Henny Huisman thinks it is a pity that the viewing figures have been kept secret since this week by NPO, RTL and Talpa to prevent negative reporting. “Fuck everything!”
In the television world they are always very disappointed when they are confronted with the facts. The solution? Just keep the viewing figures a secret: then the media cannot call out the next morning that something is a flop. No more Tina Nijkamp with her influential analyzes and Angela de Jong now also has one less stick to hit with.
Ruined Henny’s ritual
And all those innocent hobby watchers like Henny Huisman? They are victims. Checking the ratings has been part of his ritual for decades. “I got out of bed, made a cup of coffee and went straight to the computer. Just look at the ratings,” he says de Volkskrant.
Viewing figures greatly influence the mood of TV stars. “When a program failed to score, someone once asked me what I was worried about. Didn’t I have nice kids? Well, I said, I like my children even more with high viewing figures.”
“Fuck!”
Henny is on the sidelines these days, but he still checked the ratings. “Let’s see what the top 25 is from last night. I am a bit of the old fishmonger who still keeps track of the quotas.”
That’s over now. Now his “morning ritual is fucked up,” he says. “I understand, but I will miss it.”
From now on, the viewing figures will only be published after a week, when they have been fluffed up with the deferred scores.
rascal
Incidentally, Mediapark rascal Tina Nijkamp just published the latest viewing figures on her today analysis channel. She got it through the grapevine. “I feel like Frits Wester just before Prinsjesdag.”
She continues: “Why am I publishing this? To show that it is already clear on the first day that wanting to keep the viewing figures secret from the viewer, i.e. not publishing the linear figures in 2023, is actually not tenable.”
Volkskrant
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