According to radio expert Patrick Kicken, Ruud de Wild is making the switch from NPO Radio 2 to the ailing NPO 3FM, but to what extent is that correct? “Ruud does not say that it is not true.”
It is the important man in the afternoon of market leader NPO Radio 2: Ruud de Wild. But according to radio expert Patrick Kicken, that will come to an end. “He is going to move from 2 to 3FM, to save the station together with other people of name,” he writes in his speaking tube column based on ‘stories that circulate’.
Rumor about Ruud
At first glance there is little to gain for Ruud, but according to Patrick he is offered more than just a daily program. “Ruud would help determine music policy.”
Moreover, Ruud is not well placed with his current channel, according to Patrick. “It is an open secret that De Wild is not comfortable with NPO Radio 2. The way he dealt with his replacement Eddy Keur, who took over his program for more than six months during his illness and whom he did not even thank when he returned. also has borne bad blood.”
Ruud reacts
Ruud is asked for the camera from De Telegraaf† “I heard in the corridors, here too, the rumor that…”, says reporter Jordi Versteegden.
Jordi is then interrupted by Ruud: “Don’t believe that. You should never believe rumours.”
Jordi: “I heard you might help 3FM.”
Ruud: “Yes, I also hear Talpa, I hear all kinds of crazy things. If I have to think about everything that is said, then I have no life anymore. I enjoy living here and I have very nice people around me. The KRO-NCRV is good for me, so I really have nothing to complain about.”
No denial
Story boss Guido den Aantrekker points out that this is not a denial. “He can also say that it is not true,” he says in Shownieuws.
Albert Verlinde: “It is of course a huge story, because Ruud is the hero of the afternoon and people listen to that a lot. Was he going to do this? He doesn’t want to respond to it and that says something. Even if the management doesn’t really want to say something.”
What does Albert think? “It would be a landslide. The public broadcaster can’t wave money, so he doesn’t have to do it for the money, but if he sees the challenge for himself, there can be some kind of incentive in it.”
Fragment
Ruud responds to the rumors: