Lex Harding

Reinhard Lodewijk den Hengst (alias Lex Harding) (16 April 1945 in Boskoop) is a Dutch entrepreneur. He became famous chiefly as a disc jockey at offshore station Radio Veronica and as the co-founder of Sky Radio (1988), Radio 538 (1992) and the tv-station TMF (1995).

In 1967, Harding joined Radio Dolfijn, later known as Radio 227, where he was allowed to try it as a disc jockey from a radio ship. Program Leader Tony Windsor gave him the pseudonym Lex Harding. This first radio adventure did not last long because of the disappearance of Radio 227, and in October 1967 he came as a newscaster at Radio Veronica. In April 1968 he became a disc jockey. Soon, his popularity. In the horizontal program, which used the offshore radio in the Netherlands as one of the first, Harding presented on weekdays afternoon Lex Harding show and evening Lexjo, where the famous Adje Bouman top 10, compiled by his sound engineer Ad Bouman. In 1970 he took over the presentation of the Top 40 on Saturday afternoon with Jan van Veen.

He worked in 1969 with the opportunity trio Los Piratos (Harding, Rob Out and Jan van Veen), which scored an alarm disc and a minihit with "We are pirates," a cover of the song "Na na na hey hey kiss him goodbye" from Steam. The song appeared again as a single in 1971, sung by Peter Koelewijn and then called "Na na na hey hey" Tribune, and re-released as "Whoopy whistle" Los Piros.

After the disappearance of Radio Veronica in 1974, he became manager of the public broadcaster Veronica Broadcasting Organisation and co-founder of the Dutch Top 40 and (since 1985) record BR Music. He was involved with the creation in 1989 of the commercial TV channel RTL-Veronique. Because of these commercial activities should he resign when Veronica Broadcasting Organisation.

He secretly put in the nineties with Ton Lathouwers commercial radio station Sky Radio on. Harding founded by former Veronica colleague Erik de Zwart in 1992, Radio 538, and later the TV channel The Music Factory (TMF). This transmitter with only music clips, modeled on MTV and Music Box, is a great success. Meanwhile, Harding sold the transmitter.

In 2005, Harding took along with media entrepreneur Marcel Dijkhuizen and Ruud Hendriks an interest in SLAM! FM. In the nineties Harding held an orchid farm after. Lex Harding is no stranger to the hospitality industry. The DJ ran until December 2005 restaurant Towards Sea in Nijkerk and since 2006 owner of Cafe Old Niekark in the same place. He left the catering business significantly refurbish and put six large screens for video clips and football down.

In September 2011 he published the travel book The journey of my life in which Harding talks about his road trip from Alexandria, Egypt to Cape L'Agulhas in South Africa with his sons and Rick Rein. In week 39 was-ie within 46 in The Best Seller 60.

Lex Harding gets 1 December Marconi Oeuvre Award 2011. That have Erik de Zwart, Wessel van Diepen and Arjan Cutters let him know on Radio 2. Lex Harding is surprised to have won this award and has impressed the jury. What appeals most to him in the report is that he is a man who inspires.