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Twice a day (morning and early evening), the NOS produces a news programme especially for youth aged 9 to 12. In case of breaking news, the NOS can override the scheduled programming on public channel NPO 1 (tv) and NPO Radio 1 in order to report live. The NOS Eight O’clock News, the flagship evening news programme, averages a little over two million viewers, making it the best watched tv-programme in the Netherlands on most nights (including tv-programmes on commercial stations). Among these productions are (half)hourly news bulletins on radio and television. The News department produces many news programmes on all platforms. NOS staff and studios are based in Hilversum, along with most other broadcasting and audiovisual companies in the Netherlands.īoard of directors: Gerard Timmer (CEO) and Geert Hofman (CFO).

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The NOS has around 650 full time staff, some 350 of whom work for the News department, around 150 for the Sports department and around 15 for the Events department. The public broadcasting system in the Netherlands consists of three tv-channels and six radio stations nationwide and thirteen regional television and radio broadcasters. It operates independently from the government, even though the Dutch public broadcasting system is partially funded by tax payers’ money (and partially by the revenue of commercials). The Dutch Broadcasting Foundation (Nederlandse Omroep Stichting – NOS) was founded in May 1969 through a merger of the Netherlands Radio Union (NRU, established in 1947) and the Netherlands Television Union (NTU, established in 1951).īy law and by its mission statement, the NOS must provide objective coverage of news, sports and (inter)national events on all available media for all inhabitants of the Netherlands in order to inform them and thus enable them to better form their own opinion.

All of this makes the NOS the premier source of information in the Netherlands. The NOS does this within the framework of the Dutch public broadcasting system and through a wide array of platforms: television, radio, online ( mobile apps, teletext, smart tv’s, game consoles, narrow-casting and social networks. As the largest news organization of the Netherlands, the NOS offers reliable, independent round-the-clock reporting on news, current affairs, sports and national and international events.