Frits Spits (77) stops as a radio maker after 52 years. The Eindhoven presenter announced this together with Omroep KRO-NCRV on Wednesday. Spits can still be heard weekly this year in the radio program De Taalstraat on Radio 1. From 1 January he will quit.
“I decided to stop because I feel that it is now time for that,” he explains his decision. “Making radio is the best thing there is. But I also notice that it costs me more and more energy and I don’t want to let this be at the expense of my listeners and myself.”
Frits Ritmeester, as the radio maker is actually called, has been presenting the language state for KRO-NCRV on NPO Radio 1 since January 2014. The program is all about the Dutch language. In the past he also presented programs such as the evening rush hour, time for two and with a view to tomorrow.
The presenter won various prizes in his career. In 1999 he received the silver travel microphone and in 2008 the Marconi Oeuvre Award. That year he was also appointed Knight in the Order of Oranje-Nassau. In 2019 he was elected ‘Radio Maker of the century’.