Tineke de Nooij, 81, wants to return to radio within six months of her decision to retire. She said she regrets her decision to quit.
Soon De Nooij can even count on broadcasting time on Radio Veronica’s digital theme channel Vintage Veronica. Her broadcaster Rob Stenders promised this.
“I miss it so much. I just miss this,” said De Nooij in a special four-hour veterans broadcast on Veronica. I’m at home with three cats in the woods. I really mean that. I miss the music. I come in today cranky because it’s really hot, and all those stairs and hassle… and I put those headphones on and it’s there.”
De Nooij suggested that she might do something “once again”. “I think on the internet or something like that, something really stupid. And if you guys say ‘we’ve got a few nice hours’, well I’ll come over.”
‘We give you back your hobby’
Stenders was also present in the studio and immediately offered De Nooij a place. “It must be possible to arrange this, Tineke,” said the DJ and channel manager. “We’ll give you your hobby back.” De Nooij was pleasantly surprised at Stenders’ offer. She said she was “completely stunned” and thanked Stenders for his offer.
De Nooij said goodbye to radio at the end of January after sixty years when she finished her Omroep MAX program TinekeShow last presented on NPO Radio 5. On the occasion of her retirement she was appointed knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
With a program on Vintage Veronica, De Nooij returns to her roots. She was involved in the founding of Radio Veronica in 1960 and became the first female disc jockey in the Netherlands.
The exact details of De Nooij’s hours are not yet known. It is also not yet clear when she will be heard.