WNL
Omroep WNL is a Dutch public broadcasting association founded in 2009 with roots in the foundation behind the newspaper De Telegraaf. It explicitly aims to serve right-of-centre audiences within the pluralistic Dutch public system, producing news and current-affairs programmes such as Goedemorgen Nederland on NPO 1 alongside reporting and opinion on its website.
WNL at a glance
- Country
- Netherlands
- Region
- Western Europe · Europe
- Kind of outlet
- Public broadcaster
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Website
- wnl.tv ↗
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How Crosswire groups WNL
Crosswire groups WNL as Right-leaning for comparisons within the Netherlands' directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the Netherlands, NRC and De Groene Amsterdammer are listed as Left-leaning, while NOS and Financieele Dagblad are listed as Centrist — so you can open WNL beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where WNL sits in the Netherlands' press
WNL is one of 5 outlets tracked in the Netherlands, and one of 2 public broadcasters among them — the other being NOS. By outlets tracked, the Netherlands ranks 29th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to WNL outside the Netherlands, starting with Western Europe, are ORF (Austria), SRF (Switzerland), RTL Today (Luxembourg) and BBC News (United Kingdom). Opening one of them beside WNL is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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