It is not Lionel Messi, nor
Julián Álvarez
nor
Enzo Fernández
, but something is related to them.
The videos that show the
"boys"
as children sharing
the dream of playing in a World Cup
have something of those old newspaper clippings in which it is read that, many years ago, Dominique Metzger dreamed of
Telenoche
.
It was his World Cup
From her.
And, now, without the black cape or the captain's ribbon,
he raises it with no more arrogance than that of work
.
That one that led her to step on each one of the tiles of her journalistic path: she began answering a phone in
Breakfast
(the first morning newscast on TV, produced by her father) and
continued standing on each step, without skip not
one
Because his thing was to advance - little by little, but it was - forward and upwards.
And that girl who was fascinated by seeing Mónica Cahen D'Anvers pulling the strings of what was -for decades-
the best Argentine newscast
like nobody else now occupies her chair.
She is officially the new host of
Telenoche
along with
Nelson Castro
(at 8:00 p.m., on El Trece).
Metzger arrives at the channel between 11:30 and 12 and leaves at 22:30.
He drives on cable and on open TV.
Photo: Juan Manuel Foglia.
And yet, it continues to be -or at least it is perceived-
that type of people who touches their sky with their hands, but worries about not taking their feet off the ground
.
The simplicity, the humor at hand, the simple language, the search to shorten the distance between the news and the viewer
make it close
.
In
the antipodes of the engolado style
, she explains that “it comes out to me to be fresh, natural, I don't know, it won't distance me.
I am also public and I like to be informed clearly, understand.
I hate solemnity
.
You can be credible, serious and reliable also from colloquiality”.
The new duo of the program that Mónica inaugurated on January 3, 1966, together with Tomás Eloy Martínez and Andrés Percivale, was tested as a replacement couple during the holidays, but
before the final departure of Diego Leuco and Luciana Geuna
, they were left on the court , in
a sort of continuity without a launch party
.
Nelson & Dominique
The good chemistry is noticeable, enhanced by the difference in styles
and trajectory.
In them there is a doctor and a chef
.
There are two journalists who seek to win back an audience that found
the best newscast on
Telenoche .
Not in vain did
Martín Fierro win 15
.
And he took the Gold statuette in 2000.
-Hopefully they don't become those couples who fight on camera to see who gets the last sandwich.
-No, that will not happen, we play for the same team.
That one more,
something that I love came out along the way and I asked Nelson to stay forever
.
I tell the air to close with a phrase of his:
"We leave with good humor and sportsmanship
. "
Daughter of
Eduardo Metzger
-historical television producer- and
María Cristina González
-former hiring manager at Channel 9 and the old Channel 11-, she
grew up in the halls of the channels, spying behind the scenes
, sharing tables with friends like Mónica, "my idol"
César Mascetti, along with Dominique Metzger and her sister Mariana.
The family album that one of her sisters generously shares
finds them walking with Mónica and César
, for example.
A few days before this note with
Clarín
, Dominique called her on the phone.
And, from his affective bunker in San Pedro - where he
mourns after the death of his partner
, in every sense of the word - he told her “that she was very happy, that she congratulated me.
That she liked the couple, that we are serious people on a professional level, but
she knew that we were going to put a smile on Telenoche again
.
This marked me a lot: that, in addition to informing,
you should not forget to make people smile
”.
Although there is a record - video provided by the Metzgers to this newspaper - of
the first steps that little Domi took at a family party
, with a microphone in hand,
it was not in her initial plans to work on television
.
As a girl she said that, when she grew up,
"she would be an ambassador of the world"
.
She then
trained as a chef
and finally entered
Breakfast
, but not as a culinary columnist, although the title of the cycle invited to put on the apron.
Behind the camera,
she felt the need to study journalism
and studied at TEA.
alone in the early morning
Already with her more defined North,
15 years ago she entered TN
, in a strip that did not look optimal, but for her it was the best.
She was to work from what she wanted and from what she knew
.
He made his debut on January 1, 2008,
covering the early morning on the street, from 0 to 7
: “I entered as a substitute mobile worker, in
a somewhat hostile task, with crashes, fires, transport stoppages, insecurity
, but I could not refuse. because I believe that opportunities must be seized.
If I asked for another shift, I was afraid they wouldn't call me anymore.
And from then on
everything was step by step and beautiful
”.
Far from those who speak of their own paths as lucky breaks or surprise blessings, he acknowledges that “
I didn't have a meteoric rise, mine was always pick and shovel, and repetition
.
I spent a year and a half in that schedule and I thought that no one in the middle was going to see my work, that I wouldn't have a chance to be tested in something else.
-And what did you want, exactly?
-He had no pretense of appearing, only to see what he did more.
My deepest desire was to reach Telenoche
.
And, after two years, one day I arrived.
