Alexander Klöpping fully agrees with Today Inside’s proposal to give the high-quality Nieuwsuur the much-coveted late-night spot on NPO 1. “On the spot of Op1.”
The talk show Op1 has become a sleep-inducing dime-in-a-dozen TV, full of talking heads that actually say nothing at all. And in the shadow of that flawed flagship, the smaller NPO 2 has a program that, according to critics, deserves a much bigger stage: Nieuwsuur.
News hour to NPO 1?
According to the men of VI, it is time for a move and that plan to move Nieuwsuur to the place of Op1 is now supported by Alexander Klöpping. “This is a really good idea from the gentlemen of VI,” he writes Twitter.
Alexander thinks that the public broadcaster should take a serious look at this. “Nieuwsuur to NPO 1 and then out of the freezer, but in a warm and accessible setting, with a little more room for the humanity of the presenters, and you have a journalistic flagship on 1.”
Good proposal
The feared opinion maker Victor Vlam also thinks this is a great plan. “I’m actually a big fan of it. I think it would be really very good to give Nieuwsuur, which is a high-quality program, a big stage on NPO 1, to actually make that the late evening program.”
His colleague Lars Duursma joins the podcast The Communicados to him. “Yes, I am a fan of Nieuwsuur. I think they really are perhaps the best that public broadcaster has at the moment. And journalism really often have very good conversations and make good reports. So I’m actually a fan of it.”
‘Crazy actually’
Lars, known as a communication expert, thinks it’s really special that this has never been thought about before. “Actually, it is also very strange that you broadcast such a program on the second channel and not just on NPO 1.”
Victor: “Yes, I also just think: what does the social debate need at the moment? Then it is not necessarily more opinions, but more informed opinions and that is of course what Nieuwsuur contributes to. You often get a good journalistic report first and then maybe a conversation afterwards in the studio.”
Half past ten
You no longer distinguish yourself as a public broadcaster with a talk show, but you do with such a current affairs section, says Victor. “That is something that commercial television is less likely to do because it costs a lot of money. But that is precisely why I would think: that would actually be perfect for NPO 1 to give a current affairs program a very prominent time slot.”
Lars: “Yes, I am in favour. And should that also start at half past 11? Because all those talk shows start around half past 11, right?”
Victor: “Yes, as far as I’m concerned. Just let it replace Op1 exactly indeed. You can just put real Nieuwsuur there. That just seems like a really good idea to me.”
No reaction
The NPO has not yet responded to the proposals to sacrifice Op1 for Nieuwsuur. Perhaps they see more in the plan to go daily with Ruud & Olcay on the late evening of NPO 1.