René van der Gijp defends the trip of his program Today Inside to Curaçao. He doesn’t care about the criticism of the sunny trip. “Others go paintballing, we do this.”
The SBS 6 viewer has absolutely nothing to gain from the fact that Today Inside is currently broadcasting from Curaçao. Ultimately, it is mainly a kind of staff trip that the team enjoys, but which does not benefit the viewer. The criticism does come in, because Wilfred Genee and his colleagues responded extensively to it on last night’s show.
Tina in the breach
If Beau van Erven Dorens or Humberto Tan were to travel to a far foreign country to make their show for two weeks, the men of VI would mock it non-stop in their program, but now that it concerns them, they think it all makes perfect sense. And TV authority Tina Nijkamp also loses her objectivity.
Tina orates to the Today Inside-tafel: “I can explain it, especially because I also worked for a commercial channel for a long time. Ultimately, a commercial channel is about advertisers. That is why a commercial channel exists. It is about sponsors and if they are not there, then a commercial channel has no right to exist.”
Nice event
It is purely to please sponsor Corendon, Tina explains. And thus she confirms that this is of no use to the viewer at all. “Sponsors are very important and that is why we are here. There is a sponsor attached to it and of course money is made from it. (…) It is also just a fun event, isn’t it? That’s how you should see it.”
René van der Gijp then: “Others all go karting or paintballing together, and we are here with the whole group. You interact differently than if you come in half an hour in advance and get back in the car five minutes later. You also see people in private. That’s fun, you know.”
‘Why there?!’
Johan Derksen understands the misunderstanding. “I understand that the viewers think: it is not during the World Cup, why are they there? That indeed only has to do with sponsors. If we have a sponsor from Africa tomorrow, we will be in Africa.”
René: “Isn’t it just nice to do it here with the people we work with all year round and who spend all day in the building in Hilversum?”
A staff outing.
Normal jobs
According to Johan, it is a kind of team building. “The people who have regular normal jobs around us love it. That’s what it’s all about.”
Wilfred Genee: “You can see that we are in Curaçao. At De Hallen, for example, at Eva, you can’t see where it is.”
Tina: “No, that’s right.”
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden sneers Show news finally, that Tina’s position as an independent TV critic is clearly in danger: “We know her, of course, as someone who goes into it hard, but now she is with the men in Curaçao and now she is, in one go, positive.”
