel's programming, organized by NPO under the label Z@ppelin, was aimed at children.
In September 2006, the programming of NPO's television channels was changed slightly. Today Nederland 3 still focuses on children during the daytime. In the evening it aims to reach an open-minded audience with innovative, educational television and occasionally sport. All Dutch public broadcasting organizations have air-time on Nederland 1, 2, and 3; youth-oriented broadcaster BNN's programmes, however, are broadcast only on Nederland 3.
In the last decades the public broadcast stations are under pressure by governemental short vision and commercially operating stations aiming for an audience that seems to care for pulp TV only. One of the debates heard every so often is that the three public networks should focus more on independent programming modeled after the BBC, while many others don't see the link between a well educated and well informed public and the economic future of the country.

Programming

Between 06:50 and 19:00 Z@ppelin and Z@PP broadcast television oriented at children, this includes educational television.
After 19:00 the programming for adults starts. On weekdays the channel broadcasts a soap opera (Onderweg naar Morgen) and a talk show (De Wereld Draait Door). The rest of the programming is filled with movies, series, cabaret and successful programs such as Top of the Pops, De Lama's, Spuiten en Slikken en Raymann is Laat. It also broadcasts European Football such as the UEFA Champions League en UEFA Cup live.

See also

★ Television networks in the Netherlands

External links

★ Nederlands 3