Jan Slagter will retire at the end of 2024 as director of Omroep MAX. The 69-year-old broadcaster reports this in conversation with de Volkskrant. “I will stop as broadcasting director at the end of 2024, my succession has already been arranged,” says Slagter in the newspaper. “But making programs remains fun.”
A spokesperson for Omroep MAX says that it will be announced in the course of next year who will succeed Slagter.
“I still really like it – at least, coming up with programs,” says the broadcaster de Volkskrant. “Because what I am done with in this village is the management, the meetings and the working groups. In that area, I will soon turn the back burner.”
Slagter founded Omroepvereniging MAX in 2002 because he felt that too few programs were being made for the over-50s. MAX was given aspiring status in 2005, and five years later MAX became a full-fledged broadcaster. With 430,000 members, MAX is currently Hilversum’s largest member broadcaster.
Rollator broadcaster
According to Slagter, in 2005 he was considered ‘a strange man, an idiot, with a rollator broadcaster. Well, we are now an added value within the order. And yet I still feel that disdain sometimes. In the beginning there were people who wouldn’t shake my hand, who ignored me. I just didn’t look under my car when I left in the evening, it was really hostile. Very bizarre.”
He does intend to remain the face of MAX even after his retirement as broadcaster. “I present a program here and there, maybe do the members’ day, see how long I can keep that up. And when I am no longer the face – wonderful.” He and his wife bought a house in Málaga: ,,A great city, really booming, and easy to fly to. So I see us staying there regularly.”
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