The concentration of broadcasters in Hilversum has given it its enduring status as the media city for The Netherlands.

Some sources blame connections in the television world for attracting crime to Hilversum, and the town has had to cope with mounting drug-related issues in a community with higher than average unemployment and ongoing housing shortage.

The town of Hilversum has put a great deal of effort into improvements, including a recent renovation to its central train station, thorough renovation of the main shopping centre ( Hilvertshof ), and development of new dining and retail districts downtown including the " vintage " district in the Leeuwenstraat.

It is not the only municipality with three parish halls, but it is the one and only one which has a parish hall in another city ( Hilversum ).

Hollandsche Rading has a railway station on the route between Utrecht and Hilversum.

Hilversum is part of the Randstad, one of the largest conurbations in Europe.

Hilversum was one of the first towns to have a local party of the populist movement called Leefbaar (" liveable ").

Still ill, he returned to the Netherlands in 1936 to take up residence in a nursing home in Hilversum, where he died on October 5, just after his 38th birthday and one month after the publication of his last collection of verse, Een eerlijk zeemansgraf (" An Honourable Seaman's Grave ").

In 1914 he began teaching the classics at the Hilversum gymnasium ( grammar school ), but, due to deafness in one ear and impaired vision, had trouble maintaining order in the large classes at that institution.

Wright's early influence in northern Europe is unquestionable: Le Corbusier is known to have had and shared a copy, Czech architect Antonin Raymond and Austrian architects Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra all re-located to the United States in hopes of working for Wright, and one look at Willem Marinus Dudok's 1924 Hilversum Town Hall betrays its origins.

After some bureaucratic obstruction, which one critic described as a mini-Watergate, the VOO was finally granted a licence and was invited to open the new Hilversum 4 radio network on December 28, 1975.

Hilversum is home to an extensive complex of audio and television studios belonging to the national broadcast production company NOS, as well as to the studios and offices of all the Dutch public broadcasting organizations and many commercial TV production companies.

With the arrival of illegal offshore commercial radio stations, such as Radio Veronica in 1960 and Radio Nordzee in 1964, Hilversum 3 launched in 1965 to provide a legal alternative and to steer audiences towards the public service channels.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide ( RNW ; ) is a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands.

Dudok became City Architect for the town of Hilversum in 1928 and designed and built about 75 houses, public buildings and entire neighborhoods there, best known for the brick Hilversum City Hall ( Raadhuis ), completed in 1931.

Hoofddorp itself lies on the crossing of the two main secondary roads in Haarlemmermeer: the N201 from Hilversum to Zandvoort and the N520, that runs alongside the main canal of the Haarlemmermeer and dissects the polder from north to south.

Hilversum 3 was renamed, along with the other two networks to Radio 1, Radio 2 and Radio 3 towards the late 1980s.

In addition to Etty, Riva Hillesum bore two more children: Jacob ( Jaap ), born in Hilversum on 27 January 1916 and named after Louis ' father, and Michael ( Mischa ), named after Riva's father.

Horses were stabled in Hilversum, a town 30-km from Amsterdam and the location of the majority of the equestrian competition, with two jumping competitions taking place in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.

* Van Droogenbroeck, F. J., ‘ Paltsgraaf Herman II († 1085 ) en de stichting van de abdij van Affligem ( 28 juni 1062 )’, Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis 2 ( Hilversum 1999 ) S. 38-95.

Witteveen and Van Veen became acquainted in 1986 in a disco in Hilversum.

Van Lidth de Jeude was born in Hilversum, the Netherlands, and came to the United States with his family in 1958, where they resided in Orange, New Jersey ( until 1960 ), then Stamford, Connecticut ( 1960 – 1962 ), Ridgefield, Connecticut ( 1962 – 1970 ), and Mount Vernon, New Hampshire ( 1970 – 1973 ).

In 2012, in a Dutch episode of the tv-programme Classic Recordings about Shocking Blue's album At home, with a rare interview with guitar player Robbie van Leeuwen and clips of Nirvana's live performance of the song in Paradiso, Amsterdam, Shocking Blue's Klaasje van der Wal was proud of the fact that Novaselic once called him a bass god in a blog, while it was said that Van Leeuwen was pointed to the availability of the Nirvana album during a visit to Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Dick Diamonde ( born Dingeman Ariaan Henry van der Sluijs ( in Australia Van Der Sluys ), on 28 December 1947, in Hilversum, Netherlands )) was the bassist with Australian rock group, The Easybeats.

De Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk en Nieuw-Guinea 1949 – 1962 ( Hilversum 2006 ).

It is a part of the municipality of De Bilt, and lies about 5 km south of Hilversum.

* Deugd boven geweld: een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995, G. F. van der Ree-Scholtens ( red ), Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum 1995 ( ISBN 90-6550-504-0 )

Two train stations were built in the town, that still exist today: Naarden-Bussum and Bussum Zuid ( Dutch for Bussum South ), both on the connection between Amsterdam and Hilversum.

Other main office locations include Rennes ( France ), Edegem ( Belgium ), Wilmington ( Ohio, USA ), Burbank ( California, USA ), Princeton ( New Jersey, USA ), London ( England, UK ), Rome ( Italy ), Madrid ( Spain ), Hilversum ( Netherlands ), Bangalore ( India ) and Beijing ( China ).

He began Radio Herrijzend Nederland in 1946 ( from Eindhoven ), moving the studios to Hilversum later the same year.

Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen ( Nouen ), ( Nijkerk, January 24, 1932 – Hilversum, September 21, 1996 ) was a Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books about spirituality.

