Hans Hogendoorn from Diever has been included in the Wall of Fame in the Sound and Vision museum in Hilversum today.
Hogendoorn has been one of the better-known voices on Dutch radio for about fifty years. ‘It’s 10 degrees outside… it’s inside…’, is a statement he has been making since 1976 at the opening of the NPO Radio 1 program With an eye to tomorrow.
Hogendoorn’s career began in the 1960s at Radio North Sea International. Since then he has made countless programs for various channels, and he has designed them. Radio Tour de France was a well-known example of this. For a long time he was also the transmitter voice of Radio 1, but last year he made way at the age of 74. Hogendoorn himself wanted to continue, but the designer of the channel decided otherwise. “You know something like this can come one day,” he said. “That’s just how it goes. Newspapers get a different font every now and then.”
The inclusion of his portrait in Sound and Vision follows the award of the Honorary Silver Travel Microphone, an oeuvre prize for radio makers. His portrait now hangs between those of other winners in a glass wall in the museum. That happened with a tribute where Hogendoorn himself was a guest.