Arjan Michiel Sander Veenstra (
Almelo
Almelo () is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek.
Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle of the rolling countryside of Twente, ...
, 6 March 1976) is a Dutch
radio DJ
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on
KINK
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* Kink, a curvature, bend, or twist
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. He presents the program
Michiel
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Given name
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* Michiel Bartman (born 1967), Dutch rower
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every Monday to Friday, between 9.00 and 12.00
Career
He started with his own show at ''Regio FM'', the local radio station of
Wierden. He presented the Saturday night show ''Lucky Night'' as well as a daily morning show ''Wierden wordt wakker'' (Wierden wakes up). Via another local station, HotFM, he moved to work for nationwide broadcaster
Radio 538
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in 1997, where he worked as a producer with DJs
Rick van Velthuysen
Rick van Velthuysen (; born 15 September 1961) is a Dutch radio DJ.
Born in Rotterdam, Van Velthuysen started his career at the age of 18 with ''Radio Bollenstreek''. In 1985 he became a DJ with KRO and had a gameshow with . He moved to AV ...
,
Erik de Zwart
Erik de Zwart (born 16 June 1957 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch broadcaster, former D.J., former Music Box, The Music Factory and MTV V.J. and media entrepreneur.
He was co-founder and shareholder of Radio 538 (1992) and The Music Factory (1995).
P ...
,
Wessel van Diepen
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en
Jeroen Nieuwenhuize. In March 1999 he started with his own show for the station, and worked with Nieuwenhuize for a morning show, The Morning J.E.M.
In 2000, Veenstra left Radio 538 and started work for
Kink FM with the shows ''Sunday Bloody Sunday'' and ''Outlaw Classix''. When the parent company
Veronica restarted
Radio Veronica
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in 2002, Veenstra transferred to this new station. The station transmitted on a small scale through cable only, and for over a year, he was the only DJ on air. During the summer of 2003, Radio Veronica was merged with
Sky Radio
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. At the new Radio Veronica, Veenstra presented ''Veenstra uit de veren'' (Veenstra gets up) every morning between 04.00 and 06.00. With Alexander Stevens, he was also a sidekick for the ''Curry & the Crew'' show with
Adam Curry
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from 6.00 to 9.00. For the show, Veenstra presented a week-long radio show from army base Camp Smitty in
Iraq
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and from a
Las Vegas
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night club, among other places. When Adam Curry left in September 2004, Veenstra started working with successor
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. Veenstra also presented a new Friday night show, the
Veenstravaganza! show. He received a young talent award from the
Marconi Awards jury.
In 2005, Veenstra moved stations again, to 3FM, where he made the evening show ''MetMichiel'' for the NTR. Starting September 2006, he could also be heard on Friday night, together with
Gerard Ekdom
Gerard Ekdom (born 26 March 1978, in Utrecht) is a Dutch radio DJ formerly at the radio stations NPO Radio 2 and the 3FM. Programs he hosted include Arbeidsvitaminen (lit. ''labour vitamines'', a Dutch term for music played while doing manual ...
, in the
Ekstra Weekend
''Ekstra Weekend'' was a Dutch radio broadcast by the Dutch public broadcaster NTR for 3FM. The show aired on Friday nights between 7 and 10 pm. The show was hosted by Gerard Ekdom and Michiel Veenstra. The name ''Ekstra Weekend'' is a cont ...
show. Michiel is also the regular stand-in for
Giel Beelen
Michiel Antonius Adrianus Beelen (born 25 May 1977 in Haarlem), better known as Giel Beelen, is a Dutch radio DJ and presenter, working primarily for public broadcaster VARA. Since 2004 Beelen hosted his own breakfast show ''GIEL!'' on national r ...
, for the morning show
GIEL, as well as the Friday night show
Nachtegiel. Also, Veenstra was heard substituting for
Rob Stenders
Rob Stenders (born 18 April 1965) is a Dutch radio DJ.
Stenders had a long-lasting career in radio starting with local radio stations. Stenders followed up Edwin Evers with the 3FM morning show "Stenders Vroeg" for the public radio and televis ...
in his show
Stenders Eetvermaak Stenders is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Kriv Stenders, Australian writer and film director
* Rob Stenders (born 1965), Dutch radio DJ
See also
* Stenders Quarry, Gloucestershire, England
*A shortened name of ''EastEnders
...
, which they would rename ''Veenstra's Vreetvermaak'' (Roughly translated: ''Veenstra's Munch Madness'').
On Friday 27 April 2007, Michiel Veenstra wrote radio history by being the first ever radio maker to host a live radio show from the
North Pole
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. This was for the ''Noordpool FM project''.
Michiel Veenstra's voice can also be heard in multiple NPS TV programs.
References
External links
*
Biography Michiel Veenstra*
Michiels weblog*
Program website of MetMichiel
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1976 births
Living people
Dutch radio personalities
People from Almelo