Guido den Aantrekker, in addition to Story boss also one of the bosses at RTL owner DPG Media, states that it is a ‘no-brainer’ that the talk show RTL Tonight will stop in its current form. “Anyway.”
According to Guido den Aantrekker, it is inevitable that his employer DPG Media, where he is director of the Entertainment Magazines department for both the Netherlands and Belgium, will pull the plug on the current RTL Tonight. “I think it is a no-brainer that the current format will not continue in this capacity,” he says Show news.
Out of the wind
According to him, Beau van Erven Dorens and Humberto Tan, the presenters of RTL Tonight, are a faded glory. “You see that Beau and Humberto are no longer the crowd-pullers they once were,” says Guido.
He continues: “Renze has of course left, but you can also wonder: perhaps he is being kept out of the wind a bit on purpose so as not to have the stain of that program on him, so that he can start fresh after the summer break.”
Make money
Guido points out that his boss just wants to make money with RTL Tonight. “RTL has been taken over by DPG Media. That is an extremely commercial media company. I also work there, as a disclaimer I have to mention it right away. It is of course true that a program like RTL Tonight also has to make money, right.”
He continues: “We have to attract a lot of viewers and it has to pay off. If advertisers are also kept away from that a bit, because otherwise people will no longer watch after such a commercial break, then yes, you cannot continue with that for very long. That would not be healthy.”
Expensive program
What Guido means by this is that RTL 4 often cancels all commercial breaks in the late evening in the hope of retaining the viewer, but that is not sustainable. “It is a very expensive program. If you look at the experts involved, they are not the least in terms of compensation.”
How many people watched RTL Tonight yesterday? “Unfortunately, a low record for 2026 so far,” says ratings expert Tina Nijkamp. analysis channel. “271 thousand viewers. This makes it the fifth worst viewed broadcast of the show to date.”
