NPO Politiek en Nieuws is a public television channel operated by the public broadcaster
NOS, which supplies news and sports to all national public television and radio networks. Programmes come live from The Hague when the
parliament
In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...
is in session. When the parliament was not in session the ''NPO Politiek en Nieuws'' channel became ''
NPO Sport
NPO Sport (formerly Sport24) was a Dutch sports channel owned by the Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) and operated by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS). It launched on 19 July 2009 and time-shared with NPO Politiek en Nieuws when the legislatur ...
'', broadcasting sporting events or news and current affairs, supplied by the NOS. On 15 December 2021,
NPO Nieuws
NPO Nieuws was a 24-hour news channel operated by the NOS, the public broadcaster which supplies news and sports to all national public television and radio networks. NOS also provides programming for the political channel, NPO Politiek.
NPO Nie ...
merged with NPO Politiek to make the present name of this channel. Before 10 March 2014 the channel was called Politiek 24.
NPO Sport
Especially in the summer months, the channel reported on sporting events which were not fully shown on the open channels of the NPO. These competitions included the World Cup/European Athletics Championships, World Cup/European Swimming Championships, World Equestrian Games, World Championships and
Vuelta a España
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.
References
External links
Official Website ''NPO Politiek en Nieuws''
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Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels and stations established in 2006