The ultimate chance to pull the late evening of RTL 4 out of the doldrums seems lost: Wilfred Genee and his colleagues from Today Inside are almost complete with their current employer Talpa.
Wilfred Genee, René van der Gijp and Johan Derksen are currently at the peak of their careers: they single-handedly ensure that SBS 6 still has a right to exist. Until a few years ago they were still with RTL, but they left there out of dissatisfaction with their salary negotiations. It may be RTL’s biggest miss ever.
Wilfred is out
The chance to rectify that huge mistake now seems definitively gone: Wilfred Genee is losing weight Business class known that he and his colleagues are as good as out with Talpa. “How is your contract doing?” Harry Mens asks him.
Wilfred then says: “Oh, you’re going for the scoop right away, aren’t you? Well, I can tell you that we are basically out.”
Harry: Are you out or are you not out?
Wilfred: “We’re done. Well, I got it sent. But I still need to check it all out. But if everything is in it that we agreed on, then we have a…”
Don’t jibe angry anymore
Harry: “But Gijp had some difficulties or something?”
Wilfred: “Yes, but he has gotten over his possible problems. That Friday night was also a thing for him, but it went very well last time and I have the feeling that he is now starting to be very happy with it. I also notice from him again in the last week, now that we are going to get out, that René is also feeling good again.”
According to the AD, this is a contract extension that takes effect immediately after signing, with a duration of two years and an option for a third year. They would earn 1.2 to 1.4 million euros per year.
RTL misses a huge opportunity
According to the newspaper, it will be signed within a few days, which means that it is almost certain that RTL will definitely miss this mega opportunity. With the retrieval of the VI trio, the station could have killed two birds with one stone, namely decimating competitor SBS 6 and pulling RTL 4’s late evening out of the doldrums.
The late evening of RTL 4 is now just B-choice. Eva Jinek occasionally returns from vacation to participate for a few weeks, the level of Beau van Erven Dorens has dropped to such an extent that he now fills half broadcasts about nail polish and Renze Klamer is not going to bring a level either: he says he would rather Donny Roelvink then Pieter Omtzigt at the table.
Then again full time Humberto Tan? Angela de Jong is already sharpening her knives…
Millions of rain
All in all, bringing in Wilfred and his colleagues seemed like the ultimate way out. Maybe RTL will find the rain of millions for the men of VI too much? According to Evert Santegoeds, the gentlemen are more than worth it. “If you divide that by 200… There are so many episodes,” he explains in Show news.
And colleague Ronald Molendijk: “It’s a fairly simple calculation, isn’t it? There are a lot of commercials around and it is demonstrable that if they are in the evening, the programs before, but certainly after, score better.”
There is only one reason left: in this age of political correctness, RTL no longer dares to challenge the VI trio in terms of image. And then you are a bit safer with Beau, Eva, Humberto and Renze. Although the viewer finds it a lot more boring, as the ratings show every day.