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30 years, VTM in 30 fun facts

TV The holidays are not over yet at VTM. On February 1, blows the commercial channel 30 candles and that is with the necessary bells and whistles put in the pai

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30 years, VTM in 30 fun facts
TV The holidays are not over yet at VTM. On February 1, blows the commercial channel 30 candles and that is with the necessary bells and whistles put in the paint. We count four weeks long. 1. The castle of Peutie

The plans for Flanders ' first commercial broadcasting were in the greatest of secrecy forged in the castle of Peutie. Tijdschriftenuitgever Jan Merckx was at the crib, together with founding fathers Mike Verdrengh and Guido Depraetere. In the building at the Medialaan, where VTM is now houses, the covered central street is still named Jan Merckx.

2. First, the test pattern

just a month before the actual start of the transmitter appeared in the first test of the VTM on the cable, on new year's day 1989.

3. Festive openingsgala

The openingsgala on Wednesday, 1 February 1989, was presented by Miss Belgium 1987 Lynn Wesenbeek and former tennisprof Marlène de Wouters d’Oplinter. During the first VTM-evening got curious viewers after the gala also have the ‘VTM News’ presented an episode of the American series ‘Hunter’.

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