Drentse Courant [SEP] country of origin
Drentse Courant
The Drentse Courant is a former regional newspaper from the Netherlands. It was published from 1991 to 2002. It was a merger of the "Drentse en Asser Courant" (1961) en "Hoogeveens Dagblad" (1966), themselves also merged newspapers. In 2002, the "Drentse Courant" merged with the "Nieuwsblad van het Noorden" and the "Groninger Dagblad" into the "Dagblad van het Noorden".
bought the newspapers of Wegener in its region, the Drentse Courant and Groninger Dagblad. FGDP was renamed Noordelijke Dagblad Combinatie (NDC) on 1 July 1994.
History 2000s.
On 2 April 2002 the Groninger Dagblad, Drentse Courant, and Nieuwsblad van het Noorden were merged into the Dagblad van het Noorden. The Leeuwarder Courant continued as is.
NDC merged March 2005 with Veen Bosch & Keuning Publisher (VBK) to form NDC|VBK. On 1 June 2007 the NDC Mediagroep was established as the subsidiary of NDC|VDK that would