* Deugd boven geweld: een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995, G. F. van der Ree-Scholtens ( red ), Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum 1995 ( ISBN 90-6550-504-0 )

The southern region became dominated by the Hilversum culture ( 1800-800 ), which apparently inherited the previous Barbed Wire Beakers cultural ties with Britain.

Etty spent her childhood years in Middelburg, Hilversum ( 1914 – 16 ), Tiel ( 1916 – 18 ), Winschoten ( 1918 – 24 ) and Deventer, from July 1924 on, where she entered the fifth form of the Graaf van Burenschool.

Among his best results in other important tournaments were: clear first at Iwonicz Zdroj 1957, equal first with Taimanov at Dresden 1959, equal first with Lajos Portisch at Beverwijk 1965, clear first at Kislovodsk 1966, clear first at Gothenburg 1967, clear first at Kislovodsk 1968, equal first with Mikhail Botvinnik at Wijk aan Zee 1969 ( ahead of Keres ), equal first at Havana 1971 with Vlastimil Hort, equal first at Hilversum 1973 with Laszlo Szabo, clear first at Budapest 1973 ahead of Anatoly Karpov, clear first at Teesside 1975, clear first at Moscow 1975 ( ahead of Boris Spassky, Viktor Korchnoi, and Petrosian ), clear first at Las Palmas 1976, equal first with Gennadi Sosonko at Wijk aan Zee 1977, clear first at Bogotá 1978, equal first at Bern 1987 with Daniel Campora, clear first at Dortmund ' A ' 1989, and equal first at New York Manhattan 1990 with Gregory Kaidanov, at age 65.

Important tournament victories: Budapest 1989-I-II places ( tied ), Vienna 1990-I-VI, Gausdal 1991-I-II, Katowice 1992-I-II, Metz 1993-I-III, Pardubice 1993-I-V, Las Palmas 1993-I-II, Pardubice 1994-I-II, Stockholm 1994 / 95-I, Stockholm 1995 / 96-I, Asti 1996-I, Reggio Emilia 1996 / 97-I, Buenos Aires 1998-I-V, Cutro 1999-I, Shanghai 2000-I-II, Barlinek 2001-I-III, Kavala 2001-I-II, Bad Wiessee 2001-I-IV, Wijk aan Zee 2002, tournament " B " – I, Budapest 2004-I, Vlissingen 2006-I, Wijk aan Zee 2007, tournament " C " – I, Elsinore 2007-I-V, Mumbai 2008-I-VI, Hilversum 2009-I-IV, Vlissingen 2009-I.

The new international trade routes opened by the Beaker people became firmly established and the culture was succeeded by a number of Bronze Age cultures, among them the Únětice culture in Central Europe, the Elp culture and Hilversum culture in the Netherlands, and by the Nordic Bronze Age, a culture of Scandinavia and northernmost Germany-Poland.

Back in The Netherlands, in 1986, he got noticed by 3FM DJ Rob Stenders and through him he got his demo to several Dutch radio-stations in broadcasting capital Hilversum.

One of several Hilversum schools designed by Dudok

Hilversum lies south-east of Amsterdam and north of Utrecht.

Earthenware found in Hilversum gives its name to the Hilversum culture, which is an early-to mid-Bronze Age, or 800 – 1200 BCE material culture.

Artifacts from this prehistoric civilization bear similarities to the Wessex Culture of southern Britain and may indicate that the first Hilversum residents emigrated from that area.

The first brick settlements formed around 900, but it was not until 1305 that the first official mention of Hilversum (" Hilfersheem " from " Hilvertshem " meaning " houses between the hills ") is found.

In 21 March at 6: 30 am ( The hour at which people got up, as the farm was full of loud and restless animals ) 1424, Hilversum received its first official independent status.

From that time the town grew quickly with rich commuters from Amsterdam moving in, building themselves large villas in the wooded surroundings, and gradually starting to live in Hilversum permanently.

Despite this growth, Hilversum was never granted city rights so it is still referred to by many locals as " het dorp ," or " the village.

The Nederlandse Seintoestellen Fabriek ( NSF ) company established a professional transmitter and radio factory in Hilversum in the early 1920s, growing into the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, and in 1948 being taken over by Philips.

In the meantime, almost all Dutch radio broadcasting organizations ( followed by television broadcasters in the 1950s ) established their headquarters in Hilversum and provided a source of continuing economic growth.

In 1964, the population reached a record high – over 103, 000 people called Hilversum home.

In 2001, Nagel from ' Leefbaar Hilversum ' teamed up with ' Leefbaar Utrecht ' leaders to found a national ' Leefbaar Nederland ' party.

By strange coincidence, in 2002 the most vocal ' Leefbaar Rotterdam ' politician Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by an animal rights activist at Hilversum Media Park just after finishing a radio interview.

This happened, however, after a break between Fortuyn and Nagel during a Leefbaar Nederland board meeting in Hilversum on Fortuyn's anti-Islamic viewpoints.

One can get the best connections from the station Hilversum, as this is an Intercity station.

On 6 May 2002, at age 54, Fortuyn was assassinated in Hilversum, North Holland, by Volkert van der Graaf.

A congress for this purpose held in 1989 did not result in much progress towards this goal, although independent parties were still very successful in municipal elections especially in Hilversum and Utrecht.

In 1999, prominent media personalities Henk Westbroek and Jan Nagel, chairs of the highly successful Leefbaar Utrecht and Leefbaar Hilversum parties respectively, founded Leefbaar Nederland as a spin off from their local parties.

The term " Leefbaar " was turned into a political brand by the Leefbaar Utrecht and Hilversum parties ; the founders tried to reproduce this success by taking over the name.