VARA-radio

See also Vara Radio & VARA. The Omroepvereniging VARA, the VARA Broadcasting Association, was a Dutch public broadcasting association primarily operating in the fields of television, radio, publishing and interactive media. It was a member of Netherlands Public Broadcasting. The association was founded in 1925 as the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs[ (Association of Worker Radio Amateurs). The name was changed to Omroepvereniging VARA in 1957 and is no longer an acronym. VARA originally focused on labour and socialism. In the era of Dutch pillarization the association had close links to the Social Democratic Workers Party and its successor, the Labour Party. On 1 January 2014, VARA was merged with BNN to form BNN-VARA. Since 24 August 2017 they broadcast under the name BNNVARA. On 1 September 2018 the member associations of BNN and VARA were merged.