Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

Infobox Network
network_name = NOS
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country = NLD
network_type = Public broadcaster
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founded = 29 May 1969
website = [http://www.nos.nl/nos/voorpagina/ nos.nl] The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS, Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) is one of the broadcasters in the Dutch public broadcasting system, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. The NOS has a statutory obligation to make news and sports programmes for the three Dutch public television channels and the Dutch public radio services.

History and development

The NOS began operations on 29 May 1969, having been established by a law passed by the Dutch parliament on 28 February 1967. This law merged the Netherlands Radio Union (established in 1947) and the Netherlands Television Foundation (established in 1951) and charged the NOS with the tasks of co-ordinating the activities of the "pillar" broadcasting organizations, operating the transmitting stations, and providing at least 25% of all television and 15% of all radio output. ref|Paulu

Since December 1994, NOS responsibilities have been more and more confined to the provision of impartial news, sports and live events. A management plan is in place to restructure NOS by 2006 to create a 24-hour news-gathering organisation and to " [transform] from a heavily platform-oriented organisation into one thatachieves a balance between platform and theme orientation" ref|Hilversummary which may possibly mean splitting Publieke Omroep further from NOS.

NRU (Nederlandse Radio Unie) was one of 23 founding organisations of the European Broadcasting Union. Since September 2002, the Dutch membership of EBU is held by Netherlands Public Broadcasting (NPB).

Television

The television programmes of the NOS are all news or sports programs. The NOS is responsible for the following programmes:
* NOS Journaal - One of the most important news programmes in the Netherlands. It is broadcasted on all public television stations. The premier bulletin is the eight o'clock news on Nederland 1, but the NOS also has important editions of the Journaal at six and ten o'clock. In the morning, short editions of the Journaal (about 8-10 minutes) are broadcast every hour.
* NOS Jeugdjournaal - A news programme for children and teens aimed at 8 - 12 year olds.
* NOS Studio Sport - A sports programme covering the most popular sports, like Football (only international matches such as the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Champions League, the rights for the Dutch Eredivisie were bought in the summer of 2005 by the former commercial television channel Talpa, although this will change for the upcoming season), tennis, ice skating, cycling and field hockey. The editorial staff is also responsible for the NOS Sportjournaal, a news programme about sport.
* The NOS is also responsible for broadcasting special events, like the September 11 attacks, weddings of the Dutch royal family and the Dutch elections. (These department was called NOS Actueel, but that name is defunct since on 1-1-2006 NOS RTV changed its corporate identity)
* NOVA/NOS Den Haag Vandaag - A current affairs programme. The NOS is only responsible for 'Den Haag Vandaag' (The Hague Today), the political coverage in the programme. VARA and NPS, two other Dutch public broadcasters, are responsible for the rest of the programme.
* The Eurovision Song Contest and its national final (sometimes in cooperation with other broadcasters).

Radio

On the radio the NOS is responsible for the following programmes:
* NOS Journaal, a radio news bulletin that is broadcast every hour on the public broadcasting channels.
* NOS Headlines, a radio news bulletin espacially made for a younger audience (like Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1), broadcast on 3FM and FunX.
* NOS Radio 1 Journaal, a current affairs programme that is broadcast on Radio 1.
* NOS Langs de lijn (Along the sideline), a sports programme on Radio 1.
* NOS Met het Oog op Morgen (With a view to tomorrow), a late-night current affairs programme on Radio 1.

Internet

The NOS is also responsible for the news and sports site of the Dutch public broadcasters. The editorial staff of the internet pages is also responsible for the teletext pages on Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3.

References

# Paulu, Burton (1967). "Radio and Television Broadcasting on the European Continent" pp. 71-75. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
# "Hilversummary" magazine number 2, June 2005, pp. 4-5, "On the way to a 'New NOS'". [http://pics.portal.omroep.nl/upnos/ZcafdqgHeB_HilverSummary_June_2005.pdf PDF document available]

See also

* Public broadcasting

External links

* [http://www.nos.nl/ Website NOS] (Dutch)
* [http://www.nosjournaal.nl/ Website NOS Journaal] (Dutch)
* [http://www.nosstudiosport.nl/ Website NOS Studio Sport] (Dutch)
* [http://www.amerikakiest.nl/ NOS website about the American elections] (Dutch; some [http://www.nos.nl/amerikakiest/opinie_debat/dagboeken/index_eng.html parts] are in English though)
* [http://portal.omroep.nl/nossites?nav=dvvmDsHjCqBrEdCmL English portal of the Dutch public broadcasting organizations]