Friends and family said goodbye to Peter de Bie on Friday. This was announced by Mieke van der Weij, with whom he worked for more than 25 years, in the radio program MAX Nieuwsweekend.
The broadcast opened with a tribute to De Bie. The journalist chose euthanasia earlier this week. De Bie passed away on his 75th birthday.
“We said goodbye to Peter yesterday,” said Van der Weij. “It was a beautiful gathering: cheerful, but also sad.” This was followed by a compilation of fragments of De Bie from the TROS Nieuwsshow, which he made from 1996 to 2018, and MAX Nieuwsweekend, the ‘successor’ to the Nieuwsshow.
De Bie has been a fixture for many radio listeners since the late 1970s. He worked for KRO, VARA, TROS and Omroep MAX and won, among other things, the Zilveren Reissmicrofoon.
The presenter stopped making radio at the end of 2022 due to his poor health. He suffered from heart failure, among other things, and had to have his leg amputated after an infection. In a farewell interview in Met het Oog op Morgen earlier this week, De Bie said that “the fun is gone”, also after the death of his wife Dieuwertje Blok. Blok died in early March from the effects of cancer.