PowNed is a Dutch broadcaster, which broadcasts radio and television programmes on the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system. They air a daily satirical news show during the workweek called PowNews

PowNews

PowNews is a Dutch television news show which is broadcast on Nederland 3 from Studio Plantage in Amsterdam on Monday to Friday evenings by the public broadcaster PowNed. The first broadcast was on 6 September 2010.PowNews is presented by Dominique Weesie...

 on Nederland 3

Nederland 3

Nederland 3 is the third and youngest of the terrestrial television channels operated by the Dutch public-broadcasting organization NPO in the Netherlands and carries programs provided by member-based non-profit broadcasting associations. It is oriented towards children, youth and innovative...

, which often exposes scandals, especially in politics

Politics of the Netherlands

The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy and a decentralised unitary state. The Netherlands is described as a consociational state...

.

The broadcaster is affiliated with and was started up with the help of the popular GeenStijl

GeenStijl.nl

GeenStijl.nl is a Dutch blog founded on April 10, 2003. The logos it uses on its website are a female silhouette using a chainsaw and a crown within a circle, both in a pinkish colour, although the crown in a circle is green with a black edge when it is embedded in online videos...

 shock blog.

The director of PowNed is Dominique Weesie

Dominique Weesie

Dominicus Jacobus Weesie is a Dutch journalist and founder of the weblog GeenStijl and the public broadcasting association PowNed.-Biography:...

 (who also presents PowNews) and their star reporter is Rutger Castricum

Rutger Castricum

Rutger Castricum is a Dutch journalist and presenter, who is known as reporter for the satirical PowNews television programme by the Dutch broadcaster PowNed and previously for the shock blog Geenstijl.- External links :...

. Other reporters include Jojanneke van den Berge

Jojanneke van den Berge

Jojanneke van den Berge is a Dutch journalist who works for the broadcasting association PowNed.-Background:Van den Berge studied Communication Science and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam.-Career:...

, Jan Roos

Jan Roos

Jan Roos is a Dutch journalist for the PowNed public broadcasting association. He makes reports for the daily PowNews news programme. He also makes the radio programme Echte Jannen for PowNed.He formerly was a reporter for BNR Nieuwsradio....

 (also presenter of the radio programme Echte Jannen with Jan Dijkgraaf) and Daan Nieber

Daan Nieber

Daan Nieber is a Dutch journalist for the PowNed public broadcasting association. He makes reports for the daily PowNews news programme.He formerly was a presenter of the shortlived Dutch version of CQC on Veronica....

. Several other people involved with PowNed programmes (radio and television) are DJ's Rob Stenders

Rob Stenders

Rob Stenders is a Dutch radio DJ.Stenders had a long lasting career in radio starting with local radio stations. Stenders followed up Edwin Evers in the 3FM morning show "Stenders Vroeg" for the public radio and television company "VARA"...

 and Bert van Lent, sports presenters Henk Spaan and Hugo Borst

Hugo Borst

Hugo Borst is a Dutch writer, editor, TV personality and critic .- Career :Borst finished school when he was 18, the so-called havo. Although he never played professional football, he became a journalistfor the magazine Voetbal International in 1985...

 (of the TV football programme Heilig Gras), Bas Paternotte

Bas Paternotte

Bas Paternotte is a Dutch political reporter for the magazine HP/De Tijd and the GeenStijl blog. and a political commentator on the PowNed radio programme Echte Jannen on Radio 1....

 (political commentator for Echte Jannen) and Brenno de Winter

Brenno de Winter

Brenno de Winter is a Dutch ITC journalist. He writes for Linux Magazine, Computer!Totaal, NU.nl and Webwereld and is a commenter for the PowNews programme on PowNed TV.-External links: , website NOS, 25 January 2011...

 (ITC commentator for PowNews).

Their name is derived from the internet slang

Internet slang

Internet slang is a type of slang that Internet users have popularized, and in many cases, have coined. Such terms often originate with the purpose of saving keystrokes. Many people use the same abbreviations in texting and instant messaging, and social networking websites...

 term powned

Pwn

Pwn is a leetspeak slang term derived from the verb own, as meaning to appropriate or to conquer to gain ownership. The term implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet-based video game culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated .In hacker...

 and is a backronym

Backronym

A backronym or bacronym is a phrase constructed purposely, such that an acronym can be formed to a specific desired word. Backronyms may be invented with serious or humorous intent, or may be a type of false or folk etymology....

 for Publieke Omroep Weldenkend Nederland En Dergelijke (English: Public broadcaster (for the) well-thinking Netherlands and the like). They claim to serve the network generation and argue heavily (in a tongue-in-cheek style) against babyboomers who they see as clinging on to power.

External links

Official website

• Outlandish TV station recommended to minister, RNW, September 30, 2009
• Jackass sues Dutch TV channel Powned, Dutch Daily News, June 5, 2011