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6 unusual facts about VPRO


1926 in radio

29 May: VPRO (the Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep) is established in the Netherlands.

Cameron Deas

He has also appeared twice on Amsterdam's VPRO radio for sessions and interviews as well as radio sessions in Portugal and Denmark.

Gied Jaspars

Gied Jaspars (6 July 1940 – 14 February 1996) was a Dutch television maker who gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s making progressive and controversial TV shows for the VPRO; he is well known for his collaboration with writer and director Wim T. Schippers.

Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator

Molotov Alva was commissioned in 2006 by VPRO, a Dutch television broadcaster, and by Submarine, a Dutch television and internet production company.

Van Kooten en De Bie

The two cooperated for years, before they started to work for the public broadcasting organization VPRO, where they first performed for radio broadcasting, and later took to making shows for television.

Vpro

Intel vPro, a set of features built into a PC's motherboard and other hardware


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Centrino

Laptops with Intel vPro technology have hardware features that allow a system administrator to remotely access wired and wireless laptops for maintenance and servicing if the operating system is unresponsive or crashed and, when a laptop is connected to AC power (not on battery power), allow a sys-admin to remotely access the laptop when the system is asleep or laptop power is off.

Harmke Pijpers

Harmke Pijpers began her broadcasting career as "secretary with ambition" at the VARA but she became known for the VPRO radio program The Building.

Nederland 3

Nederland 3 became the home channel of the broadcasters VPRO, VARA, RVU, and NPS, all of which share a progressive outlook.

Panama Canal Zone

Documentary filmmaker Theo Uittenbogaard made a film about the Panama Canal zone, entitled 'The Treaty', which was released and aired on the Dutch national TV-channel VPRO in the series 'Macchiavelli' in 1976.

Renée Scheltema

Thereafter she became a freelance documentary filmmaker, working mainly for Dutch TV stations, like the NOS, NCRV, AVRO, Human TV, TROS, Veronica, IKON, VPRO, and the BOS, Buddhist Broadcasting Station.

Stace England

Greetings From Cairo, Illinois was the subject of a radio documentary on VPRO Dutch National Broadcasting produced by the musicologist and author Jan Donkers, and featured a vocal performance by alternative country musician Jason Ringenberg of Jason & the Scorchers.


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