BVN

BVN ( het van Vlaanderen en Nederland best ), the Dutch-speaking public television station for Dutch and Flemish abroad. BVN is operated by NPO based in Hilversum. This is the transmitter is a collaboration of the Dutch public broadcasting NPO and the Flemish Radio and Television VRT, like 3sat for German -speaking or French -speaking channel TV5 Monde.

The program consists primarily of news, documentaries, series, talk shows, children's programs and entertainment on Nederland 1, 2 and 3 (including Zappelin and Zapp ) and VRT Een, Canvas, Ketnet/Op12. Since 25 March 2007, a 12-hour block (from 13:00 bis 1:00 clock ) is sent and then repeated once, so that BVN broadcasts 24 hours a day.

BVN is via the Astra satellite 1L ( 19.2 ° East ) digital broadcast unencrypted in Europe, and over various other satellites. Some cable networks and hotels spread BVN analog.

History

The program started in 1996 under the name Zomer TV ( Summer TV ) as a program for the Dutch tourists in Europe. It was first broadcast only a few hours a day unencrypted over one of the Astra satellites. The program has been gradually evolved into a worldwide Dutch international broadcaster, which bore the name BVN as an abbreviation for Best het van Nederland. Following the arrival of the Flemish broadcasting the abbreviation umgemünzt on today's long form. The station was originally a project of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep but this is no longer associated with it since 2013, because Radio Nederland Wereldomroep got a antere order.

Reception

BVN is digitally broadcasted by Kabel BW in developed areas. Cable Germany, the proliferation of BVN temporarily suspended on 25 May 2010 and provides the signal from BVN now back in removed areas are available. In the cable networks of Unity Media (North Rhine -Westphalia and Hesse ), and in the home TV service from Alice BVN is missing on the other hand completely. Only in some frontier parts of NRW Nederland 2 is fed into the analog Unity Media cable networks instead. In NetCologne powered networks in North Rhine -Westphalia Nederland 1 and Nederland 2 are network-wide digital, also broadcast in analogue in the Aachen area. In Norderstedt and around BVN is spread by wilhelm.tel or the connected local cable operators. M-net feeds BVN in Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg and Erlangen. Various cable networks in Switzerland distribute BVN.