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Media Future Week | March 29, 2024

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Hello Hilversum!

Hello Hilversum!

MFW14 is moving! We say goodbye to Almere, the Alnovum and its friendly people and are moving to the Media Park in Hilversum. ‘On this lovely location we have many media companies together’, says Frank Visser, coordinator of iMMovator and project manager of the MFW. Two studios will be transformed to co-creation spaces and the lectures will take place in the Institute of Sound and Vision (Beeld & Geluid). During the MFW14 fulltime participants will stay at different hotels in Hilversum. All the hotels are nearby the Media Park. We are excited about these new locations and the possibilities they have to offer! The Media Park is the hotspot of the Dutch media industry. The perfect place to build your network!

Media Park

The Media Park is a large business park in the Dutch city of Hilversum. This site is home to a number of Dutch broadcasters (f.e. RTL, VARA, BNN, VPRO, NOS) and media companies (DutchView, United, Talpa, Sony), and is the headquarters of the national public broadcasting system NPO.The first (radio) studios of the Media Park were built in 1961. In 1967, two television studios and a decor centre were added to the park. In 1974, a new Decorcentre was opened, which housed the largest collection of props in Europe. In 1983, the ‘Omroepkwartier het Schakel- en uitzendcentrum’ opened, in this building the final régies of the three public channels found their home. The Media Park received its current name in 1988.

The Netherlands institute for Sound and Vision

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) is a cultural-historical organization of national interest. It collects, preserves and opens the audiovisual heritage for as many users as possible: media professionals, education, science and the general public. In addition, the institute develops and disseminates knowledge in the area of audiovisual archiving, digitization and media history.

Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid) had one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. The institute manages over 70 percent of the Dutch audiovisual heritage. The collection contains more than 750.000 hours of television, radio, music and film from the beginning in 1898 until today.

Studio 3 & 4

The co-creation sessions will take place in studios 3 and 4. These studios, located in the ‘Studiocentrum’ are two medium sized studios that are used to record TV-programmes, like ‘De TV Kantine’, ‘That’s the Question’ en ‘Kassa’. They are also used as event studios, for example for the iMMovator Cross Media Cafés. During Media Future Week, the studios will be transformed to dynamic co-creation spaces for the teams to work on their case solutions. Next to the ‘Voetbal International’ and ‘Sesamstraat’ studios, you’ll find yourself in the heart of the Dutch television industry.