Katholieke Radio Omroep

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Broadly Catholic in its spiritual outlook, KRO broadcast the bulk of its television output on the NPO 1 channel. KRO was also responsible for managing broadcasts made by the Catholic Church in the Netherlands in the airtime allocated to Script error: No such module "Lang".. KRO published the magazines Studio KRO Magazine and Mikro gids.

On 1 January 2014, it merged with Script error: No such module "Lang". (NCRV) to form KRO-NCRV.

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Programmes

Television

On television, KRO's "behind-the-news" show is Netwerk, which it produces in cooperation with Script error: No such module "Lang". and NCRV.

A popular show which KRO began in 2005 is Script error: No such module "Lang". (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

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

KRO also has its own children's strands, KRO Script error: No such module "Lang". ("KRO children's time") and Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Ten plus"), which it transmits during its scheduled slots on Nederland 1. KRO Script error: No such module "Lang". 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 Script error: No such module "Lang".'s "Video Juke Box" service.[1]

See also

Notes

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