Nederlandse Programma Stichting
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| Type | Public broadcasting |
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| Country |  Netherlands |
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| Owner | NPO |
| Website omroep.nl/nps |
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The Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS, 'Dutch Program Foundation') is a Dutch government-funded radio and TV broadcasting foundation. In the Dutch public TV systems (Publieke Omroep) broadcasters do not have their own stations but get allotted time on one of the three public stations, usually based on the amount of members. NPS, however, does not have any members. The NPS was created in 1995, after a separation of the NOS. NPS took over NOS's culture, information, minorities and youth programmes, NOS restricting itself on bringing the news.
In the summer of 2005, plans have been presented by the cabinet Balkenende II in power at the time, to renovate the broadcasting system. In the process, the NPS would be abolished by 2007. This was met with rather fierce resistance because the programmes they air have a dedicated (and fairly sizeable) group of viewers. The idea was that other stations would take over what NPS does, but there is little confidence among viewers that that will happen. There has been speculation that the reason for this cabinet, which consisted of Christian-Democrats and liberal conservatives, to abolish the NPS, was that the broadcasting foundation was too left-wing, in the eyes of the governing parties.
The plans for abolishing the NPS were cancelled after the elections in November 2006.
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