Anita Witzier is completely in shock. The 63-year-old presenter has had to hand in more than half (!) Of her salary from the management of KRO-NCRV. “I didn’t expect it that rigorously.”
There was a time when Anita Witzier was one of the larger female stars of the public broadcaster with programs such as Hints, ten for language and especially: Memories. However, a lot has changed in recent years and nowadays we see her with Niemendalletjes as 12 streets green and fancy tomorrow. When was that turning? In 2017.
Anita’s relegation
It is that year when Anita is told that she has to give her television child to Katja Schuurman, the thirteen year younger. She completely helped memories in destruction, but the relegation of Anita was already a fact. “Yes, then I received a different program package,” she looks back on frankly de Volkskrant.
“I found that painful, especially because the program stopped our baby not long after and memories was not at Katja, that whole program was changed at the time, but when Katja, who has a completely different image than me, I thought that was going to present: does that fit with the program? (…) Well, see what happened.”
Less asked
Psychologically, Anita has gone through hell; She thought it was terrible to see her popularity sagging in. “Well, yes, that is at first a shock, yes. Painful, I think that’s the right word. So of: suddenly I can’t do it anymore, suddenly I don’t have it anymore.”
She continues: “I understand that new people will replace me and that I will get a different role, but you do not have to immediately throw the child away with the bath water. My qualities are not optimally used now. (…) It feels like you have been bumbling and dressing all those years.”
B-track
Anita admits that she has been a bit of a bit of a B-rail at the public broadcaster: she is now doing programs about philosophy of life and gives interview training to young trainees at the editors. “We had been under fire at the NPO for a long time.” Much too old people look at it! “, It was always called. So offensive too!”
In fact, she just became the victim of the rejuvenation urge of then, she continues. “How do you get it in your blunt resin to say that, you exists by the grace of those old people and there will only be more. So there will be. So Count Your Blessingsfocus on that. My daughter is 27 and doesn’t even have a TV. “
Half salary
Her relegation also hurt financially, says Anita. “I went for a conversation with my managers at KRO-NRCV and thought there was nothing wrong. So I was there, Blablabla. And then they suddenly said it was all very different. On the one hand I understand, because I started presenting less and other programs, but I didn’t expect it that rigorous.”
How rigorous was it? “Pff, it was halved, more than halved. I said I was shocked. I made another attempt, but that didn’t work. Maybe I should have been on my stripes, I don’t know.”
One tons
What exactly Anita has returned is unclear, but chances are that she was on the salary maxum, that a few years ago was a little more tons. That means that she went to 100 or 90 thousand euros per year, for example. Still a very big salary of course.
The big question is: did Anita negotiate this well? Is she actually good at that in negotiation? “I am the worst in it,” she admits. And that cost her a lot of money …