PowNed has been broadcasting since this year The most dangerous roads in the world out, but broadcaster Dominique Weesie does not think it is a typical PowNed program. According to him, it is a contribution to NPO 3 network manager Suzanne Kunzeler, he says NRC.
“BNNVARA wanted to lose the program, Suzanne wanted to keep it for NPO3”, Weesie said in conversation with the newspaper.
“You have to go along with a request now and then. If I help the network manager, she might help me with programming a real PowNed program next time.”
Kunzeler said in a response to the newspaper, however, that Weesie’s willingness should not necessarily lead to “exchange”. “It is not the case that because PowNed broadcasts this program, the broadcaster also gets other or more programs.”
NRC held a conversation with the bosses of broadcasters who wanted to enter the public system a few years ago: Bert Huisjes (Wakker Nederland), Willemien van Aalst (Human) and Weesie.
‘It was crazy’
Huisjes says, among other things, that he has consciously chosen to make relatively inexpensive programs, many of which can be recorded. For example, a three-hour episode of good morning Netherlands him 15,000 euros, “but then I’ll be there every day”.
In the beginning, Weesie chose to use almost the entire broadcasting budget (85 percent) to create one news program.
“It was crazy. The first episode was made that same day. We had nothing! I was bumbling in the studio. I had four reporters who had to play three items per person in a day. And every day something could go wrong. Dan Another car was broken. Or the sound was missing under a recording. “
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