Radio 538 pulls the plug from the daily program De Coen & Sander Show. The ailing radio station chooses to give Coen Swijnenberg and Sander Lantinga another place.
It seems that panic has struck Talpa Radio now that Radio 538’s listening figures continue to fall. After the dismissal of Frank Dane as the morning rush hour DJ, it is now the turn of the afternoon rush hour duo Coen Swijnenberg and Sander Lantinga. They have to stop their daily program De Coen & Sander Show as of June 16.
awake at night
After the summer, Coen and Sander will only be allowed to make a program together once a week, namely on Fridays between 4 and 7 pm on Radio 538. The gentlemen do get their own program separately. Coen can be heard on the other working days from 12 noon to 2 pm on 538, Sander from 4 to 6 pm on Radio Veronica.
It’s not their choice. Coen: “We received this message from: ‘We have a different interpretation for the time you are now at.’ We didn’t see that coming. I slept less well for a few nights. We have never cut corners with this, but you have to put it into perspective: it is part of the work we do.”
Acid DJs
Sander was also a bit shocked. “You can give it a place and look to the future or become very sour. But we have enough sour DJs and ex-DJs in Hilversum. It is of course a matter of switching and giving it a place. It is 16 years of the Coen & Sander Show that continues in a calved form.”
Coen has now also given it a place. “I’ve been thinking about it for a while. Friday is perhaps the most beautiful radio day there is.”
Sander: “Yes, people are looking forward to the weekend.”
‘just shit’
Jo van Egmond, the program’s newsreader, is quite upset. “So I just think it sucks.”
Sander: “It’s no different, guys. It is indeed a pity, but we will continue to exist.”
Coen: “I’m going to miss you terribly, Sander.”
Rumors
The rumors that Coen and Sander have to stop have been around for a while. They came from Patrick Kicken. “And he is always right,” Albert Verlinde said in Shownieuws last night.
Coen and Sander have been making radio together as a duo for eighteen years. So they continue to do that, but then – as Sander calls it – in ‘calved form’.
It is not yet clear who will take Coen and Sander’s place. According to the AD, it concerns Frank Dane.