Katholieke Radio Omroep

This article is about KRO, the Dutch broadcaster. For the Marvel Comics character, see Kro (comics).
KRO
Type Public broadcaster
Country Netherlands
Availability Netherlands
Founded 1925
Slogan Ter inspiratie (For inspiration)
Official website
www.kro.nl

KRO, or Katholieke Radio Omroep (Catholic Radio Broadcasting), is a Dutch public broadcasting organization founded on 23 April 1925. Broadly Catholic in its spiritual outlook, KRO broadcasts the bulk of its television output on the NPO 1 channel. KRO is also responsible for managing broadcasts made by the Catholic Church in the Netherlands in the airtime allocated to RKK. KRO publishes the magazines Studio KRO Magazine and Mikro gids.

Programmes

Television

On television, KRO's "behind-the-news" show is Netwerk, which it produces in cooperation with EO and NCRV.

A popular show which KRO began in 2005 is Boer zoekt vrouw (Farmer wants a wife), presented by Yvon Jaspers. Many Dutch farmers remain single because they find it hard to find a woman who is willing to put up with the long hours, hard work, and lack of holidays which farming life requires. This show, which aims to remedy that situation, was KRO's highest-rated television programme in 2008, achieving an average weekly viewership of 4.5 million.

Another KRO speciality is the broadcasting of detective series in the strand KRO Detectives, which mainly focuses on British and Scandinavian productions.

Youth output

The logo for KRO's children's programming on NPO 1

KRO also has its own children's strands, KRO Kindertijd ("KRO children's time") and Tien Plus ("Ten plus"), which it transmits during its scheduled slots on Nederland 1. KRO Kindertijd also has some programmes available live across the Netherlands via Omroep NL's digital service, Zappelin / Zapp 24. Some of this output can also be viewed outside the Netherlands via Kindertijd's "Video Juke Box" service.[1]

Notes

  1. KRO Kindertijd

External links

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