On 28 June 1996, the first episode of Dit was het nieuws was aired by broadcasting station TROS on the Nederland 2 channel.

Huijbregts' successor was young comedian Jan Jaap van der Wal, who served as team captain for a decade.

[3] On 5 June 2010 eventually, RTL broadcast a single test episode that was dedicated to the Dutch general election.

Since Van der Wal was busy working on other shows, Thomas Acda resumed his role as a team captain.

In 2017, the show returned to the AVROTROS, broadcast on NPO 1, with team captains Jan Jaap van der Wal and Peter Pannekoek.