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NOS News•today, 21:15
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Former AVRO radio presenter Jan Steeman passed away on Saturday after a short illness, broadcaster AVROTROS reports. Stephen was 76 years old.
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His name is mainly associated with The work vitamin, of which he was the compiler between 1985 and 1992. When the program moved from 3FM to NPO Radio 5 in 2010, Steeman took over the presentation.
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He would present the program until 2017. “I always thought it was a pleasure to do,” he told his successor at the end of that year Hans Schiffers.
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Great love for music
Earlier, Steeman had Toppers from then in The Stone Age created. He also held various managerial positions for the AVRO, including at 3FM. In that role he hired radio talents who would later become famous DJs, including Giel Beelen and Gerard Ekdom.
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Hans Schiffers was also hired by Steeman in the mid-1980s. “He had the guts to give new DJ talent a chance. He took the gamble,” says Schiffers in response to the death of the man he calls his radio father. According to Schiffers, Steeman was “an incredibly passionate radio enthusiast, with a great love for music”.
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And especially early music, Schiffers knows. “That’s where the name of his program refers The Stone Age also to. His own name was in it, which was often corrupted into Steenman, and his predilection for the older music.”
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In The work vitamin Schiffers will pay tribute to the former presenter tomorrow morning. With music that Steeman himself selected shortly before his death.
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