{"id":40462,"date":"2019-11-05T07:04:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40462"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:04:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:04:32","slug":"the-netherlands-celebrates-100-years-of-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-netherlands-celebrates-100-years-of-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherlands celebrates 100 years of radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Radio-Dial-2-e1480988790507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22384\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Radio-Dial-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, G\u00e9rard Koopal, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Thomas, on November 6 it is exactly 100 years ago that Hans Idzerda transmitted the first radio broadcast in the Hague, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate this event, the VRZA has a special broadcast using the original Zeedijk studio from radio Veronica and historical NOS\/NRU studios. The broadcast is from 10.00 till 21.00 hours CET and there is an internet stream available.<\/p>\n<p>Also rebroadcasting through some lpam stations. For more information see this website (in Dutch):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandspalet.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.hollandspalet.nl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greetings, G\u00e9rard Koopal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this, G\u00e9rard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, G\u00e9rard Koopal, who writes: Dear Thomas, on November 6 it is exactly 100 years ago that Hans Idzerda transmitted the first radio broadcast in the Hague, the Netherlands. To commemorate this event, the VRZA has a special broadcast using the original Zeedijk studio from radio Veronica and historical NOS\/NRU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[8092,4660,4091,263],"class_list":["post-40462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-gerard-koopal","tag-netherlands","tag-radio-history","tag-radio-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-awC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66456,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/special-mediumwave-broadcast-of-de-vliegende-hollander-on-august-14-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":40462,"position":0},"title":"Special Mediumwave Broadcast of \u201cDe vliegende Hollander\u201d on August 14, 2026","author":"Thomas","date":"June 26, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, G\u00e9rard Koopal, who writes: Dear Thomas, Just to let you know that Radio \u201cDe vliegende Hollander\u201d will transmit on August 14th at 1800 UTC on 1467 kHz. from Roumoules in France with 500 kW. 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