Radio Netherlands Hilversum

Broadcasting Stations; Netherlands

  • Year
  • 1947
  • Category
  • Commercial Transmitter (TX not Transceiver)
  • Radiomuseum.org ID
  • 268082

 Technical Specifications

  • Main principle
  • Transmitter
  • Loudspeaker
  • - - No sound reproduction output.
  • from Radiomuseum.org
  • Model: Radio Netherlands Hilversum - Broadcasting Stations;
  • Notes
  • Text extracts from Wikipedia:

    "Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW; Dutch: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep) was a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands.

    Radio Netherlands Worldwide has also distributed content via web and e-mail technology from as early as 1992. On June 14, 2012, Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) announced that it will end its Indonesian and English broadcast services on June 29, 2012, due to steep budgets cuts imposed by the Dutch government and a concomitant change in focus.

    Earlier in the year, on May 10, 2012, the broadcaster ended its Dutch language service. Its services in Dutch, English and Indonesian languages ceased in 2012 due to steep budgets cuts imposed by the Dutch government and a concomitant change in focus. The last programme broadcast on shortwave was a daily half-hour show in Spanish for Cuba named El Toque (The Touch), which ended on 1 August 2014.

    Due to government directives, the service implemented a new mandate in 2013 to promote free speech and independent journalism using new media in areas where people are not free to gather information or to form and express independent opinions and ceased operations as a broadcaster. For information on RNW's current incarnation see RNW. 

    History:

    The Netherlands started international broadcasting with regular transmissions starting in 1927 from the Philips shortwave stations PHOHI (in Dutch to the Dutch East Indies - now Indonesia) and PCJJ in Eindhoven.

    Prewar technical innovations were the following: Broadcasts were considerably improved in 1937 with the construction of beam antennas supported by the world's first wooden antenna masts rotatable on two concentric circular rails at the transmitter site in Huizen. Rotatable shortwave antennas were not in common use until the 1960s, so PCJ was far ahead of its time with its introduction of rotatable HRS type antennas. Dutch broadcasting in exile

    Broadcasts from the Netherlands were interrupted by the German invasion in May 1940.

    The transmitters in Huizen were used for pro-Nazi broadcasts, some originating from Germany, others concerts from Dutch broadcasters under German control. The Dutch government in exile was granted air-time on BBC transmitters in 1941.

    The programme Radio Oranje was a daily commentary on the Dutch situation both in the Netherlands and the rest of the empire (Dutch East and West Indies).

    One of the chief commentators on Radio Oranje, Henk van den Broek, was given the task of restarting public broadcasting once the country was liberated. On 3 October 1944, van den Broek travelled to freed Eindhoven and began broadcasts as Radio Herrijzend Nederland.

    Birth of Radio Netherlands Worldwide. On 24 May 1945, a programme for Dutch people living abroad was transmitted with the help of the BBC.

    In July 1945, the Dutch government founded the Stichting Radio Nederland in den Overgangstijd (Radio Netherlands in Time of Transition Foundation) which was in charge of national and international broadcasts.

    Later, the government decided to separate national and international broadcasting.

    On 15 April 1947, the Stichting Radio Nederland Wereldomroep (Radio Netherlands International Foundation) was established."

     

     

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