Arend Willem Langenberg (19 January 1949 – 30 December 2012) was a Dutch voice-over, voice actor and radio presenter. He died at the age of 63 from

colon cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel mo ...

.Nieuwslezer Arend Langenberg (63) overleden
NU.nl, 30 December 2012

Early life

Arend Langenberg began his career in November 1970 at the offshore station

Radio Veronica Radio Veronica was an offshore radio station that began broadcasting in 1960, and broadcast offshore for over fourteen years. It was set up by independent radio, TV and household electrical retailers in the Netherlands to stimulate the sales ...

a station that has stopped broadcasting in 1974, he continued his career as news anchor by the news agency ANP that has been broadcast on Hilversum I, II and III at that time. After this he was to be a transition to the NOB to head of the gramophone library. At the weekend he kept the news on

Radio 538 Radio 538 () is a Dutch commercial radio station that was founded in Hilversum, Netherlands in 1992. It is the second-most listened to radio station in the Netherlands. Radio 538 refers to the wavelength on which Radio Veronica used to broadcast ...

and

Sky Radio Sky Radio is a Dutch commercial radio station playing non-stop Adult Contemporary pop music, owned by Talpa Holding. The target audience is men and women between 25 and 54 years of age. It is programmed according to the AC format (any popular so ...

. A while later, he picked up again fanatically on the new reading and he found himself at the head of the news department at the Sky Radio Group. By Classic FM, it was at this time next station which he can be heard as a presenter. In 2003 he signed an exclusive contract with Sky Radio, which he could no longer work for Radio 538, that station started an own news service. Besides radio duties conferred Langenberg his voice to several other programs and commercials, including the program Peter R. de Vries, crime reporter. In 2009 he worked as the famous newscaster in the feature film ' director Martijn van Nellestijn.

Disease and death

In early 2008 it was announced that he was suffering from

Colorectal cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel m ...

; at the end of 2008 he continues his work again. He died on 30 December 2012, and was buried on 4 January 2013.

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