“I miss it so much. I just miss this,” said De Nooij in a special four-hour veterans broadcast on Veronica. It featured prominent figures such as Leo van der Goot, Francis Dix, Ad Bouman and De Nooij. “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 ‘just once again’. “I think on the internet or something, something really stupid. And if you say ‘we’re having a nice few hours’, well I’ll come by.”
stunned
Radio boss Rob Stenders was also present in the studio and immediately offered De Nooij a place. “It must be possible to arrange this, Tineke. We will give you your hobby back.” De Nooij was pleasantly surprised at Stenders’ offer. “I am completely stunned. How nice. Well done. I want to thank you. Wow. So I’m coming back here?”
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.