RTV Noord-Holland. A small television channel known here in the Netherlands, it only shows news and items about the district North-Holland and almost nobody at school (School of Journalism Utrecht) knows it. But yesterday, our ‘beloved’ (notice the air quotes and the sarcasm) teacher decided that we had to visit it, and make an item about it. The other group was send tot De Wereld Draait Door (The World Keeps Turning or something like that), a much bigger channel with much more viewers. We were jealous as hell.
Today, we visited the channel. With two camera’s, a microphone and fifteen students who were sick of travelling. The headquarters of the station is in Amsterdam, and only one person in the group actually lives in the capital of the Netherlands. I do, the rest of the group, fourteen persons, live spread over our (very) small country. I already needed more than half an hour to get there, the rest needed more than one and a half hour.
Even with our bad humour because of the cold and the travelling, we wanted to have a fresh start. So we attacked the coffee machine (poor coffee machine, it didn’t stand a chance). After we got awake and warmed up a little, we got the tour around the building and were able to ask questions while armed with camera’s and coffee. And actually, it was kind of fun. The atmosphere around the people working there is very comfortable and easy going, even when they had to get a program done in a couple of hours, which is nothing when making television programs.
I think there is a chance we had more fun than the people who got to go to DWDD, just because I know that such a big program is way more stressful and hectic. Now I’ve been to RTV Noord-Holland and had such a fun day, I don’t mind that I didn’t go to a ‘big’ program. And...I did learn something while not on school. Damn, even today wasn’t a day off for my brains...
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