Art Rooijakkers behaves like a large star at Talpa: he has stipulated that he no longer has to present news of the day, but does retain his contract. “Typical example of luxury horse!”
It is a major achievement: Art Rooijakkers has switched from RTL to Talpa to present the daily news section News of the day, but he has hardly been seen and is already dropping out because he finds it all too right. Nevertheless, he retains his contract, probably for a salary discount. Why is Talpa okay with that?
Star fair
Art owes this purely and only to his agile manager, thinks former SBS boss Tina Nijkamp. According to her, it keeps a doctor value at the starbeurs artificially high.
It surprises her how little art has been seen in news of the day, also outside the recovery period of the operation on his vocal cords. In seven months it concerns 24 broadcasts. “Energy? Hardly.
Best manager
How is it possible that Art has been at home for months and has now managed to stipulate a news of the day exit at Talpa? “In Hilversum, the following applies: those who have the best manager have to do the least.”
Art is a typical Hilversums luxury pair, Tina explains. Managers of these types of figures are ‘in practice mainly gatekeepers who ensure that their client has to do as little as possible’.
Scarcity
Such a manager creates a lot of blabla around someone like Art, says Tina. “They sell scarcity: sixteen episodes present a year, three episodes as a participant in a game show, okay also a podcast, and hup, the agenda is supposedly full. Their tactic is simple: the star is exclusively due to its laziness.”
SBS 6 has much more to a type like Thomas van Groningen, the successor of Art who has no manager, she concludes. “No lament, no fuss, just make meters. Exactly the type that Hilversum now needs,” she says. “It’s high time to stop pampering luxury horses.”