Radio authority Patrick Kicken states that he has received a threatening email from Gordon, the morning DJ on John de Mol’s radio station Radio 10. “He is threatening to confiscate my belongings.”
Patrick Kicken, who is also seen as the Tina Nijkamp of radio land, has been speculating for some time about the future of Radio 10’s morning show. According to him, the listening figures of the duo Gordon and Froukje de Both are not going well, and that is why station owner John de Mol is looking for a suitable successor.
Gordon angry
Patrick’s latest speculation is that the NPO Radio 2 duo Jan-Willem Roodbeen and Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte could possibly end up in Gordon and Froukje’s place. Their contract with the public broadcaster would expire in the summer and they would have already been in discussions with Talpa.
Gordon is not happy with that gossip, Patrick writes in his latest column on the trade site Speaking tube. The radio expert received an email from the entertainer on Friday, he says. “In it he accuses me of a smear campaign against him and spreading lies.”
Worried
Does Patrick recognize himself in that? “I have looked at the recent columns in which he has appeared and yes, I can imagine that the content worries him, but no more than that.”
The radio jester emphasizes that he was initially very positive about Goor and Froukje. “A few days before the news officially came out, I told RTL Boulevard that you could really score, as an adult version of Mattie and Marieke for an older target group.”
Nonsense
Now that the morning show has been on the road for six months, Patrick, based on the listening figures, speaks of a ‘mistake’ and a ‘mistake’ to program Goor there. Does he take back the speculation about the end of his morning show?
He lets Gordon know via his column: “Now the moment you are of course waiting for: me saying that it is nonsense that you will be replaced at 10 in the morning. Unfortunately, I cannot say that outright, because nothing is as capricious as a radio station in difficult weather.”
Stubborn
Patrick, who also points out his proven track record in his column track recordstates that the rumors are ‘very persistent’ that Jan-Willem Roodbeen and Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte had already been in discussions with Talpa Radio before Goor’s arrival. “And now that their contract is about to expire again. But I can’t really say the opposite either.”
He continues: “I was premature in concluding that they will come to your place, because who knows, those guests might want to sleep in and be deployed at a different time, for example in the afternoon. The makers of a show are often only informed of such a change at the last minute.”
Complete nonsense
All in all, Patrick remains behind his column. “You say that the things I write have no foundation and are complete nonsense. You may think so. I know that the people who tell me these things are close to the fire and are often right, but of course I cannot reveal these sources.”
He states that Gordon’s email was ‘threatening’ in tone. “The reason I find your email a bit threatening in tone is that you immediately start threatening the seizure of my belongings by a bailiff. Not annoying in itself because I live in quite a small place, but this is also the conclusion I heard from a lawyer friend: too threatening.”
Own judge
Patrick is not afraid of Gordon. “ChatGPT also says: if this goes to trial, a judge will be involved not amused will be about the last paragraph in particular, in which you play the judge,” he says. “Because I know you don’t like all kinds of comments under articles, I have disabled that option in this column.”
He concludes: “I would like to remind you here that you yourself talk very loudly about fellow media columnists such as Angela de Jong (‘with her eaten head’) and Tina Nijkamp (‘vijswijf’), even in your real-life soap. The conservative Dutch radio listener does not like that.”
