Eva Jinek and Rutger Castricum become colleagues of each other, because Avrotros and Powned have decided to form the first broadcaster of the new NPO system together. “Decisive!”
The knife goes into the NPO: Minister Eppo Bruins has determined that the NTR will disappear and that the other broadcasters merge with a maximum of four or five broadcasters. It will all take a while, because it is intended that the reforms were implemented on January 1, 2029. The AVROTROS and Powned are already taking the first step.
Eva and Rutger
The Eva Jinek broadcaster and the Rutger Castricum broadcaster will jointly form the first broadcaster of the new public order to be reformed. “From that date, both broadcasting brands will be active under a joint Supervisory Board while maintaining their own identity,” says a spokesperson.
At the moment, both broadcasters are already working together at the back, namely when it comes to, for example, IT, Legal Affairs, Finance and HR. Soon they will go completely together. “This shows that we want to move forward,” says Avrotros boss Taco Zimmerman. “There is no time to lose.”
Dominique Positive
Dominique Weesie, the boss of Powned, joins. “The current collaboration between the two broadcasters is in very good harmony and has many synergy benefits.”
The boss of Omroep Max, Jan Slagter, announced yesterday on TV that he absolutely does not want to go together with AVROTROS or another merger broadcaster. Dominique: “Let us be the first to dare to step over our shadow in the interest of a public broadcaster that is efficient and decisive, but while retaining the identity of both broadcasting brands.”
No fight
It is salient that Eva and Rutger will become colleagues of each other and will soon come across each other on the Christmas drink, because he is a regular guest in today Inside, where she is regularly destroyed.
Incidentally, Rutger is always quite mild for the presenter, with whom he has also sat at the table. In 2020 he made a hefty slider on her talk show table by scolding with ‘t*Ringmong ** l’.