Wietze de Jager helped his radio career into the plaster room. He had the most coveted broadcast spot on Radio 538, and then? Complain. Complain! “Now he is relegated to 3FM.”
The hours during the morning rush hour are the ultimate for radio DJs: if you’re there, you’re a very big one. Wietze de Jager succeeded. At the beginning of last year he was allowed to take over from Edwin Evers’ first successor Frank Dane, together with colleague Klaas van der Eerden. And then he started complaining: heavy, he thought. So heavy!
Wietze the Complainant
After years of working towards that morning rush hour slot of 538, Wietze found out that he really couldn’t do those few hours of work in the morning. Just exhausting those three hours of talking pictures together. When he shouted live on the radio – why no one knows – that he wants a four-day work week, it was done.
Wietze was eventually pulled from that morning by John de Mol, because he doesn’t feel like a complaining jock. Now Tim Klijn is there with Evers’ old sidekicks and they are also complaining, but not about their work. That hurts again. And what will happen to that Wietze now? It now goes all the way to the exit.
‘Goes to 3FM’
At least, that is what Patrick Kicken, the most important radio columnist in our country, says. “I heard your name going around the weekend at the Lowlands Festival,” he says in his latest Mouthpiece columnwhich is addressed to Wietze.
He continues: “Your (still) ex-colleagues Ivo van Breukelen and Barend van Deelen were walking around there, whether or not a little bit under the influence of beer and other relaxing substances, trumpeting that another 538 jock will soon make the switch. to the NPO worry child 3FM. Not against me, but I happened to be there.”
Third choice
That is about Wietze, says Patrick. “What makes the whole story a bit sour for Wietze de Jager is that, as it turns out, he is third choice.”
Tim op het Broek and Giel Beelen were first approached, he knows. And so it will be Wietze. “In terms of salary, he will also have to sacrifice a lot, but that is why we invented child benefit in the Netherlands.”