Wilfred Genee would immediately sign for it if he received a proposal to earn 2.5 million euros a year. “According to Tina Nijkamp we should get so much. Per person, yes!”
Penny wise, pound foolish: Letting the men of Today Inside go is one of the biggest mistakes RTL has ever made. After all, they are currently the cork on which competitor SBS 6 floats. The gentlemen were at RTL at 350,000 euros a year and they wanted to go to 450,000 euros, but RTL did not want to go beyond 390,000 euros.
Tina analyzes
The consequence? A transfer to Talpa in 2018. Johan and René went to 500 thousand euros and Wilfred to 700 thousand euros per year. When Wilfred also started making radio, he rose to almost 1 million euros per year. It is unclear what the salary of the VI trio is at the moment as they make a daily program.
Coen Swijnenberg suggested yesterday that the VI trio is currently negotiating with a party other than Talpa. Tina Nijkamp, the former channel boss of SBS 6, then made an analysis of what the gentlemen are actually worth. Her conclusion? Very much.
2.5 million euros
Tina wouldn’t be surprised if the guys from VI are looking around again, she writes. “Given their success and also in comparison with other high SBS salaries such as those of Wendy van Dijk and Gordon, for example, I think that at least 2.5 million euros per year per person, with a 3 to 5-year contract, is possible and would have been deserved anyway.”
That is very very high. “So much? Yes so much. VI can be seen every working day, without many stops or long breaks in between. In fact, they are almost always there. The huge salary can therefore be shared by many episodes. The channel has ratings success at least 200 times a year.”
Wilfred responds
Wilfred responded to Tina’s analysis yesterday in the opening of Today Inside. Laughing: “Sorry, I just received an app about speculation about salaries, but if that is true, I will sign up for ten years! All that aside. Tina Nijkamp has made an analysis.”
Colleague Johan Derksen: “Oh, then we will be employed by Tina Nijkamp.”
Wilfred: “Yes, well, I don’t know if he can afford that, but he is completely loose.”
Johan: “A very sensible woman, by the way.”
‘The man?!’
Wilfred: “He has an eye for it, doesn’t he? He understands what’s going on. Especially when I read stuff like this. According to her, we have to earn 2.5 million per man.”
Merel Ek stunned: “Per person?!”
René van der Gijp: “The man?!”
Wilfred: “Yes, it’s right here! haha. According to Tina Nijkamp!”
Johan sarcastically: “That is actually exactly the salary I had in mind.”
Merel: “Someone is now having a heart attack somewhere.”
Johan: “John is now throwing a cup of coffee through the windows.”
Wilfred: “Yes, he is going crazy! But it’s Tina Nijkamp, isn’t it? I don’t know how seriously he takes her.”
“Giant, madness!”
Isn’t Tina exaggerating a bit? She says: “Many people ask whether 2.5 million euros isn’t a lot. Certainly. Gigantic. Madness. But theoretically: if you look at their value for the channel and in terms of viewing figures, and then consider that one episode of a talent show costs 4 to 5 tons and Avastars probably even 750 thousand to 1 million euros…”
Then you have about 4 million euros for eight episodes, Tina explains. “With the amount of (minimum 200) episodes VI, including production costs and that huge salary, you would come to about 15 million per year, I suspect. That is 75,000 euros per episode. Not very expensive for a prime-time TV program that scores so consistently well.”
