Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging

Logo of the NCRV around 2012

Nederlandse Christelijke Radio Vereniging ( NCRV ; German: Dutch Christian Radio Association ) was a public broadcasting organization (Dutch: Publieke Omroepvereniging ) in the Netherlands , which existed from 1924 to 2018. It was one of the member associations of the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) and addressed the Protestant public. Then it merged with the Katholieke Radio Omroep (KRO) to form KRO-NCRV .

Origin and status

The NCRV was founded in 1924, making it one of the oldest public broadcasting companies in the Netherlands. After the broadcasting time resolution (Zendtijdbesluit) of May 15, 1930, NCRV shared the program slots on the Huizen broadcaster on an equal footing with the Katholieke Radio Omroep (KRO).

In addition to the KRO, the socialist VARA , the liberal AVRO and the free-spirited Protestant VPRO , NCRV was one of the five member associations of the Nederlandse Radio Unie (NRU) from 1947 , from 1951 also the Nederlandse Televisie Stichting (NTS) and from 1969 the merged one Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS). Unlike the German ARD , public broadcasting in the Netherlands was traditionally not structured according to regions, but according to denominations or world views, which was related to the phenomenon of verzuiling ("piling up") in society.

Individuals could become members of their preferred broadcaster. The number of members influenced how strongly the respective association was represented within the NPO. In 2014 the NCRV had 355,068 members. Until it was dissolved, it was one of the major member associations with "A status". The stations did not operate their own transmitters, but were given program slots on the joint radio and television channels of the NOS.

program

In the first decades after its founding, the broadcasting company's orientation was strictly reformed ( reformeerd ). The aim was to spread the Gospel and to “consolidate and support” the Protestant-Christian population . Among other things, services and morning devotions were broadcast.

In the course of time, the content of the NCRV focused more on social engagement. According to its own account, the broadcaster advocated tolerance and mutual sympathy on the basis of its Protestant-Christian tradition .

The NCRV television programs were last broadcast on NPO 1 and NPO 3 , but mostly on NPO 2 . The digital special interest channels Spirit 24 and Best 24 broadcast archive material from the NCRV. The radio programs are broadcast on NPO Radio 1 - NPO Radio 5 .

resolution

On January 1, 2014, the NCRV merged with the KRO and RKK to form the new KRO-NCRV association; in a transition phase, the predecessor institutions still appeared independently. After the end of the transition period, NCRV was finally dissolved on December 31, 2018.

Web links

• KRO-NCRV website (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See NCRV. In: Grote Winkler Prins online. Retrieved on October 15, 2014 (Dutch): "De protestant-christelijke grondslag went into the loop of the tijd een less grote rol spelen en de NCRV judge zich meer op maatschappelijk betrokken programma's die niet per definitie iets te maken hadden met het geloof." 
2. ^ Over de NCRV. (No longer available online.) NCRV, archived from the original on February 6, 2016 ; accessed on February 6, 2016 (Dutch): “De NCRV zet zich in voor een samenleving waarin mensen betrokken zijn bij elkaar. This is anchored in our protestants-christelijke traditie, van waaruit we ons judge op verdraagzaamheid en de zorg voor elkaar. " Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.