BNNVARA
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| Public company | |
| Industry | Broadcast media |
| Predecessors | BNN, VARA |
| Founded | January 1, 2014 |
| Headquarters | Hilversum, Netherlands |
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Netherlands |
| Website | bnnvara |
BNNVARA is a Dutch broadcasting association founded on 1 January 2014. Its membership consists of the BNN (founded 1997) and VARA (founded 1925) associations, which continue to exist but no longer broadcast directly. BNNVARA currently enjoys A-status as a leading broadcaster within the Dutch public-broadcasting system.
In 2011 VARA and BNN announced that they would merge. On November 6th 2011 the members of VARA voted for the merger, after the member council of BNN had already done so a week earlier. BNN and VARA announced on February 8th 2012 that the decision to merge was definite.
Marc Adriani is the General Manager of the new association, he was General Manager at BNN before this. The Media Manager is Frans Klein, who held the same role at VARA.
After the merge BNN and VARA kept using their separate branding, but on August 24th 2017 it was announced that as a new broadcaster, BNN-VARA will start to show programs though VARA and for radio later the following morning on August 28th.
Controversy arose when the documentary Jesse, about leader of the GroenLinks party Jesse Klaver, was aired by BNN-VARA. The documentary was seen as too biased towards Klaver, fuelling accusations that BNN-VARA lacked journalistic integrity.
After 62 years ago these Omroepers was Success between VOO and VARA, Including Omroepers from Veronica (currently RTL7)
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