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Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep & Radio Netherlands Training Centre

Radio Netherlands is a public-service multimedia production and training organisation and has its own distribution network of satellite and short-wave transmitters. RN acts as a knowledge broker, sharing global and regional issues with the rest of the world, with daily productions in English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Papiamento, Indonesian and Dutch. It also covers regional developments in areas of the world without free media. To understand the widely differing information needs of the audience, Radio Netherlands continually examines the media landscape of their targets, looking for ways to complement what is already there. The production centre currently works with around 5,500 partners worldwide (including all the music and speech programming), mostly radio and TV organisations.

Education is an important part of Radio Netherlands’ mission. In 1968, the Radio Netherlands Training Centre began offering courses in radio and television production for young professionals from developing countries. Funded by the Netherlands Ministry for Development Cooperation, the courses aim to improve the informative and educational use of the media in developing countries. RNTC activities are increasingly focused on specific media education. Examples are the “Training the Trainers” and “Current Affairs Editorial” courses. All these courses are designed for professionals from developing countries who have some previous broadcasting experience.

P.O. Box 222, 1200 JG Hilversum

The Netherlands

Tel +31 35 672 4211, Fax +31 35 672 4252

www.rnw.nl / www.rntc.nl/rntc

Contacts

Jonathan Marks, Creative Director (co-production enquiries)

Lem van Eupen, Manager RNTC (training enquiries)

Budget

> $1.000.000

Number of staff

350 (total)

Publications

daily newsletters in four languages

news and feature services to partner stations

Semi-annual programme schedules

Programmes RNTC

International Course Broadcast Journalism (Radio and Television)

International Course Internet for Journalists

International Course Educational Programme Production (Radio/Internet and Television/Internet)

Programmes RNW

50 productions per day