Jordi Versteegden, showbiz reporter of De Telegraaf, wonders whether Gordon’s morning show is becoming the RTL Tonight of Radio 10. “I can’t hope for our Goor either.”
The new morning show of Gordon and Froukje de Both has not yet led to higher listening figures for Radio 10. In fact, the radio station is currently the biggest fall in the weekly measurement. “We don’t have a dent in a packet of butter,” we understand, “notes private editor-in-chief Evert Santegoeds in the podcast Strictly private.
Expensive strength
Evert thinks Radio 10 does not get along with this. “Who was first in that place? Lex Gaarthuis, and he scored even higher than Gordon at the moment. That cannot be entirely the intention if you get such an expensive power and generate so much publicity for your new morning show. I don’t hear anyone about it, do I have to say. Do you listen to it?”
Colleague Jordi then Versteegden: “Yes, I listen to the professional, just for my work. At the same time: Radio is a slow business, I have always let myself be told. Those listeners really have to grow in it.”
Astonish
Evert thinks Goor does not have to count on that. “Yes, but for the time being they dropped out rather than growing in, so that’s a big setback for the channel.”
Jordi: “Shouldn’t they have just let him start at the weekend and then perhaps on to weekdays?”
Evert: “Maybe I don’t know either. But that nagging about the early getting up … Yes, there are 5,000 bakers’ stores in the Netherlands and they all get up early. You never hear that about it?”
RTL Tonight
Will this be fine? Evert: “I don’t know. If it’s slow business, we’ll see. I am more curious about next month’s figures than the figures of today, because it all just started and everyone is still starting after the summer, so let’s wait.”
Jordi: “Will this be the RTL Tonight from Radio 10?”
Evert: “Well, if it’s so bad: I can’t hope for our Goor either.”
Ugly Mormel
RTL Tonight is currently a big flop on the late evening of RTL 4. Gordon has also expressed himself extensively. He speaks to Facebook From ‘this ugly Mormel of a program’. “No authority, no tension, no urgency – it is the auditory version of lukewarm tea. And that is precisely what makes a talk show deadly boring.”
It’s all nothing, says Goor. “Add Albert Verlinde, who feels more boulevard ’90s then relevant today, and you have a mix that smells like the date.”