Public broadcasting companies are worried their financial position may become worse after the general election because the two Liberal parties and the PVV want to cut their budgets even further, the AD reports on Monday.

If more cuts are made, the public broadcasting system will disappear, the organisation’s chairman Henk Hagoort tells the paper.
‘We are already busy with the biggest revamp ever. Extra cuts of €600m would mean there is nothing left,’ he said. The PVV wants to cut that amount from the public television and radio companies.
In addition, some parties are calling for a reduction in the number of television channels from three to two.
The outgoing government also sliced into the public broadcasting budgets, with cuts mounting up to €150m a year by 2015. Several broadcasting companies are merging.
Semi-public
The Dutch Publieke Omroep or public broadcasting system is funded by the state and advertising.
Public broadcasting companies (including AVRO, BNN, EO, KRO, NCRV, TROS, VARA and VPRO) provide programmes for three television and five radio stations as well as digital channels.
They have a specific religious, political or social slant and their airtime is allocated according to how many members they have.