-Was it the coverage of your life?
-Not exactly, but I
was giving the report of my life and I don't forget it anymore
.
They sent me to the Hudson Turnpike, I think it was a long weekend.
It reported how many cars passed
by per minute.
- Were you loose like now?
No, but it didn't turn out that bad.
What happens is that I wrote down everything and leaned on my papers to have more security.
They told me
"air"
and I sent myself.
At that time, the newscast was hosted by
María Laura Santillán and Santo Biasatti
.
He confesses, with his mind set on that note, that “perhaps I could have done a little better, but no one will ever take away the happiness I had that day.
It was being on the show that I had watched my whole life
.”
Know how to wait, to make the jump
And, 13 years after that debut,
now it's his turn to share the driving reins
.
He knows that Telenoche
is no longer what it used to be
, but that he can calmly be that again: “He goes through difficult times, with which I experience this as a huge challenge.
The intention is for him to recover the place he had among the people
.
It was always journalistic excellence.”
She admits feeling “revolutionized.
And the call was a surprise.
Because, in addition, I was thinking about that maxim that says that
'Whoever makes replacements is never a starter'
.
And I spent several summers
as a couple with Fede Wiemeyer
”.
As if watching her work on a monitor, she describes her style as “
natural, fresh, without cassette, very close to the people
.
And one of my virtues may go through there, due to the fact that
I don't tell you as 'the one on TV' would tell you, but as someone you know
.
Therefore, what I could never do is imposter.
I speak and I show myself as I am.
And
in that I feel very Monica
”.
-And what would be the conceptual portrait of Nelson?
-Nelson is a super affectionate guy, he takes great care of the other.
And he does it in a very genuine way.
He is such a great team player that you don't need to be telling his story about
him.
He listens a lot, engages, and reports with unique clarity and depth.
He is one more.
And if he has to go to the corner, or wherever, with a cell phone he goes without drama.
Huge partner.
Neither of them is in divo
and that adds up.
-They do not handle the same kind of humor, right?
-No, but we are finding the way back to the meeting point.
I bite it a little bit and it immediately grabs all of them
.
And he's not one to take offense if I tell him anything.
-Anything, like what?
-Put it on, the other day we were talking about the wife of a player who danced in the carnival and I said that
I didn't understand where the shell was
holding onto, because did you see that it doesn't have band-aids on its side?
And he held up the glove very well and said
"That's called the buttock line
. "
And that moment was great.
From Devotee to Qatar, and return with a prize
Dominique Metzger in the coverage of Bariloche taken by the ashes.
Among his coverage that left a mark on TN and
Telenoche
are that of the ashes in Bariloche, that of the town in Junín when he received a stone in the face (2013), that of the Oscars in 2017 and the coolest, from
the streets and the stadiums in Qatar, during the World Cup that the Argentine National Team won
: "That trip was wonderful, fun, intense, with a lot of group work."
-And, when you came back, you had a prize...
-They told me about driving
Telenoche
with Nelson, but I took it as one more substitution.
And then I heard a
"we want to see what happens"
and here we are, in glory.
Dominique attacked in the town of Junín, 10 years ago.
He is no longer on Continental radio, which is why he is now divided into two jobs: from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. he hosts
Nuestra tarde
, on TN, and from 8:00 to 9:15 p.m.,
Telenoche
.
“I spend it on the channel and I admit that I love it.
TV is a very comfortable place for me, it's as if I were safe
, ”says she who arrives between 11:30 and 12 and leaves at 10:30 pm for her apartment in Devoto, near her family.
Television woman,
her first contact of the day with current affairs is through her cell phone
, watching the news portals, and then, yes, “a little bit of TV”.
Knowing that she will later have "a lot of TV" from within.
Monica's word
Mónica, César and the Metzgers (Dominique between Mascetti and her father), navigating the Paraná.
Your phone returns praise and congratulations on your new role.
And she refreshes an appointment with her father for these days:
"He told me to get together to tell me a few things about how he sees me... I'll tell you later," she
promises relaxed, knowing that what she will tell him will be from the knowledge of the facts.
At this point in the talk, he remembers a little bit of the conversation he had with Mónica recently: “He told me that he wished me the best and
that I knew that El Tata
(
César Mascetti
, who died in 2022), from above,
was going to help us .
be watching
”.
After
that silence imposed by emotion pointing to the soul
, Dominique adds that "surely
my dear Edgar will
also be there ."
She talks about Edgardo Antoñana (he died in 2017), with whom she put together one of the best duos in TN.
In that morning segment of the weekends, he began to display his range of tools, his relaxed way, his capacity for empathy and -
without wanting it, but wanting it, which is not the same
- he built his runway to reach
the chair in which, more than 30 years ago, her friend Mónica could have made upa
.
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