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The illustrious history of Veronica begins in 1960, as ‘Radio Veronica’, the first Dutch pirate channel. DJs such as Rob Out, Lex Harding and Tineke de Nooij play pop music from the North Sea, something that many broadcasters have not yet done. It will be a resounding success, especially among young people with transistor radios. The fact that the channel had to stop in 1974 due to the anti-pirate law is a big disappointment for many people. Two years later, Veronica struck back: after a major membership recruitment drive, it continued as a public broadcaster, which in the 1980s would even grow into the largest public broadcaster in the public system, with more than one and a half million members.
GOLF
The first wavelength of Radio Veronica was 192 meters. If you look closely, you can still see a wave in Veronica’s logo: a reference to the beginning of the channel, when it still broadcast from the sea.
SIX
Veronica was young and rebellious and used to broadcast many erotic programs, such as ‘De PinUp Club’ and ‘Sex voor de Buch’.
CLUB
Club Veronica was a department within the broadcaster for young people in which they could develop their TV talent.
HERDER
Robert Herder was director of the ‘new’ Radio Veronica in 2003.
BLACK
Erik de Zwart was a presenter and DJ at Veronica.
Door Radio Veronica – wikiportret.nl, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=99505954
TO COUNT
One of Radio Veronica’s most famous jingles consisted of counting out loud to 10, followed by the name of the DJ who presented the program, Tineke de Nooij: ‘1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 , TINEKE!’.
SHEEP
The sea transmitter is named after the sheep Veronica from the poems by Annie MG Schmidt.
CARIBBEAN
Veronica broadcast the travel program ‘Veronica Goes Caribbean’ in the 1990s.
PIET
The TV program ‘Veronica Inside’ lost advertisers due to Zwarte Piet jokes by Johan Derksen and radio presenters from Veronica.
ZEE
Radio Veronica broadcast from a ship in the North Sea from 1960 to 1974.
PIRATE
Veronica was a ‘pirate channel’.
FRANKPAPARAZZI
Jan Paparazzi was heard for years as Jensen’s sidekick on Radio Veronica.
DENMARK
Radio Veronica was created following the Danish example: Denmark had had the offshore station Radio Mercur since 1958.
ROBERT JENSEN
Robert Jensen was a presenter at Veronica from 1994 and later program leader of Hitradio Veronica.6 When Veronica TV was launched in 1995, it was aiming for the sixth channel, just like TMF and SBS6. Veronica therefore started the campaign ‘Veronica at 6’, with the slogan ‘Veronica, a hard obsession’.
MOLLY
In 2017, John de Mol took over the remaining 67% shares of Sanoma, giving him full ownership of the four channels SBS6, Veronica, Net5 and SBS9.
MAGAZINE
As a member of Veronica you get the Veronica Superguide sent to home (‘the entertainment magazine of the Netherlands’), formerly the Veronica Magazine.
JOHAN
Johan Derksen works at Radio Veronica.
DANNY VERA
Danny Vera presents ‘Vera’s Vintage Vibes’ at Radio Veronica.
It’s often about football at Veronica. In addition to football matches, the talk show Veronica Offside can also be seen.
ABBREVIATION
When Veronica entered the public system as a broadcaster, it was still called Veronica Omroep Organisatie, abbreviated to VOO. The V also stands for Veronica in the abbreviation VI, by which the well-known football talk program was known.
HELÈNE HENDRIKS
Hélène Hendriks became the new face of Radio Veronica in 2021. She then presented the radio version of Veronica Inside together with presenter Jan Joost van Gangelen.
VI
The program Veronica Inside was known by the abbreviation VI.
ANNIE M.G. SCHMIDT
Annie MG Schmidt wrote poems about the sheep Veronica. The channel is named after this sheep.
SUMMER
In the 80s, “Veronica is coming to see you this summer!” a legendary and frequently heard slogan of broadcaster Veronica.
CURRY
DJ Adam Curry made his breakthrough on Dutch TV at Veronica, as presenter of the music program ‘Countdown’.
By VOO – Image and Sound Archive, catalog number 9331767, photo number 15, kb2, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11938790
BOOS
BOOS was a program by Bart de Graaff on Veronica.
SORRY
When Radio Veronica had to stop, Peter Koelewijn wrote a well-known protest song: ‘Veronica Sorry’.
OUT
DJ Rob Out started at Radio Veronica in 1965. He worked there for many years and was even nicknamed ‘Mr Veronica’.
BIG BROTHER
The groundbreaking TV program ‘Big Brother’ was first shown on Veronica.
MAAT
DJ Ferry Maat presented programs on Radio Veronica for many years.
OFFSIDE
‘Veronica Offside’ is a well-known football talk show.
ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE
The program ‘All You Need Is Love’ started in 1992 at broadcaster Veronica.
TRANSMITTER RADIO
Veronica started as a radio station from sea.
2023-12-09 20:26:45
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