Okay, it’s really starting to escalate now: Tina Nijkamp, the rascal of the Mediapark, receives support from the PVV in her fight to liberate the viewing figures. “At any cost!”
What a situation: the Peter van der Vorsten of this world are fed up with all those show media that simply call a viewing figure flop a viewing figure flop and that is why he has agreed with all other TV bosses to keep all those viewing figures a secret. Well, after a week they will be published once the news value is gone.
Tina quits
Of course a very nice way to influence the coverage of your TV channels, but they are just playing with Tina Nijkamp’s hobby here. And Tina won’t be messed around with. On the first day of the secrecy, she simply started shouting the latest ratings on her channel. Did she get it from someone.
Unfortunately for the viewing enthusiast, Tina did not continue with that yesterday. “Thanks for all the responses, also from channels, producers, TV makers and TV viewers. Really never had so many positive reactions. The statement has been made and hopefully this ‘secrecy’ will soon be over. I do have the numbers, but for now I will leave it at that.”
PVV is angry
Tina stops revealing the ratings? Did Peter and his fellow bigwigs send an army of lawyers on the SKO fetishist? It just might. According to Today Inside, more may follow sanctions against Tina because of the one-off disclosure of the viewing figures.
Sanctions against Tina? Who tries to liberate the viewing figures for the Dutch people? Scandalous, they think it is at the PVV. “It must remain a secret at all costs that no one is watching NPO66 anymore,” PVV MP Martin Bosma says. X.
Bosma’s followers are quite enthusiastic about it. One Jeroen doesn’t know what he hears: “Bizarre, sanctions because someone announces viewing figures? What a country.”
“They’re panicking!”
AD media journalist Marcus den Blanken thinks it is all unnecessary. “If we write something and it doesn’t go down well, then the TV owners are all in a panic, because the whole world is [volgens hen] busy with the TV world and if something negative is said, then that’s very bad! And that is also the case with those viewing figures,” he says in the AD Media podcast.
He continues: “Yes, then they score poorly and then it is annoying that there is a piece and then they want to ban those figures. Well, it worked. Congratulations. (…) A week later we will no longer write about a program.”
Shoot in the foot
They will regret it, says Angela de Jong. “I think they are more likely to shoot themselves in the foot with this, because you no longer have the opportunity to write a jubilant piece because VI scored extremely well last night or that Chateau Meiland was finally close to the million , so that the misery seems to be over there too.”
She continues: “I don’t think they should be very happy with that in the long term. But they get away with not disclosing the ratings. You can suddenly shout: ‘It’s a huge hit!’ No one can control it and there are always a few media that take over, so I am also curious how this will go.”
Panic football
What a blunder, said Marcus. “It’s just the TV owners who are too busy with themselves and therefore think this is useful.”
Angela: “And huge panic football. I would say: instead of trying so hard to keep those ratings a secret, just make the content of your programs better!”
Oh, oh, oh. The bear is loose.