– The system at the top has not dealt with this case as orderly as they could. And not least they have failed to see the people who have actually been clients there, who have been there and done a job. That’s what Sofie Steen Isachsen says about the news management in her new podcast, which was published on Wednesday morning. In the first episode called “The truth”, Isachsen and Williams tell, among other things, about the news collaboration. This is the first podcast the friends have created outside of a media company. – If we had continued to be there, I think there would have been an eternal rowing about the fact that we don’t really belong there, says Isachsen. On Instagram, Isachsen has written that she will finally tell everything and that they are back. news has had a contract with Broadcasting Manager Vibeke Fürst Haugen, but she does not want to comment. Acting director of the Marienlyst division in news, Charlo Halvorsen, says they have not heard the podcast. – We just wish Sofie and Fetisha the best of luck with their new podcast, says Halvorsen. Two weeks ago, the collaboration between Sophie Elise, Fetisha and news ended. Photo: Xin Li Podcast from bed Two weeks ago, the collaboration between Sophie Elise, Fetisha and news ended. news concluded that the commercial ties to the two profiles were too extensive for them to be combined with an ongoing podcast production for news. In the episode that came on Wednesday morning, they answer questions they have received from listeners. They are asked questions about, among other things, the Debate, what they earned at news, and what really happened when there was a breach with the public broadcaster. – The reason why we don’t say those numbers specifically is that if we say what we earn, we say what all other podcasters earn there, and we don’t want to do that, says Isachsen. She elaborates that she thinks people have thought they earned a lot more than they have. Isachsen says that she did not join the news program Debatten because she did not understand what she was supposed to do there. Photo: Xin Li – It’s a good salary, but not in relation to what we have the opportunity to earn in the first place. I would have liked to have double this four-week dryer ride that we’ve been through, says Williams. The duo is still playing from Isachsen’s bedroom. The episodes are released once a week, and have a recommended age limit of 18. The new podcast will probably be similar to the previous one and has been given the subject tags culture, personal stories and comedy. – Many hats and cook In the episode, they also answer why they did not appear on the Debate and what they think of the broadcast. Isachsen says that she did not stand in the Debate because she did not understand what she was supposed to do there. – There were just a lot of hats and cooks, she says and continues: – It would have just been so stupid. I didn’t know what to defend. And what do we think of the Debate? It was horrible. Williams, for her part, says she didn’t run because she didn’t dare, and because she believes she had nothing to do with it. – They open the Debate with: “Rundpuling! I like to play when I’m drunk”. It just couldn’t have been worse, says Williams. The much talked about photo from Sofie Steen Isachsen’s Instagram. following the picture, the Broadcasting Council received many complaints. Photo: SCREEN DUMP INSTAGRAM According to Isachsen, she spoke to the head of broadcasting, Vibeke Fürst Haugen, the evening before the debate. – She says she digs the content she wants to create. She is super proud to have it on news. She realizes that there is a different target group than her, obviously. But she digs it and she was supposed to back it in the Debate and that’s why I was a little surprised that it hadn’t happened, says Isachsen. Isachsen says that although she was surprised by what happened in the Debate, she does not think of news as a big ugly wolf. – I just feel that it is such a massive organization that it becomes so difficult to handle. – After all, we have only done our job. We were signed to create content that would hit a target group where the goal was for them to get more listeners to their app. It happened, says Isachsen. Broken collaboration with news Just two weeks ago, the collaboration between Sophie Elise and news ended. This happened after Sophie Elise published a photo on Instagram that caused a big reaction. – As a public broadcaster, we could not live with the agreements as they were, said broadcasting manager at news, Vibeke Fürst Haugen in a press release. At most, their podcast on news had 97,820 listeners in one week. Photo: Henriette Dæhli / news The conclusion of news was that the commercial ties to Sophie Elise and Fetisha Williams are too extensive to be combined with ongoing podcast production for news. Isachsen wrote this in a press release: – news has wanted the current agreement to be changed in a way that places strong restrictions on our other commercial activities. I have no desire or opportunity to close down the rest of my business in order to save the reputation of news, and we therefore feel compelled to end the collaboration. Screenshot from Sophie Elise’s Instagram account. Photo: Facsimile from Instagram / @sophieelise On Instagram, Isachsen expressed that working with the news podcast “Sophie og Fetisha” has given more flavor. – We are proud of the podcast we created together with wonderful colleagues at news Entertainment and are grateful for everything they have taught us. And more podcasts, there will be – albeit on a different platform. Co-presenter of the podcast, Fetisha Williams, said this: – We have turned down other and more lucrative offers in order to collaborate with news, and we do not regret it. It has been instructive and developing to work with such a large and professional organisation, and we were ready to develop the concept further.
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