A while ago, Igmar Felicia (31) suddenly announced that he had been fired from Radio 538. In the ‘Dit Was De Radio’ podcast, he talks candidly for the first time about how that went and how he is now, a few months later, feels.
“I should have stood up for myself sooner”
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In an earlier Instagram post, Igmar already hinted that he was very disappointed with the decision of 538. ‘BAD BAD! JOB AWAY! That’s a nice introduction if you hardly ever post anything anymore. To get straight to the point, then I’m also immediately off: my contract with 538 runs until April and I now know for a week that it will not be extended. That sucks, shit, sucks. And at the same time not the end of the world. It is what it is.’
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In This Was The Radio tells Igmar that it has always been his dream to work at 538, but that in practice things turned out differently than he had hoped. Igmar was given the chance to start a program, but according to him there was no room to make mistakes. “You still have to discover, fold and make your program, that’s not the place there.”
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When asked how long he struggled there, he answers that this took about three years. He hated the fact that he had to leave the channel completely. “It does hurt that it happened. I don’t understand why you immediately say ‘I’ll stop with that’, because I think it went well in terms of numbers. People liked it. But at a certain point it becomes a difficult story It’s a big company and it’s not like you talk to the managers there every week. People often thought for me, while I thought: if you had checked that with me now, you would have known that it wasn’t at all is how people think.”
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Igmar said he had big plans for the radio station, ‘but there was no room or time for it’. “And that makes you insecure. And then you don’t make good radio. I liked the show we made, but not always myself. I should have stood up for myself earlier.”
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When he is asked one afternoon to come to the studio, he does not smell any danger. “I wanted to tell something about the broadcast and then I was told that I had to leave. I froze, I thought: so this is that moment.” Igmar decides to go home that day, but soon realizes that he still wants to finish his show in the following weeks. And he has not regretted it, because according to him this was ultimately ‘the best period’ at 538.
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