Welcome to our time machine! TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Founding father and director of the show was Rien van Wijk. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the program weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Queen, Golden Earring, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic and many more! This channel also includes video's from other legendary music programs like TROS Popformule, TROS Top 50 etc.
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AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964.
