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2013 In Belgian Television
This is a list of Belgian television related events from 2013. Events *11 January - Figure skater Kevin van der Perren and his partner Charissa van Dipte win the fifth and final season of ''Sterren op de Dansvloer''. *3 May - Paulien Mathues wins the second season of '' The Voice van Vlaanderen''. *21 December - 34-year-old singer Michael Lanzo wins the second season of ''Belgium's Got Talent''. Debuts Television shows 1990s *''Samson en Gert'' (1990–present) *'' Familie'' (1991–present) *'' Thuis'' (1995–present) 2000s *'' Mega Mindy'' (2006–present) 2010s *'' ROX'' (2011–present) *'' The Voice van Vlaanderen'' (2011–present) *''Belgium's Got Talent'' (2012–present) *'' Let's Get Fit'' (2013) Ending this year *''Sterren op de Dansvloer'' (2006–2013) Births Deaths See also *2013 in Belgium Events in the year 2013 in Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II (until 21 July); Philippe (from 21 July) *Prime Minister: Elio Di Rupo Events *January 1: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Television
Television in Belgium was introduced in 1953 and began with one channel each in Dutch and French. The country is heavily cabled, with 93% of households watching television through cable as of 2003. History The three Belgian Communities – Dutch, French and German-speaking – have legal responsibility for audiovisual communication. They constitute separate markets, the common feature of which is the fact that they have been extensively cabled for three decades and are thus able to receive neighbouring countries' channels. Until 1978, Radio-Television Belgium ( nl, Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep; french: Radio-Télévision Belge) was Belgium's national public television broadcaster. When broadcasting was devolved to the language communities in 1977, the old organization split into three separate organisations now known as VRT, RTBF and BRF respectively. VRT and RTBF share broadcasting facilities in Brussels, while BRF operates from Eupen. Channels Native channels There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Van Der Perren
Kevin van der Perren (born 6 August 1982) is a Belgian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2007 & 2009 European bronze medalist, a three-time Grand Prix medalist, and an eight-time (2000–2004, 2007, 2011, 2012) Belgian national champion. Van der Perren was the flagbearer for Belgium at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Personal life Kevin van der Perren was born on 6 August 1982 in Ninove, Belgium. He married British skater Jenna McCorkell on 17 May 2008. The couple lives in Coleraine, Northern Ireland and have a son named Ben, born in 2019. Career Van der Perren became interested in figure skating after a traveling ice show came to his town to perform. Although his parents wanted him to play soccer and he was teased by his classmates at school, he refused to give up his dream of being an elite figure skater. 2001–02 to 2004–05 Making his first Olympic appearance, van der Perren finished 12th at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voice Van Vlaanderen (season 2)
'' The Voice van Vlaanderen'' is a Belgian reality talent show. The second season of the Flemish version premiered on January 18, 2013 on the vtm television network. The coaches for this season were Natalia Druyts, one of the most popular recording artists of Flanders and close runner-up of the first season of '' Idool''; Koen Wauters, host and judge of several casting shows and band member of Clouseau Inspector Jacques Clouseau (), later granted the rank of Chief Inspector, is a fictional character in Blake Edwards' farcical '' The Pink Panther'' series. He is portrayed by Peter Sellers in the original series, and also by Alan Arkin in ...; Jasper Steverlinck, who was topping the Flemish single charts with a cover of " Life on Mars"; and Alex Callier from Flemish band Hooverphonic. The winner of the second season was Paulien Mathues. Because she belonged to Jasper Steverlink's team, Steverlink became the winning coach of ''The Voice'' for the second time. Contestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voice Van Vlaanderen
''The Voice van Vlaanderen'' (; English-Dutch for ''The Voice of Flanders'') is a Belgian reality singing competition for the Flemish part of Belgium. It is part of the franchise that started in the Netherlands as ''The Voice of Holland''. It kicked off on November 25, 2011 on VTM, shortly before the francophone Belgian variant ''The Voice Belgique'' went on air. As of 2022, the show has aired for eight seasons. One of the important premises of the show is the quality of the singing talent. Four coaches, themselves popular performing artists, train the talents in their group and occasionally perform with them. Talents are selected in blind auditions, where the coaches cannot see, but only hear the auditioner. The success of ''The Voice van Vlaanderen'' has led to the establishments of spin-off shows based on its concept, ''The Voice Kids'' and '' The Voice Senior''. Format The series consists of three phases: a blind audition, a battle phase, and live performance shows. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samson En Gert (TV Series)
''Samson & Gert'' is a Flemish children's television series produced by Eline van Noppen, centered on the talking dog Samson and his owner Gert. In its entire run, the show was originally aired on TV1 from Christmas Day 1989 until 1 December 1997, where it moved to Ketnet and continues airing all of its episodes to this day. History Originally Gert Verhulst was a continuity announcer. He wanted to make the announcements before children's television programmes more appealing by having an animal puppet next to him. He got in touch with puppeteer Danny Verbiest, who created the puppet dog Samson. Samson, a Bearded Collie, made his screen debut in the Christmas period of 1989. The pair's popularity grew very rapidly in Flanders and they were given their own television series in 1990. The show, named ''Samson'', premiered on 2 September 1990. During the show, Samson and Gert and their friends would encounter many funny and chaotic situations. The plot would be interrupted for cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Familie
