AVRO Studios

Coordinates: 52°13′40″N 5°10′04″E / 52.22786134°N 5.167861908°E / 52.22786134; 5.167861908
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AVRO Studios
AVRO Studio complex in September 2015
Map
General information
Town or cityHilversum
CountryNetherlands
Coordinates52°13′40″N 5°10′04″E / 52.22786134°N 5.167861908°E / 52.22786134; 5.167861908
InauguratedJuly 1936; 87 years ago (1936-07)
References
Dutch Rijksmonument 522700

Dutch Rijksmonument 522701

AVRO Studios is a building complex and national heritage site in Hilversum, where the radio and TV studios and the head office of the Dutch public broadcasting association AVRO (Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep or "General Association of Radio Broadcasting") were located until 2000. The buildings have since been used by other companies for different purposes.

History

Entrance to Studio 2 of the former AVRO Studios complex in 2013

The studios were built between 1934 and 1940 according to plans by the architects

underground tunnel. The last extension of the studies was carried out from 1968 to 1972 with the so-called TV-Flat and was converted into a medical center which opened in November 2012.[2]

Following the sale by AVRO in 2004, the television production company Blue Circle (the Dutch subsidiary of the media company

FremantleMedia) resided in Studio 2 before moving to Amsterdam.[3] In 2000, AVRO, KRO and NCRV moved into new premises, the AKN [nl] building.[4]

In July 2002, the two studio complexes were registered as

miniature city of Madurodam in The Hague
.

Concert organ

Pierre Palla Concert Organ in 2020

Studio 1 housed the original

theater organs in the Netherlands, was removed in 2004 after the studios were sold and was put into storage in Utrecht for the next 15 years. It was renamed in tribute after the organist in 2013 when restoration work began in 's-Hertogenbosch.[8] It was rebuilt in 2019 and found a new home in Studio 1 of the Muziekcentrum voor de Omroep [nl] (Broadcasting Music Centre; NMBC), the former VARA studios, where a place had already been made available from the start for the Radio Concert Organ that had been bought from the BBC, which was never installed there.[9]

After many setbacks, the AVRO Concert Organ was finally taken into use in December 2019 under the new name 'Pierre Palla Concert Organ'.[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "-". www.tgooi.info.
  2. ^ "Hilversum - AVRO TV-flat". www.tgooi.info.
  3. ^ "Blue Circle verhuist naar Amsterdam - BM". January 16, 2018.
  4. ^ "AKN-Gebouw | Architectuurgids". Architectuur.ORG.
  5. ^ "522700 's-Gravelandseweg 52 1217 ET te Hilversum". Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. December 7, 2017.
  6. ^ "522701 's-Gravelandseweg 50 1217 ET te Hilversum". Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. December 7, 2017.
  7. ^ Concertorgel, Pierre Palla (May 27, 2020). "De AVRO-tijd | Pierre Palla Concertorgel". www.pierrepallaconcertorgel.nl.
  8. ^ "Voormalig AVRO-orgel na 15 jaar terug in Hilversum". AVROTROS.nl. July 26, 2019.
  9. ^ "De bijzondere geschiedenis van het Pierre Palla Concertorgel". AVROTROS.nl. December 1, 2019.
  10. ^ "Dutch Radio pulls out all the stops for inauguration of rebuilt organ". www.ebu.ch. December 10, 2019.

External links

Media related to AVRO Studio, Hilversum at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Eurovision Song Contest
Venue
1958 		Succeeded by
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