Meijer hosted English and Spanish versions of the show for 15 hours on Sundays as it was broadcast to different areas around the globe. Under his tutelage, the show pioneered live international phone-in shows. However, its format remained largely musically based, Meijer's musical tastes were more contemporary than Startz's and tended to be in the easy listening genre, with Meijer himself sometimes performing songs. World music would also be played. Meijer also encouraged listener interaction with the show, with a mailbag segment and a listener birthday feature, the Birthday Book, where he would wish read out the names of listeners whose birthdays coincided with that week's airdate and wish them a happy birthday. There were "No more “cuppa’s”, no more animal farm or Sousa marches, but live shows from outside locations; travel stories with sound effects, recorded on the spot by Meyer; the famous “birthday-book”; dramatized Easter Egg Hunts; and to top it all: live inter-continental telephone call-in shows" The show also ran a pen pal club encouraging listeners across the world to write each other. The show was cut down from 80 minutes to 50 minutes in 1977, along with other RNW programming. In the 1990s, Happy Station was again shortened in order to accommodate a Radio Netherlands news bulletin at the start of the hour. Previously, Sundays were the only days on which RNW didn't broadcast news bulletins.