Arbeidsvitaminen
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Arbeidsvitaminen is a popular-music radio show produced by the Netherlands Public Broadcasting AVRO
for Radio 5
.
On 1 May 2006 the programme received a Guinness Book of World Records award for being the longest-lived nationally broadcast radio show in history – the first edition of Arbeidsvitaminen having been broadcast on 19 February 1946. This status is debatable, however, since a number of other radio programmes in, most notably Norway
and the United Kingdom
, have been on the air since the 1920s.
Avro
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for Radio 5
Radio 5 (Netherlands)
Radio 5 is a Dutch public-service network radio station operated by NPO. On weekdays between 06:00 and 19:00 it aims to broadcast an accessible mix of easy listening music, short interviews, and listener participation , together with brief news summaries and other public information items, to a...
.
On 1 May 2006 the programme received a Guinness Book of World Records award for being the longest-lived nationally broadcast radio show in history – the first edition of Arbeidsvitaminen having been broadcast on 19 February 1946. This status is debatable, however, since a number of other radio programmes in, most notably Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, have been on the air since the 1920s.