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Radio station gives away chihuahua as prize
North Holland radio sation WildFM felt like giving a prize away that was not the usual fare: a chihuahua, a type of dog that became increasingly popular once American socialite Paris Hilton was seen...
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A whole hour of airplay to band that breaks the minute
The minute in which bands have to compress their latest hit if they want to appear on De Wereld Draait Door, the popular talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, has long been a nuisance to 3FM...
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Asparagus most popular vegetable among the Dutch, French beans second
Radio show Vroege Vogels (Early Birds) held a vegetable popularity contest during the Week of the Vegetarian restaurant which ran from October 3 through October 9. Perhaps surprisingly the top four...
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Being a radio bitch is not what you think
Dutch radio presenter Frederique de Jong of BNR (Business News Radio) has decided to refuse her nomination for this year’s ‘Radiobitch’ Award. The ‘RadioBitches Award’ (yes, all in Dunglish, I can’t...
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Dutch world radio service goes off the air
Some 65 years after it all started, Radio Netherlands Worldwide’s Dutch service will go off the air this week on Friday 11 May. To mark the shut down, it will feature a 24-hour live radio marathon...
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Northern radio stations to broadcast live ambulance sirens
If you’ve driving around the North of the country and listening to certain local radio stations, you will soon be able to hear ambulance sirens through the radio, a partial solution to people in their...
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Singer Gordon accused of manipulating Top 40 list
One of the authoritative hit parades of the country has accused artists such as Gordon and record companies of manipulating their positions by buying their own products, according to the chairman of...
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Dutch artists cover current pop hits, good or bad?
Radio station 100% NL broadcasts Dutch music sung in Dutch or from Dutch artists and has recently decided to expand its reach by commissioning Dutch-language versions of currently English-language pop...
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Dutch radio DJ nails Guinness world record
Started on Monday 12 May, 3FM radio DJ Giel Beelen has broken the world record for the longest, continuous radio show with 190 hours, breaking the older record of 189 set by Belgian radio DJ Lennart...
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Dutch spies thwarted by German windmills
German windmills are disrupting the proper spying on Dutch citizens by the Dutch military secret service MIVD, or so the latter complains. The Ministry of Defence has complained to the municipality of...
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Paris peace pianist plays in Amsterdam
Germany-based pianist Davide Martello who famously played John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ outdoors in Paris recently to comfort listeners travelled to Amsterdam and played next to the National Monument and...
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Vote for your favourite ugly public art
Photo by Peter Cox Dutch radio station 538 is asking their listeners to vote on the ‘Ugliest artwork of the Netherlands’. The nine nominees include a ‘pooping skater’ in Pijnacker, the awkward arch in...
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Radio pranks singer with streaker, artists outraged
On November 17 during a live radio show where young singer Maan de Steenwinkel was performing, the show’s male DJs thought it would be amusing to have a male streaker run through the studio. What...
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Dutch radio aboard Chinese space mission
Today, the Chinese space agency launched a relay satellite to an orbit behind the Moon with a Dutch radio antenna on board, the first Dutch-made scientific instrument to be sent on a Chinese space...
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Dutch radio temporarily bans Michael Jackson
After finding out about the documentary Leaving Neverland released a few days ago, a film that focuses on two men who claim they were sexually abused by singer Michael Jackson as children, NH radio...
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The Happy Hour, 24 Oranges goes on the air
About two years ago, we promised we would put out a video, and we really tried to do something, but besides great conversation, we didn’t get around to doing it the way we would have wanted to and we...
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Woman claims prize, a (now) antique radio, after 80 years
A woman from Rotterdam won the first prize in an 80-year old competition that she had forgotten to enter as a girl. In 1940 a then 11-year old Tjits Drenth solved a rebus of the Jamin candy chain...
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