The channel began broadcasting on 28 December 1975 under the name
Hilversum 4. Its first programme was , produced by the
Veronica broadcasting association (VOO), which had just entered the public system. Veronica was given a one hour slot on Sundays. VOO's first radio broadcast in the public sector had a hint of irony inherited from their offshore days, with
André van Duin, continuing under the alias of Simon Somber, one of his characters, announced that the first track was classical in nature, but as a prank from the team, an excerpt of
Long Tall Sally by
The Beatles (the sort of music that aired on Radio Veronica) was played by accident. The station initially broadcast from 8am to 5pm on Sundays, and from 7am to 5pm on other days of the week. Hilversum 4 changed to
Radio 4 on 1 December 1985. On 19 August 2014, the station's name and logo were amended to include mention of its parent broadcasting organization, NPO. On 31 October 2022, it was announced that the stations name would change to
NPO Klassiek effective 1 January 2023, a hub for all classical music of
NPO with the radio at the center, but now with all media related to classical music. ==Content contributors==