The Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. (TMG) is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 media

Mass media

Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

 and publishing

Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...

 company

Company

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, mostly active on the newspaper

Newspaper

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s and magazine

Magazine

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s market, but also on the Internet

Internet

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. It also holds small interests in ProSiebenSat.1 Media

ProSiebenSat.1 Media

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG is a European media conglomerate, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses. It was formed on October 2, 2000 by merger of German TV broadcasters ProSieben Media AG and Sat.1 SatellitenFernsehen GmbH...

 and Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau

Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau

The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau is the largest news agency in the Netherlands. ANP was founded on December 11, 1934 by the association of Dutch newspapers NDP...

. De Telegraaf

De Telegraaf

De Telegraaf is the largest Dutch daily morning newspaper, with a daily circulation of approximately . De Telegraaf is based in Amsterdam...

, its flagship publication, is frequently considered a populist

Populism

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 paper. It has also bought the rising weblog GeenStijl (after having bought a large interest in it earlier) and Hyves

Hyves

Hyves is a social networking site in the Netherlands with mainly Dutch visitors and members and competes in this country with sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Hyves was founded in 2004 by Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam, and Floris Rost van Tonningen....

, the most popular social network site in The Netherlands.

The company was formerly known as the NV Holdingmaatschappij De Telegraaf. Profits for 2005 were €65.4 million and the company has a market cap of €1.1 billion (May 2006).