BNN (Dutch broadcaster)

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BNN
Dissolved1 January 2014
Former names
Bart's News Network
Official website
bnn.nl
Replaced byBNNVARA

BNN or Bart's Neverending Network (formerly Bart's News Network, as a pun on

organ donors
in the Netherlands.

History

BNN became a public broadcasting association as a part of the

drugs, even BNN's programming has been considered controversial.[1]

Some of BNN's programs have included "Try Before You Die" – where presenters attempted to do things that they think people should do at least once in their life, made headlines when presenter

In May 2007, five years after the death of Bart de Graaff, who had suffered from kidney failure for almost all of his life, BNN announced "De Grote Donorshow" (The Big Donor Show), an initiative for promoting the filling in of a codicil for organ donation, in which three contestants would strive to be the recipient of a kidney donated by a terminally ill woman. The show aired on 1 June; at the end of the show it was revealed to be a hoax, attempting to draw attention to the low number of organ donors in the country.[3][4]

BNN merged with the

BNN-VARA
.

Notable television shows

Presenters

References

  1. Balkenende was afraid of De Grote Donorshow's negative effect on the country's image abroad. (See "Balkenende betreurt donorshow zeer" [Balkenende deeply regrets donor programme] (in Dutch). NU.nl
    . 1 June 2007. Retrieved 8 August 2009..)
  2. ^ "Wimbledon uncovered". BBC. 4 July 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  3. ^ Washington Post, June 1, 2007[dead link]
  4. ^ The Scotsman

External links

  • BNN – official website
  • BNN TV at the
    Internet Movie Database