This is a unique development in the history of public broadcasting in the Netherlands. A major step in that direction has been taken with the concentration of children's programmes on a single channel. At present the programmes for children up to 12 years on public television are spread across three channels. On weekdays at ten o'clock in the morning on TV2 there is the popular BBC series Teletubbies and in the afternoon on the same channel a block of children's programmes from four until five o'clock. There are children's programmes every day between five and six on Nederland 1, followed by a block from six until seven on Nederland 3 including the Dutch version of Sesame Street and Het Jeugdjournaal, the news bulletin for young people.
Children have to zap from one channel to another on public television to get what they want.
The commercial stations aimed mainly at children have profited no end from this fragmented programming on the public channels. The Dutch commercial station KinderNet is only on the air in the mornings from seven to eleven. For more than ten years KinderNet has broadcast exclusively children's programmes produced by Dutch and foreign public broadcasters. For this reason the station is sometime regarded as being part of public broadcasting. The foreign programmes are usually dubbed.