BVN

BVN which is the abbreviation of Het beste van Vlaanderen en Nederland is a satellite and cable television channel – a joint venture by the public broadcasting companies from the Netherlands and the Flemish part of Belgium, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep and Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep; which aims to make Dutch and Flemish public-service television output in the Dutch language available to viewers around the world. From 1996 until 2012 also Radio Nederland Wereldomroep was involved as a founding partner, but that organisation has obtained another task from the Dutch government from 2013. The channel was started in 1996 as Zomer-TV, an operation aimed at making Dutch-language programming available to Dutch and Flemish holidaymakers abroad. All of its programming originally came from the Netherlands but this was later adapted, once the Flemish Region of Belgium began contributing both financially and with output from the schedules of VRT, to het Beste van Vlaanderen en Nederland: "the best of Flanders and the Netherlands".