Angela de Jong ends up in a striking position now that her boss DPG Media finally takes over the RTL Nederland, which she has criticized. Should she go to Humberto Tan?
After a long process, approval has finally been made for the takeover of RTL Nederland by the large Belgian group DPG Media, which includes the AD of Opiniediva Angela de Jong. Can she still criticize all kinds of RTL presenters to your heart’s content or will her boss Erik Roddenhof intervene?
No letter other
A substantial amount is put on the table for RTL, namely 1.1 billion euros, and then of course you are not really waiting for a critical noise that can cause things to harm. “If she burns a program completely and the viewer drops out. In some cases that sometimes costs millions,” said BN’er photographer William Rutten earlier.
Angela has already warned that she will absolutely not bind. “DPG does. I am not going to write a letter otherwise about RTL than I have done so far. (…) As soon as I am not allowed to do something, I will be gone. Yes, that will not happen to me.”
Eva Jinek ban
The question is whether Angela will receive an Eva Jinek ban: that program is a competitor of the late RTL talk show. “His editors of, grab it, the AD or de Volkskrant, will soon be obliged to join the new talk show RTL Tonight or in other RTL programs?”, Her direct colleague Dennis Jansen wonders in the Ad.
Their boss Erik Roddenhof then says: “Of course not. All our editors and all our journalists work very independently and we do not oblige anyone to sit down.”
Critical angela
To be sure, Dennis asks: “Can TV columnist Angela de Jong still critically write about RTL programs?”
Erik then: “Angela de Jong decides for herself how she writes about TV programs and presenters, that honesty is appreciated by the readers of the Ad. And also by us. So Angela has to continue to do what she is very good at and gets all the space for that.”