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Newsreader Jasper Had to Unlearn His Soft G: 'Afterwards It Was Too Hard Again'

Summary by Omroep Brabant
As a child, our own Jasper Stads (29) already dreamed of working in radio. Preferably in Hilversum, as a newsreader at the NOS. He managed to get that far, but to do so, the Tilburg native had to unlearn his Brabant accent. With success, but also a bit of a heavy heart. "After a while, I was told that my G was too hard. You couldn't insult me more." Jasper grew up in Tilburg, but after high school, he deliberately moved to Utrecht to study journ…
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As a child, our own Jasper Stads (29) already dreamed of working in radio. Preferably in Hilversum, as a newsreader at the NOS. He managed to get that far, but to do so, the Tilburg native had to unlearn his Brabant accent. With success, but also a bit of a heavy heart. "After a while, I was told that my G was too hard. You couldn't insult me more." Jasper grew up in Tilburg, but after high school, he deliberately moved to Utrecht to study journ…

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Omroep Brabant broke the news in on Monday, July 7, 2025.
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