Hélène Hendriks is not allowed by SBS 6 to have live music in her talk show De Oranjezomer. “I really would have liked that, wouldn’t it, but that costs a lot of money.”
The 42-year-old Hélène Hendriks is currently achieving great success with her own daily talk show De Oranjezomer, the summer replacement for Today Inside. It is striking for a summer program that there is no live music. “I would have really liked that, wouldn’t it, but that costs a lot of money,” says the presenter on Radio 538.
‘Duration? No!’
Rick Romijn, one of the most famous radio sidekicks in the Netherlands, calls that nonsense. There are also regular live performances at 538, but facilitating such a thing is not expensive at all, according to him. “Wow, man!”
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This is new information for Hélène. “So they tricked me?”
Low ratings
538 star Tim Klijn replies: “Yes, I think so. You just got sucked into it. Did they really say that’s expensive? Well, man. There is no cheaper television.”
Hélène certainly understood that reason. “I will tell you. We are already on location, which already costs a lot of money, so this was no longer possible, I understand that.”
Not necessary
The Oranjezomer is broadcast from Breda and not from the regular VI studio in Hilversum. According to TV expert Tina Nijkamp, also a former channel boss of SBS 6, this is not necessary.
Tina: “TV makers sometimes tend to go abroad or into the country instead of the ‘regular’ studio. Often to counter the criticism that many people in the media world live in a Hilversum or Amsterdam bubble. Which is correct in itself, and therefore a nice initiative in itself, however: broadcasting programs on location is not the solution for this.”
Table remains table
Why isn’t that the solution? “The viewer does not see where the program comes from. A table remains a table,” she says. “The sound is often hollow and you are very bothered by ambient noise.”
More importantly, according to Tina: “A studio always looks much nicer. See the difference between De Oranjezomer and Marcel & Gijs. And it adds nothing to the content of the conversations.”