Journalist Vlad Petreanu announced that on December 20 he will leave the project “Deşeptarea” from Europa FM, and will return with another show.
Vlad Petreanu will start another project PHOTO: Facebook Vlad Petreanu
After 12 years of presenting “The Awakening” on Europa FM, between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., journalist Vlad Petreanu will hand over this project to other colleagues. Petreanu also announced who will replace him at “Deseptarea”.
“I decided to leave the Awakening project in the hands of my colleagues. This is the last week in which I will participate in my beloved matinee, which I have been doing every day for 12 years already. It’s a decision I made some time ago, after mulling over it for much longer.
At the beginning of this season, I announced the management of the radio. Together we decided that it would be good for me to stay at the Awakening until the winter break, which is on December 20th. During this time, my colleagues could quietly research and prepare a new format. You will discover it from January. There will be a lot of surprises, new columns, new contributors, and a new colleague who will team up with Luca Pastia: Adi Luca. I’m sure you’ll enjoy spending your mornings with them, and I hope you’ll stay tuned. Incidentally, I will keep a weekly column in the new format – it is about the well-known Fantastic Republic of Romania. Plus, I’ll be back with another show on Europa FM – but not one that starts at dawn,” Petreanu wrote on his social media page.
He also announced that he took the decision for a long time, against the background of chronic fatigue,
“First of all, it’s a matter of deep fatigue and a chronic lack of sleep that I haven’t been able to compensate for years. I never had problems waking up at dawn, but after a while I started having problems falling asleep in the evening. That’s life – you prepare for one, another comes. So I had to make a decision.
Then, it is also about the desire to develop other media projects, in radio and outside it. Making a morning radio show requires an iron discipline (at least for me) and a lot of time invested in the preparation of the show: every evening summary and editing, every morning live, year after year. Experience can speed up some production phases, but it cannot eliminate them altogether, and there is not much time left to do anything else.
I remain grateful to all my colleagues, past and present, from whom I had to learn so many things iduring this time and with whom I lived some of the most powerful and memorable journalistic experiences of my life.
All in all, I want to thank you, the listeners, once again for all that you have given me in all these years that have passed in the blink of an eye. I loved talking with you every morning, laughing, getting sad or angry with you, seeing what is happening around us.
I came to radio, 12 years ago, from a very different media space – from television, a world much colder and more distant from its audience. Radio is something else entirely. On the radio we are together, the producers and the listeners, in a very intimate space, and that requires sincerity and truth. You don’t stay so close to someone unless you love them. Being someone you love doesn’t mean that you can’t argue with them sometimes or that they can never let you down, but it does mean that you trust them in a very deep way. This emotional connection between the radio producer and the listeners is a relationship that does not exist in any other form of media. I’m sure you feel it as well as I do, every time you turn on the radio to listen to your favorite tunes.
Somehow, 5 more days with me at the Awakening, then a shorter vacation for my colleagues and a much longer one for me, because I need to recharge my batteries and reset my creativity.
But, obviously, we will hear from each other again – because I don’t think it will happen otherwise“, Vlad Petreanu also wrote.
