'Flaw: RTL7 does on television like cycling football' - Volkskrant

OPINION – Arno Tilt Mountain – 07/11/13, 16:57

© Reuters. Tour du Jour, seen on RTL 7.

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column The edge business might argue in favor of the NIS against RTL7, when it comes to talk shows around the Tour de France. But that’s too easy, writes Arno Tilt Mount. RTL’s Tour du Jour contains a flaw.

• Cycling is the sport of experienced farmers’ sons (football: overblown prima donnas)

Against The Evening Stage of NOS, RTL program two years since the Tour du Jour, program from half past eight to monitor RTL7 every night. The design of Tour du Jour is equal to that of the RTL 4 program Voetbal International: Wilfred Genee’s host, the house band is led by Danny Vera, Johan Derksen and Leo Driessen his sidekicks, there are viewers questions, and former athletes ensure the clownish contributions (René van der Gijp in football; Eddy Planckaert and Gert Jakobs in cycling).

If I would be easy to finish, I would be the outcome of this struggle between audiences and commercials can dismiss the ratings. Tour du Jour is around four hundred thousand viewers; Evening Stage tap occasionally million. Case closed, you might say.

But where is it then? There are obvious criteria: RTL7 as station less than 1 Netherlands. Moraine is the viewer accustomed to cycling as a sport of the public broadcaster, which not only have access to the images of the current Tour de France, but also that huge archive of all the previous editions. The Evening Stage and of course the trump Mart Smeets, the man in whose – undoubtedly impressive – bum I parked a spring Tuesday (although the comments on the summaries of RTL’s Leo Driessen also high class). Finally comes the Evening Stage from the spherical France, Tour du Jour from Utrecht.

Joligheidjes
Anyway, that are largely criteria also for football rise, while in that field’s RTL Voetbal International (Golden Televizierring in 2011) is just a bigger success than the football talk show of public broadcasting. This is because there is a flaw in Tour du Jour. RTL is based on the premise that football and cycling sports that can be. Treated in the same way The rubriekjes (around miss of the day, cycling of the day), the pinpricks of Wilfred Genee; Tour du Jour is a patchwork of joligheidjes. However, the perspective of Genee is in football a relief, because that sport is heavily overexposed, and much to be taken seriously. But cycling is not that sport deserves solemn hymn.

Cycling sticks also intrinsically differently than football. Cycling is the sport of experienced farmers’ sons (football: overblown prima donnas) of manmoedige escapes and unprecedented heroism (football: time stretching and Diving). The degeneration of football calls for cynicism, the epic performance of cyclists ask epics. The snaakse mode jammer Wilfred Genee, so suitable for football, stores in cycling death as a fat beer in glass.

Last night at Tour du Jour indirectly mentioned the reason why Pedro Delgado ever too late came before the start of a trial (he was still in the toilet). Yes, let such an opportunity Genee not themselves pass course. So it was a long time about shit. The Evening Stage is Jacques Brel; Tour du Jour is sometimes Jacques Tati, but too often Jacques Herb

_{Arno Tilt Mountain is the editor of Esquire and writes a weekly television column. for the Volkskrant, on the site of Jean-Pierre Geelen.}

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