I am looking for a research in ENGLISH, that details the players in
the Dutch MEDIA market - TV, Radio, Print. It should include companies
description, leading managers, holdings, owners, share of market etc’.

The research must not be more than 2 years old. 
The research should focus on the players themselves, and not on
statistics!

Hello Sharonshani,

For a short overview on the Dutch media market, let me quote the
following page:

BBC News - Country profile: The Netherlands
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1043423.stm

"The Dutch public broadcasting system is unique. Programmes are made
by a variety of groups, some reflecting political or religious
currents in society, others representing interest groups. These
organisations are allocated airtime on TV and radio, in line with the
number of members they have.

Public radio and TV channels face stiff competition from commercial
stations, which mushroomed after a 1988 law lifted the ban on
commercial broadcasting.

The Dutch TV market is very competitive. Viewers have access to a wide
range of domestic and foreign channels, thanks mainly to one of the
highest cable take-up rates in Europe. Every province has at least one
local public TV channel.
(...)

Newspaper ownership is highly concentrated. Most titles are
broadsheets; Dutch readers have not developed a taste for tabloid
sensationalism.

The press 
Algemeen Dagblad NRC Handelsblad De Telegraaf De Volkskrant Trouw 

Television 
NOS - oversees the country's three national public networks BVN TV -
external TV service for Dutch-speakers abroad RTL - commercial,
operates RTL4 and RTL5 channels SBS - commercial, operates SBS6, Net5
and V8 channels Veronica - commercial

Radio 
NOS - oversees public radio stations, including news and information
station Radio 1, music network Radio 2, pop station 3FM, cultural
station Radio 4 Radio Netherlands - international broadcaster,
programmes in a number of languages including English Sky Radio -
popular commercial FM station, non-stop music Radio 538 - popular
commercial FM station, pop and dance music"


For a more extensive list, I went to the EMS (European Media &
Marketing Survey) web site. Following is a selection what's available
on the page:

EMS - Netherlands
http://www.interview-nss.com/ems/survey_printTV19.html

"INTERNATIONAL TV CHANNELS 
BBC Prime
BBC World
Bloomberg TV
CNBC
CNN International
Deutsche Welle
Discovery
EuroNews
Eurosport
Fashion TV
MTV Europe
National Geographic Channel
Sky News 
TCM (Turner Classic Movies)
Travel Channel
TV5
 
REGIONAL OVERLAP TV CHANNELS 
ARD
Arte
BBC 1
BBC 2
TV 1 (BEL)
TV 2 Ketnet/Canvas (BEL)
ZDF
 
NATIONAL TV CHANNELS 
Canal+ Rood
Canal+ Blauw
Ned 1
Ned 2
Ned 3
Net 5
RTL 4
RTL 5
SBS 6
TMF (The Music Factory)
Yorin
 
INTERNATIONAL DAILY NEWSPAPERS 
Financial Times
International Herald Tribune
USA Today
Wall Street Journal Europe
 
INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY/FORTN. MAGAZINES 
BusinessWeek
The Economist
Fortune
Newsweek
TIME
Forbes Magazine
 
(...)
 
NATIONAL DAILY NEWSPAPERS 
Algemeen Dagblad
Het Financieele Dagblad
NRC Handelsblad
Het Parool
Nederlandse Staatscourant
De Telegraaf
Trouw
De Volkskrant
Een regionaal dagblad
 
NATIONAL WEEKLY NEWSPAP./MAGAZINES 
Beleggers Belangen
Elsevier
FEM De Week
HP/De Tijd
Intermediair
Management Team
Vrij Nederland

(...)" 


I assembled the following research papers for you:

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European Media Ownership - The Netherlands (by the International
Federation of Journalists)
http://www.ifj.org/publications/download/mediaownership/netherlands.html

Contents:
- Overview
- Terrestrial TV and Radio
- Cable, Satellite and Multimedia
- Newspapers and Magazines
- Transnational Groups
- Main Players

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The following detailed report includes recent data:

Dutch Media (by Dr. Piet Bakker, University of Amsterdam) [PDF]
http://users.fmg.uva.nl/pbakker/werk/dutchmedia.pdf

"What is so special or different about the media in the Netherlands?
First we look at what we don't have:
 * We have no Sunday papers like in the UK, Germany, Italy, Franceetc.
 * We have no party press anymore, a lot of European countries(Italy,
Scandinavia) still have a party press. (...)
 * We have no sports papers like in France, Spain or Italy (...)
 * We have no tabloid press like in the UK (the Sun) or Germany (Bild
Zeitung).
 * We have no media-tycoons unlike in the UK, France, Italy or
Germany.
 * We have no national government owned television or radio station.
 * We don't have a telecommunication monopoly anymore.

What do we have instead of this all?
 * We do have high readership of newspapers and magazine (...)
 * We do have very concentrated print media , only three publisher sof
newspapers control 90% of the circulation.
 * We do have succesfull free daily newspapers.
 * We do have many tv- and radio stations, national, regional and
local.
 * We do have a very high rate of cable-penetration , probably one
ofthe highest in Europe.
 * We do have merging telecom, television and cable services"

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Television channels in the Netherlands
http://www.obs.coe.int/db/persky/nl.html

Contents:
- Broadcasting regulatory authority
- National channels with analog terrestrial licence
-  - Public service 
-  -  - General public service broadcasting organisations
-  -  - Religious broadcasting associations
-  -  - Other broadcasting associations
-  - Private 
- Television channels packagers
-  - Satellites packagers
-  - Main cable operators
(...)

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If you are willing to pay money for reports, see the following list of
reports:

Netherlands Cable & Satellite Television 2002
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/9429/9429.html

Netherlands Television 2002
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/9431/9431.html

Contents:

- Market size
- Market segmentation
- Market shares and web-links
- Distribution
- Socio-economic data
- Forecasts
- Further sources, including trade associations

The price is US$ 224 each.

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Here is a short article with illustration:

Media expenditures Dutch telecom advertisers (2002)
http://www.telecom.paper.nl/bbc/bbc.htm

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And this Adobe Acrobat Reader document:

Magazine Publishing - A Quiet Life? The Dutch Market for Consumer
Magazines (by Jacco Hakfoort and Jürgen Weigand) [PDF]
http://www.cpb.nl/nl/pub/werkdoc/120/wd120.pdf

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Hope this helps!


Further references:

These are in German, so I exclude them from above resources, but list
them here in case it's of additional use:

Bibliography: History of Televsion
http://histv4.free.fr/biblio/bibliographie09NL.htm

The only recent entry:
- Der Rundfunk in den Niederlanden [German for: Radio in Netherlands]
(by Van Reenen)
This handbook covers in two volumes the years 1998-1999, and 2000-2001


About the Dutch media market [PDF]
http://www.ned.univie.ac.at/publicaties/broschueren/rundfunk.pdf


Search terms:
netherlands tv radio print market
dutch tv radio print market
media market print radio tv site:.nl
"key players" media radio print tv "netherlands OR dutch"
(...)

It was basicly OK, but I needed much more info as I said in my question.
In case more money was needed I preffer to know that than getting a paritial answer

Hi Sharonshani,

Sorry the answer didn't satisfy you completely. Next time, when you
want more information, you may want to ask for a clarification before
rating the answer. (Then the researcher will have a chance to add
more.)

Sorry. You are right my mistake.

If I could know I would increase my rating, since I think you responce is right.

Sharonshani,

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