The high workload on the editors of RTL Boulevard and the DWDD-like situations that according to Victor Vlam take place there ensure a lot of controversy. What exactly is going on? “Too little money.”
According to Mediaciticus Victor Vlam and the Juicekanaal Juice Channel, it is quite hommeles behind the scenes of RTL Boulevard. There was already the story about ambulances that had to turn out several times because of horror stress on the editors of RTL News, but also the Boulevard editors and talk showgast Gijs Rademakers would be broken.
Prize
What is the deeper problem that plays at Boulevard? Victor does have an idea: money. “I have heard an interesting theory about that that sounds likely to me and that is that Boulevard is actually sold too cheaply by producer Fremantle to RTL,” he says in the podcast Victor explains TV.
He continues: “Given the importance of the show for the channel and the huge advertising revenues, Fremantle could sell it for more. It is actually a real one Cash Cow For RTL. They earn a lot from it, but there is a reason why they don’t. “
Afraid of competition
Then why not? “Because when they ask for more money for it, there is the risk that RTL will not ask Fremantle, but another producer to make the show,” said Victor. “That actually happened with the late talk show. It was previously made by pilot studio, and from the fall by Endemol.”
Fremantle and RTL shared the same parent company until recently: RTL Group. “Which makes it logical to have Fremantle as a producer, but that changes with the acquisition of RTL Nederland by DPG, so then Fremantle is no longer in the position to increase the price for boulevard.”
Structural solution
Luuk Ikink and his editors have to make do with a limited budget, says Victor. “If they get the minimum of RTL, then you just don’t have a terrible budget for a very big editors. That editors are actually just too small, you could say, for the program.”
“If you ask for more money for that, then you can expand that editors and you can lower the workload slightly. That is actually the core of the problem, as I have understood from someone. It sounds plausible to me at least. That might be a structural solution of the problems there.”