Alejandro Alfie
03/02/2020 - 18:03
- Clarín.com
- Politics
As he announced in his controversial speech of assumption, Rosario Lufrano imposed his militant imprint on the conduct of public media. Radio Nacional changed its programming and added militant journalists such as Mario Wainfeld, Chavo Fucks, Horacio Embón and former 678 Sandra Russo, among others. In addition, he put Gustavo Campana as vice president of the radio, who was as candidate for mayor of Vicente López for the Front of All in the last elections.
Simultaneously, although Lufrano said that the state broadcaster would have a "federal" production, Clarín agreed to the programming grid that the Broadcast Management distributed to the 49 subsidiaries throughout the country, where it is seen that National Radio would stop broadcast on the AM870 the programs of eight provinces. So far he left only one program, which is broadcast on Saturdays from Córdoba for the whole country.
This situation generated strong controversies. The director of Radio Nacional Córdoba, Orestes Lucero, fears that some programs that were made from that province for the whole country, such as Tira Nacional and Mama Rock, "do not have continuity, because of the Buenos Aires unitarismo that they showed with the presentation of the grid the last Friday, "said Lucero.
It is that until now the authorities of National Radio included in the draft of the programming grid a single program that will be broadcast from Córdoba, "Country Study", which will lead Quique Pesoa on Saturdays at noon. While last year from Córdoba, the National Strip was broadcast, from Monday to Friday, from 7.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Mama Rock, on Saturdays.
The rest of the provinces would fare even worse. Since in the new programming that was leaked from National Radio, it would not be "We get up", which was broadcast every day from San Juan; nor other programs that came to the whole country and were made from Entre Ríos, Tucumán, Salta, Misiones, Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and Santiago del Estero, a province that would stop spreading the "Alero Quichua" program.
Six former directors of Radio Nacional sent Clarín a statement in which they expressed that "the new management of National Radio is killing the radios of the interior. The majority, with very little personnel. A resource that we had the radios of the interior were the artistic contracts , that is to say, monotributistas that invoiced him to the radio. All the artistic contracted ones expired their contract on December 31 and until now they only renewed to very few, that they start this March 2 ", raised the former holders of the subsidiaries of the station State in Viedma, Claudia Beltramino; in Resistencia, Mónica Lorenzo; in Mendoza, Gabriela Figueroa; in San Martín de los Andres and Neuquén, Julián Sato; in Formoza, Julián González; and in Puerto Iguazú, Horacio Spallazani.
According to the form attached by the former directors of Radio Nacional, the current administration only signed 16 "artistic contracts", of the 127 that were last year . "That is to say, there are 111 families that will stop having this income. Lufrano said in his assumption that he wanted federal public media. This goes against what he said," they added.
Clarín tried to communicate with the new public media authorities, but there was no response. Anyway, a source close to the conduction of National Radio denied that there is a draft of the programming grid. "Only next Monday will the new programming be launched and there you will see what programs are produced from the provinces," said the official source. The original plan was to launch the new program on Monday, but there was no internal consensus and the authorities decided to postpone their presentation for a week, until next Monday, March 9.