Veronica Applies For Legal Status
After 1974 some of Veronica's staff set up the VOO (a Dutch abbreviation for Veronica Broadcasting Organisation) in the hopes of applying for a broadcasting licence. After some bureaucratic obstruction, which one critic described as a mini-Watergate, the VOO was finally granted a licence and was invited to open the new Hilversum 4 radio network on December 28, 1975. Hilversum 4 was a classical music service, and the irony was not lost on Veronica, which began its first legal programme by "accidentally" playing a snatch of Beatles music at the start.
The VOO was part of the Dutch State broadcasting System since 1975, but in 1995 Veronica formed a joint-venture with CLT to the new Holland Media Groep and became an commercial independent broadcasting station in the Netherlands but ended in 2001 when she sold her shares, a year earlier, after it became known that the television station V8 renamed to the Veronica TV station then is back on 20 September 2003.
For further information see Veronica (television channel).
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