Exhausted by the procés: TV-3 reduces the political content in its programming

The renewed Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation (CCMA) intends to shake up TV-3's programming for the new season.

The channel's acting director, Sigfrid Gras, already announced a few weeks ago that a "depoliticization" of the content of Catalan public television was on the way.

The announcement was the epitaph of the

.

The space that for five seasons has occupied on Saturday night has been losing steam in parallel to the puncture suffered by the

.

Despite the fact that the team of professionals managed to obtain current testimonies, in recent weeks interviews have been broadcast with Josep Pujol Ferrusola, José Manuel Villarejo, the Nobel Prize winner for Medicine David Julius or the linguist Maria Carme Junyent, the affinity of the line An editorial with the most excited theses of the independence movement often placed the program at the center of the controversy.

Even more so with the protagonism reserved for the talk show host Pilar Rahola, speaker of the postulates of Junts per Catalunya.

Fading the enthusiastic climate that ensued after the 1-O referendum, and with the departure of Vicent Sanchis from the direction of regional television, the new leadership has proposed to turn the content menu around and prevent the leak from worsening of spectators.

"Entertainment" is the concept set to redirect the course of TV-3, and it is intended to reserve the policy for the news.

A survey published by the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO) of the Generalitat at the beginning of the year highlighted that six out of 10 Catalans think that the "Government must manage the public services that are within its competence" as opposed to those that they believe that "it should try to solve the political problem between Catalonia and Spain", which represents 37.5%.

The CCMA, the entity that manages Catalan public television and radio, was renewed in January after an agreement between Junts, Esquerra and the PSC.

The new managers, with Rosa Romà at the helm, take note of the change in interests.

Even at the risk of exercising direct competition over political bets made by the same house on 3/24, the corporation works with the possibility of broadcasting a

on TV-3 at night.

slot

will remain in the hands of Ricard Ustrell.

The 31-year-old journalist, who was the first presenter of

, before Laura Rosel and Cristina Puig, will direct an entertainment space on Saturdays, with interviews and live performances.

His new role takes him away from the

.

The reins of this program are taken by Agnès Marquès, who returns to television after a stint on RAC1, and Maiol Roger.

Both will co-direct

which will be broadcast now in the afternoon, as part of a transaction that repositions

by Helena García Melero at noon.

Earlier, first thing in the morning, Ariadna Oltra will present

.

In a statement, the CCMA has highlighted this Wednesday that the redesign supposes "a first level feminine bet".

In addition, Lídia Heredia will be the new TV-3 correspondent in Washington, a position that Xesco Reverter has held since 2017.

This Friday, in the control commission of the CCMA, several groups plan to question the president of the

Rosa Romà about the changes in the programming.

Some changes that could be even more profound, given the mistrust generated among some of the new members of the CCMA by spaces of supposed current news such as

.

The program presented by Toni Soler, and produced by his company Minoria Absoluta, was denounced by the Public Prosecutor's Office for a gag in which the Mossos d'Esquadra were compared to “fucking dogs”.

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