Jan Slagter, the boss of Omroep MAX, is sounding the alarm now that the NPO will probably have to cut another 50 million euros. “You will soon get Heel Holland Bakt with three commercial breaks!”
There are Marcel Wanders lamps worth a ton in the NPO building, but now that they have to make cuts they are screaming bloody murder. Hundreds of owners and managers, but who is affected by the cuts? The programs, MAX boss Jan Slagter calls out in a rather hysterical interview A.D.
Massacre
Jan is really in full overdrive and shouts: “I am really going to fight for our programs and will continue to bombard politicians. Because first 100 million, then suddenly 50 on top of that; what’s the next step? This is almost torture what they are doing and I will not accept that.”
Uhh, torture? Isn’t that going a bit far? No, anything but even! He even talks about a ‘massacre’. “If it becomes 150 million, that will no longer be possible. Then it becomes a bloodbath. Certain programs will not return and the public broadcaster must rely more on repeats.”
Janny on 4?
Massacre? Why then? Well, because Heel Holland Bakt might have to go to RTL or SBS. What a disaster. It will all be very different, says Jan. “It is still a very pure program without any interference from commercial parties, but then it is interrupted three times by commercial breaks.”
“And then you constantly get the idea that all this is made possible by baking flour from Koopmans. Jury members Robèrt van Beckhoven and Janny van der Heijden will certainly not lend themselves to that.”
‘You must dare!’
Robèrt and Janny will not lend themselves to that? “Haha that Jan Slagter. Bet you a bunch of butts, yes!”, shouts X-influencer MiesBee.
Paul van den Bosch, editor-in-chief of AD Regio, finds it laughable what Jan says. “Using the word ‘torture’ when considering proposed cuts in public funding. You just have to dare. But yes, public broadcasting, eh,” he writes X.
‘You bastards!’
The opinion site NoStyle also finds Jan’s complaint laughable. “And all because K*TKABINET did not want to cut back on education if necessary.”
“What in the name of God is education if you can no longer see how Sunanda from Nibbixwoud, trembling and whining, puts the finishing touches to a caramel-sea salt-meringue cake WITHOUT BEING DISTURBED BY ADVERTISING?? Bastards.”