Getting the best out of your time, money and yourself. Be entertained and informed. Antoinette Hertsenberg’s magazine Radar+ (started 2011) will help us with this. Radar+ makes your life easier, is bursting with energy and is full of tips, solutions and ideas. Parts of the magazine: clothing, money matters, home and garden, consumption, food and drinks.
Antoinette Hertsenberg and the television program TROS Radar
Antoinette has presented the television program Radar since 1994. This program attracts more than two million viewers every week. TROS Radar is a consumer program that not only exposes abuses, but also tries to contribute to a solution. Since 2011, Radar has had its own magazine, Radar+, which is published every two months.
The structure of the Radar+ magazine
The front cover is made of smooth and slightly glossy paper. On a fresh red background you will find the name of the magazine and eleven topics that you will encounter in this first issue. Furthermore, an image of a house, which fits many of the topics of this issue. There is no year on the front cover and I cannot see that it is the first issue.
The foreword by Antoinette Hertsenberg
The foreword is about the fact that everyone is looking for ways to live as tidily as possible with as little energy as possible. Radar+ will help with this, finding ways and practical advice that will make life clearer and simpler.
Who will buy my house? / Source: Radar.nl
The table of contents
Above it says that it concerns Radar+ winter 2011. The following parts are in the table of contents:
- Miscellaneous
- Columnists
- Clothing
- Finances
- File
- Spare time
- House Garden
- Wellbeing
- To consume
- Eat Drink
Seven portraits of special families / Source: Radar.nl
- Miscellaneous
- Preface
- Figures and facts: such as that 65% of Dutch people sometimes long for the Health Insurance Fund, Dutch people eat an average of 4.9 kilos of chocolate per year.
- Become a subscriber: via the website, a telephone call or complete and send the voucher that you find in the magazine.
- Colophon: names of editors-in-chief, employees, publisher/director. Editorial address, subscription service, subscription conditions, advertisements, distribution of single-copy sales.
- Small happiness: statements by people about what they consider small happiness, such as: checking my bank account and seeing that money has been deposited, wild Dutch skies.
2. Columnists
- Rob Stallinga: finance
- Ad Fransen: house & garden
- Els Rozenbroek: house & garden
- Jean-Pierre van de Ven: wellbeing
- Beatrijs Ritsema: consuming
- Mara Grimm: food & drinks
Nice gifts and wrapping ideas / Source: Radar.nl
- Clothes
Clean out the closet, ideal jeans, rain gear, washing, repair work (shrunk T-shirt).
4. Finances
Hole in your hand and what you can do about it, whether car sharing is cheaper, nice second-hand items, children and money (financial education), insurance (don’t pay too much), 28 tips if you have a house for sale.
5. File
In this issue there are gifts for everyone between 5 and 100 euros. A division into children’s, teenage, men’s, women’s and DIY gifts. Also a few nice wrapping ideas.
6. Free time
Affordable winter sports, smart booking of your summer holidays, going out with the girls & the boys.
7. Home & Garden
Summer house becomes winter house, autumn bouquet, garden in winter, feeding birds when it freezes, duvets, dust mites, wood stoves, a clean bathroom in five minutes.
8. Wellbeing
Seven portraits of special families, nice music for every moment.
9. Consume
What should you pay attention to with plastic surgery, hot shower (thanks for good service), sneaking sugar (and the importance of reading labels).
Snipe sugar / Source: Radar.nl
- Food & Drink
Pasta ( quick dishes), types and flavors of tea, brand test (sprinkles), flavors and types of potatoes, time management lesson and vegetarian recipes, kitchen aid (spatulas), how to clean a burnt pan, small ABC dossier on chocolate, Bloody Mary (autumn cocktail).
Ads
You will find some advertisements in the magazine: PostNL, Ahava, Retina Total Eye Care, smoke-free policy, Philips Sonicare.
What do you pay for Radar+
Single issues cost 3.95 euros. You can also take out a subscription: 6 issues (annual subscription) for 19.95 euros (2015). For cancellation conditions, see colophon. Sign up for a new subscription: radarplus.nl/abonnee.
My opinion about Radar+
The Radar program attracts many viewers, who may also be curious about the Radar+ magazine. The magazine is promised to entertain and inform. Great variation between heavier matters and light-hearted topics. Suitable for men and women of all ages. The table of contents is very clear, nice font, nice photos. This magazine is highly recommended.