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Arjan Michiel Sander Veenstra (
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, 6 March 1976) is a Dutch
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on
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. He presents the program
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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
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. 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
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in 1997, where he worked as a producer with DJs Rick van Velthuysen,
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,
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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
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with the shows ''Sunday Bloody Sunday'' and ''Outlaw Classix''. When the parent company Veronica restarted
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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
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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
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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
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and from a
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night club, among other places. When Adam Curry left in September 2004, Veenstra started working with successor Jeroen van Inkel. 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
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, in the
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show. Michiel is also the regular stand-in for
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, for the morning show GIEL, as well as the Friday night show Nachtegiel. Also, Veenstra was heard substituting for
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in his show Stenders Eetvermaak, 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
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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

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Biography Michiel Veenstra
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Michiels weblog
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Program website of MetMichiel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Veenstra, Michiel 1976 births Living people Dutch radio personalities People from Almelo