NPO wants “a kind of BBC ‘without broadcasters – Parool.nl

23-04-15 12:43 pm – Source: Het Parool

Broadcasters get less and less to say, according to the new plans of the NPO governance. Earlier it was announced that State Secretary Dekker pure entertainment will remove them from the public broadcasters. © Anne Timmer

The Dutch Public Broadcasting (NPO) is attracting more and more power to itself . At the expense of public service broadcasters as Avro bunch, EO and KRO NCRV. The Volkskrant reports based on a concept of the Policy 2016-2020, to be released in June

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It is ridiculous that a media company can not put a video on his own site. That kind of rules they have also only in China or North Korea

Jan Slagter, chairman broadcaster Max

This shows that government organization NPO “a kind of BBC” should be. The public broadcasters have much less say, may little more on the Internet and should soon also share their budgets and reserves with the NPO. External agencies have finally access to the public network.

Jan Slagter, chairman of Max Broadcasting, said in response that the plans are already known. “The NPO does a power grab and put broadcasters offside. This is sort of an order without broadcasters. ”

The draft policy is largely in the future that Secretary Sander Dekker in October did all revealed. Then the State all that many administrative tasks had to be transferred from the broadcasting bosses to the NPO. Of NPO governance Dekker not only follows in its desire to remove the pure entertainment of the public broadcaster.

Netflix and HBO
of the NPO The Board encourages the centralization needed “a significant role” to continue to play in the media landscape. As NPO looks with anxiety to emerging VOD services like Netflix and HBO.

The plans of the NPO already encountered a lot of resistance, not only from the broadcasters, but also from internet experts who put big question the digital strategy of the NPO. Slagter: “It is ridiculous that a media company can not put a video on his own site. That kind of rules they have also only in China or North Korea. ”

The broadcasters are working to put their responses on paper. They have until mid-May for the time, says VPRO director Lennart van der Meulen, also chairman of the board of broadcasters. “We can not respond to the content.

(By: Vincent Smits)