Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
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| Radio station (foundation) | |
| reception | Satellite , internet |
| Reception area | worldwide |
| Start of transmission | April 15, 1947 |
| owner | Dutch state |
| Broadcaster | Stichting Radio Nederland Wereldomroep |
| Intendant | Jan Hoek |
| List of radio stations | |
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Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (RNW) is the international service of the Dutch radio . It is borne by the Dutch government. The station is based in Hilversum and operates in the legal form of a foundation. Since 2013, RNW has been aimed at adolescents and young adults in the 15 to 30 age group from countries where freedom of expression is not given. These should only be addressed via the Internet; which is why RNW has discontinued its classic radio offering.
history
The first shortwave broadcasts from the Netherlands were directed to the Dutch East Indies . They began on March 11, 1927. The PCJ shortwave transmitter was used by Philips in Eindhoven . The callsign "PCJ" has sometimes been translated as peace, cheer, and joy ("peace, jubilation and joy"). On March 31, 1927, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands spoke to the citizens of the colonies via the transmitter.
During the Second World War , the BBC made its stations available for Radio Oranje , which, under the direction of Henk van den Broek, produced programs for the German-occupied Netherlands.
After the liberation of Eindhoven, broadcasting under the name Radio Nederland Herrijzend was resumed on October 3, 1944. The first “world program” for Dutch people abroad was broadcast on May 24, 1945 on the BBC. At that time, the Dutch radio no longer had its own transmission systems because they had been destroyed in the war. It took until October 13, 1945, until they could be repaired and the “Foundation Radio Netherlands in Transition” ( Stichting Radio Nederland in den Overgangstijd ) could start regular broadcasting.
In the period that followed, international and domestic broadcasting were separated from each other. The latter was set up as a foundation in the Stichting Radio Nederland Wereldomroep with effect from April 15, 1947 , and Henk van den Broek was appointed chairman. It broadcast in Dutch, Indonesian, English and Spanish, mainly news and cultural programs. The offer has since been expanded in several steps. From 1949, programs in Arabic and Afrikaans were added. Since 1969 they have also broadcast in French, and since 1974 the offer has been expanded to include a Portuguese language service that produces programs for Brazil. Since 1952 the broadcast has also been broadcast for Dutch emigrants in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
The shortwave relay stations on Bonaire and Madagascar opened in 1969 and 1972, respectively. The Flevo shortwave transmitter was mainly used by RNW since 1985, but was later given up in favor of transmitters abroad.
Since 1960, RNW has had a television department that sells Dutch television productions to foreign broadcasters.
From 1991 programs were sent to South America via satellite, which could be re-broadcast there by local radio stations.
The internet has been used since 1996.
RNW was a member of Euranet .
Since 2010 the cooperation between RNW and the national broadcaster Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NOS) has been strengthened.
RNW's programs were no longer aimed at Dutch people abroad, but were instead committed to promoting freedom of expression and information in those parts of the world where freedom of the press is currently still restricted. Target regions were therefore the Middle East, Africa, China and Latin America.
As a result, after 65 years, on May 11, 2012, broadcasts in Dutch were discontinued. The funds for foreign service have been cut by 70 percent. In addition, funding will no longer come from the Dutch Ministry of Culture, but from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the end of the broadcast, a 24-hour farewell program was produced in Dutch, which was broadcast on the shortwave frequencies 5955 kHz via the Wertachtal transmitter , 9895 kHz via the Nauen transmitter and the relay stations Madagascar and Bonaire. In addition, the British medium wave transmitter Orfordness was used on the frequency 1296 kHz. This ended the RNW broadcasts on shortwave.
On June 29, 2012, the Spanish language service of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep was also discontinued. The future of the programs in English and Indonesian was initially uncertain. On June 11, 2012 it was announced that the English service would be discontinued at the end of the month. The live stream on the Internet also ended on June 29, 2012. On that day there was a farewell broadcast by the English editorial team. The website will continue to be updated, but current reports on the Netherlands will no longer be offered here either.
Programs and reception
The programs were broadcast in all regions of the world via shortwave from transmitters in Madagascar and Bonaire as well as from Germany. Radio Nederland is a member of the DRM consortium and broadcast numerous programs in digital modulation in DRM mode. Since the DRM system has not yet been able to establish itself in Europe and the broadcasting concepts of RNW have changed, these digital programs were abandoned.
The broadcast was in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Chinese, Arabic, French and Surinamese.
For Flemings and Dutch people abroad, the TV program BVN is broadcast worldwide via satellite in cooperation with the Belgian Flemish broadcaster VRT .
In recent years, the Internet has been used more and more to distribute the program. The programs in Dutch, English and Spanish were offered continuously through a live stream over the Internet until the end of June 2012 . There was a player for this on the station's website. In addition, podcasts and audio on demand were available as streaming for individual programs. There was also an ongoing channel, RNW Classical , which featured classical music recordings by Dutch performers and orchestras.
The English language service from RNW
One of the well-known programs of the English-language service was the media magazine Media Network , which for many years was hosted by Jonathan Marks. The broadcast was dedicated to international radio. After she was hired, Andy Sennitt continued media coverage until his retirement in March 2012 in his blog of the same name, which continued to attract attention from shortwave listeners.
Another long-term broadcast on RNW's English and Spanish programs was the Happy Station Show , which was hosted by Eddie Startz from 1928 to 1969 and then by Tom Meijer until 1993. In the last two years before it was discontinued, the show was hosted by Pete Myers and Jonathan Groubert on RNW's English programming. The Happy Station Show was an audience-partaking entertainment program on Sunday. It was the longest running entertainment show on international radio.
RNW's English-language service broadcasts always started at half an hour GMT and lasted 55 minutes. They started with a ten minute news bulletin every day except Sundays, followed by a news magazine that lasted twenty minutes. A feature program followed . On Sundays the whole show - until it was discontinued - consisted only of the Happy Station Show.
The feature programs have been broadcast continuously since the introduction of the live stream. RNW no longer has its own news programs.
Web links
- Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
- Historical Sound Archive - Archive with historical recordings from RNW
- Media Network Vintage Vault 2012 - Historical recordings from the Media Network 1980–2000 show by Jonathan Marks
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.rnw.org/about-rnw
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the description follows the self-portrayal of the station in: History of Radio Netherlands Worldwide ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rnw.nl. November 12, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ a b Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg . In: Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present. 2003. Retrieved May 12, 2012 via Credo Reference.
- ↑ Andy Sennitt: RNW to increase cooperation with NOS ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . in: Media Network. March 23, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ a b c RNW’s Dutch-language service falls silent ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rnw.nl. May 11, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ Sweeping changes for RNW as it falls under the ax ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rnw.nl. June 26, 2011. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Kai Ludwig: Program settings at RNW ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Radio News. Radio One. May 12, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- ^ Adieu, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep! . In: dxaktuell.de. May 10, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ↑ a b What's on this week? - The last RNW program schedule ( memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . In: rnw.nl. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
- ↑ We're changing ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rnw.nl. June 11, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
- ↑ Andy Sennitt: Media Network ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: blogs.rnw.nl. October 2003 – March 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