''Familie'' (Dutch for Family) is a Flemish television soap opera set in Mechelen. Created by Herman Verbaet, ''Familie'' was first broadcast on 30 December 1991. It has been broadcast consistently for 5-6 evenings per week, with only 2-3 month hiatuses during summer Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, wit .... It is currently being produced by Banijay Belgium and running on VTM. Premise Pierre Van den Bossche and Anna Dierckx have raised three children. Their oldest son Guido is a bright student, eager to become a business mogul. His younger brother Jan and sister Rita are less gifted and often feel pushed back, but are nevertheless proud of their sibling. Once the children are starting their own family lives, shocking news arrives: Anna is pregnant again and Pierre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thuis
''Thuis'' ( en, At Home) is a Belgian television soap opera, which airs on één, which is in the hands of VRT, the national broadcasting channel of the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, Flanders. ''Thuis'' first aired on 23 December 1995, featuring Pol Goossen, , , , , , Rik Andries and the late . ''Thuis'' grew to become Flanders' number one soap, gaining 900,000 viewers (compared to the highest rated TV show, receives 1.5 million viewers), and therefore beating competing for channel vtm's soap operas ''Familie'' ( en, Family) and former series ''Wittekerke'' ( en, White Church, a fictional town). ''Thuis'' is currently in its 26st season, and has aired 5,000 episodes as of 16 April 2021. Plot Season 11 Following a long period of doubt, Robert Swerts is discovered to be the serial killer and rapist and is arrested. Renzo Fierens is arrested for drug dealing. Dr. Geert Smeekens replaces Michael Bastiaens in the doctor's office alongside Ann De Decker. Jenny Verbee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega Mindy
''Mega Mindy'' is a Flemish children's television series with a supernatural/superhero drama theme. The series was created by Studio 100 and airs on the Flemish TV channel Ketnet. It centers around a young woman, Mieke, (Free Souffriau), who lives with her grandparents and works as a police officer but also has a secret identity as superhero Mega Mindy. She tries to keep it a secret, but falls in love with Toby (Louis Talpe) who also works at the police. He is in love with Mega Mindy and does not know that Mieke secretly likes him and is actually Mega Mindy. She tries to find a way to balance between work and being a superhero, but it is not always easy. Every episode has a new mystery that Mieke has to solve and one or more bad guys whom Mega Mindy takes down. Mieke's not-so-smart boss always tries to solve the case, but Mega Mindy usually ends up with the solution, which he does not appreciate. He does manage to claim responsibility for capturing a bad guy on several occasions b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ROX (Flemish TV Series)
Rox or ROX may refer to: * ''Rox'' (album), an album by California punk band Supernova * Rox (singer), London-based singer * ''Rox'' (American TV series) * ''ROX'' (Belgian TV series) * Rox, Nevada, a ghost town * Roxithromycin, sold under the trade name ROX * ROX Desktop, a Unix desktop environment based on the ROX-Filer file manager * Rox Jewellers (retailer), in the United Kingdom * Brockton Rox, a minor league baseball team in Brockton, Massachusetts * St. Cloud Rox (minor league baseball), a team in St. Cloud, Minnesota, that played from 1946 to 1971 * St. Cloud Rox (collegiate summer baseball), a team in St. Cloud, Minnesota, since 1997 * The Rox, a renamed Ellis Island in the ''Wild Cards'' book series * "Rox", a song by Scottish band The Aliens from the album ''Astronomy for Dogs'' * The Rox, a nickname for the Colorado Rockies * The Rox, a nickname for the Houston Rockets * Rox, a model of bicycle computer made by Sigma Sport * Rox, the currency in the children's online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Transformation
Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. OT was originally invented for consistency maintenance and concurrency control in collaborative editing of plain text documents. Its capabilities have been extended and its applications expanded to include group undo, locking, conflict resolution, operation notification and compression, group-awareness, HTML/XML and tree-structured document editing, collaborative office productivity tools, application-sharing, and collaborative computer-aided media design tools. In 2009 OT was adopted as a core technique behind the collaboration features in Apache Wave and Google Docs. History Operational Transformation was pioneered by C. Ellis and S. Gibbs in the GROVE (GRoup Outline Viewing Edit) system in 1989. Several years later, some correctness issues were identified and several approaches were independently proposed to solve these issues, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Belgium
Events in the year 2013 in Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II (until 21 July); Philippe (from 21 July) *Prime Minister: Elio Di Rupo Events *January 1: Bart De Wever (New Flemish Alliance) becomes mayor of Antwerp. *January 6: Noémie Happart crowned Miss Belgium 2013. *January 13: Following accusations of tax evasion, Belgium's Dowager Queen Fabiola of Belgium has her annual allowance cut by over 400,000 pounds. *February 9: Five people killed in a plane crash at Charleroi airport. The airport was closed shortly after the crash. *February 21: 30,000 angry workers take to the streets of Brussels to demonstrate against government austerity plans. *May 4: During a railway accident in Wetteren several tank cars filled with acrylonitrile explode. *May 19: Anderlecht draw against Zulte Waregem to win the Jupiler Pro League. *May 21: Soccer club Beerschot AC declared bankrupt by the Court of Commerce. *May 30: Pope Francis accepts the resignation of Aloys Jousten as bish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
