Coen and Sander’s show was reduced to one day a week

DJs Coen Swijnenberg (42) and Sander Lantinga (45) Coen and Sander show From October on Radio 538 only on Fridays. The duo announced this on Wednesday afternoon in their own radio program. The men who still perform from Monday to Thursday will therefore present new programs separately from each other.

Swijnenberg will also present a daily lunch program for Radio 538. Lantinga gives an afternoon program on Radio Veronica from Monday to Thursday. 538 and Veronica talk to DJs who can still be heard during that period and who want to keep it. The new autumn program will be announced later.

The show’s move was a decision by Radio 538, not theirs. The duo are also looking forward to the new weekly schedule, although they were “slightly shocked” to learn that their show can’t go on as it is now. † “I think it will be fresher and more creative,” Lantinga said. Still, I will of course miss Coen,” she says.

Swijnenberg also thinks it will take some getting used to without his regular partner, with whom he has been making radio for eighteen years. “We are very close to each other and we would like to keep it that way. But I had to get used to the changes and a kind of new energy came out.”

Rumors that the Coen and Sander Show is ending

Swijnenberg already announced it on Twitter on Tuesday. Coen and Sander Show He was responding to rumors that they were going to stop. “Sander and I want to tell you something. We will do that tomorrow at 4.45 am on Radio 538.”

Coen and Sander Show is sixteen years old. The duo could be heard for the first time in the summer of 2015 on the public pop channel 3FM with the 2006 program. After that, they went to Radio 538 in the afternoon for a lot of money to continue the broadcast. For Coen and Sander Show the two were already duets with the show on 3FM Lantinga and Swijnenberg Friday night.

With Edwin Evers and the morning show Evers rises Swijnenberg and Lantinga formed a strong block on Radio 538, securing the market leadership in radio.

Since 2019, since Edwin Evers left in the morning, Radio 538’s listening figures have slowly but surely deteriorated. Coen and Sander Show It also took its place as the most listened-to afternoon program in recent years.

Lantinga temporarily presented the program on his own from December 2019 to April 2020 due to a burnout at home in Swijnenberg.