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4 unusual facts about Nederlandse Omroep Stichting


Bart Veldkamp

After his career Veldkamp became a sports commentator for the NOS to analyze speed skating races.

BASICODE

The project was initiated in 1980 by Hobbyscoop, a radio program off the Netherlands broadcasting organisation Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS).

Ernst Jansen Steur

The Netherlands was shocked on 4 January 2013 when the NOS evening news led with the story that Jansen Steur had found another job as a neurologist in the Klinik am Gesundbrunnen hospital in Heilbronn.

Ton Hartsuiker

For many years he presented the program Musica Nova on Radio 4, the Dutch classical radio station, for broadcasting organization NOS.


Carolyn Lilipaly

High points in her time at NOS included the presentation of a special Journal about the arrest of Saddam Hussein.

Murth The Man-O-Script

During this period Murth was a VJ at TMF hosting The Pitch; his next job was presenting Paradisolife for NOS; a series of package-concerts made up of individual performances and special collaborations (for example, triphop-outfit Lamb teaming up with jazz-crossover group New Cool Collective).

Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

One hour into the transmission of the contest, Dutch broadcaster NOS took the decision to take the programme off the air in order to bring viewers live news updates from Enschede, where some hours earlier a huge explosion in a fireworks factory had devastated a section of the city and resulted in multiple fatalities and serious injuries.


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