Dutch public broadcaster VPRO is launching three international YouTube channels showing a selection of programmes with subtitles in English, Spanish and French.
The three channels, VPRO World Stories, VPRO Documentary and VPRO Metropolis are available under the VPRO Broadcast brand on YouTube, offering some 300 hours of programming.
The broadcaster received a grant from the European Commission for the subtitling, which is outsourced to Ericsson. Work has now also started on subtitling the programmes in German, as a result an additional 150 hours of programming will be available in four languages.
The channels are only available outside the Netherlands due to copyrights restrictions, but the original Dutch versions of the programmes can be seen on the broadcaster’s website or Dutch language YouTube channels.
