VPRO

The VPRO (originally an acronym for Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep, or "free-thinking protestant radio broadcasting company", but since long the acronym has been kept but its meaning dropped) was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization, linked to the protestant pillar. However, in the 1950s and 1960s it became more free-thinking than protestant. It was the first to show a naked woman on Dutch television, Phil Bloom in 1967 http://members.lycos.nl/poph/archief/bloomphil.htm.

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It is still the most radical group on Dutch television.

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It often collaborates with other broadcasting organisations such as the WDR, the BBC, and Arte.

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Like all Dutch public broadcasters the VPRO doesn't have its own channel. It shares the third Dutch public net.

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