RTL 4 did not want to repeat a former Ron Brandsteder show, because the channel feared for his commercial market shares. At least, that’s what TV connoisseur Rob Goossens thinks.
It is also surprising internally at RTL 4 that the TV channel has not reserved any extra broadcasting time to honor his former presenter Ron Brandsteder after his death. Eric De Munck, show connoisseur of RTL Boulevard, finds it himself a blamage that his boss Peter van der Vorst has not pulled a repeat.
In the corridor
Eric has no understanding for it. “What I don’t understand: how hard it could have been to take a band of Ron’s Honeymoon Quiz from the archive – that is at RTL in the hallway – and just to broadcast that at half past eight? On RTL 4! We didn’t do anything and he has been there so long! Or who am I, “he says in The BLVD podcast.
According to colleague Luuk Ikink you can keep going. “Yes, but then everyone he worked must do what.”
Twenty years old
Eric thinks that exaggerated. “Everyone? He has worked at RTL 4 for about twenty years. Then I think: it is not as if he … Anyway, they could have done it at Avrotros, he started there. ”
“I don’t understand that if such a person dies big – everyone was busy with it, including young people – that you don’t just do such a broadcast. I think it would have scored very well. “
“Hup, broadcast!”
Luuk agrees. “Yes, that is. I think people like to see, only if a special is made … “
Eric: “Yes, a week after. They just had to send it that evening that evening that evening had to broadcast. I think, right? ”
Luuk: “Yes, that would have been nice, yes.”
Far too old
Peter van der Vorst probably just didn’t think it was commercially interesting, thinks TV expert Rob Goossens. And that says a lot: if he says something that “editorial is not prepared,” then that is normally cut out by RTL Boulevard. In other words: this just seems true.
Rob: “I wonder if it had scored really well. I think it had scored very old and that the channel also thinks it is a shame for the market shares to say so. But still: you also have Videoland and you could have put a monument for Ron Brandsteder on Videoland. ”
“Repeat something!”
Eric thinks that viewing figures play no role at such a moment. “Yes, good, I also think you should think outside the market shares: this man has had a defining place in our programming for twenty years, maybe we should have a kind of honor with something. Anyway, I think so. “
He concludes: “I am curious: if André van Duin or someone goes once, we will also go something … repeat something!”