The ('''NOS''', Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) is one of the Dutch broadcasters in the Dutch
Public Broadcasting system,
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.
The NOS was established by a law passed by the Dutch parliament on
28 February 1967 to merge the Netherlands Radio Union (established
1947 ) and the Netherlands Television Foundation (established
1951 ). It was given the requirement to co-ordinate the between the pillar organisations and run the transmitting stations, as well as providing at least 25% of television and 15% of radio output.
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 "
{Link without Title} from a heavily platform-oriented organisation into one that
achieves a balance between platform and theme orientation" 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).
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 new commercial television channel Talpa ), 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.
On the radio the NOS is responsible for the following programmes:
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 .
