Life is full of surprises...
At 1pm today I was enjoying a quiet lunch with colleagues on the terrace outside the Radio Netherlands building. Half an hour later, I was standing outside Studio 6 chatting to some of the staff of Radio 10 FM, who have vacated their former Amsterdam studio and are temporarily using our spare studio until their own equipment has been relocated to the head office of their owners, Talpa Radio.
There were various rumours about what took place this morning. I have already been taken to task by one reader of this Weblog for mentioning one of them as told to me by a senior colleague. The Radio 10 people I spoke to, friendly though they were, didn't want to say too much once I had identified who I was. It turns out that a number of staff were dismissed without notice this morning. The ones who came to Hilversum are the lucky ones who survived the cull. It has been an emotional day for all of them. I'm not even sure if the whole process has been completed yet.
Radio 10's problems are mounting day by day, but there still seems to be a great spirit amongst the guys, and on air they sound just as bouncy as they always do. It's when you actually get to chat to them face to face that you begin to really feel for them. All they want to do is the thing they love: make good radio programmes. Whatever happens to Radio 10, they're not going down without a fight, and these guys can hold their heads up and say "we did our best."
8:27:00 PM 
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