- published: 21 Jul 2015
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BVN which is the abbreviation of Het beste van Vlaanderen en Nederland (The best of Flanders and the Netherlands) is a satellite and cable television channel – a joint venture by Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW), the Flemish and Dutch public broadcasting organizations Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT) and Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (NPO) – which aims to make Dutch and Flemish public-service television output in the Dutch language available to viewers around the world.
The channel was started in 1996 as Zomer-TV (Summer-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 (the abbreviation BVN at first standing for het Beste Van Nederland, "the best of 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".