Tineke de Nooij (81) today puts an end to her radio and TV career. She does that in the last, extra long and festive broadcast of the TinekeShowa program by Omroep Max on NPO Radio 5. She will only stand in for Max in emergencies.
The broadcast started with the song amapola, sung by Jim Dorsey. That was at the top of the American and English charts when De Nooy was born in Baarn in April 1941.
The song is in 40th place of the ‘Tineke Top-40’ that DJ Erik de Zwart offers her. The rest of this special top-40 will be played in the course of the broadcast. It lasts from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM.
Radio Veronica
De Nooij was first heard on national radio in 1953. She was allowed the boy scout program every Thursday Hear it goes on to announce. Five years later, she became a member of the radio play core, a group of actors used for radio plays.
In 1960 she applied to Radio Veronica for which she would continue to work until the end of the offshore station, in 1974. The first year she had her own program. Coffee time with Tinekewhich started in 1962, made her the most popular female DJ.
TV
After Veronica’s end, De Nooij joined the NOS and retrained as a TV director. In 1982 she got her own afternoon program with the public broadcaster Veronica: Tineke. Four years later she moved to the evening. In 1989 she switched to TV10, a TV channel that never received a broadcasting license.
RTL gave her a way out with a program on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, in which people who were looking for a partner were introduced to each other. She also presented Tineke and the paranormal world. Due to declining viewing figures, RTL said goodbye to her in 1998. According to De Nooij, she had to read in a gossip magazine that her contract was not renewed. In 2010 she returned to national radio with the TinekeShow.
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De Nooij was awarded several times. In 2016 she received a Marconi Oeuvre Award, followed two years later by another prestigious oeuvre prize, the Ere-Zilveren Reissmicrofoon. “In an industry where a person over fifty is sometimes already considered a Neanderthal, Tineke de Nooij shows that, even if you have passed that expiry date for 27 years, you can seemingly effortlessly stay upright by simply being yourself always and everywhere” the jury then wrote.