Peronist Kirchnerism is preparing to launch a new television channel on May 25, led by
lawyer Franco Bindi
, owner of an FM radio station and informally linked to Venezuelan intelligence services.
The highlight of Channel 4 Extra is the journalist and rapporteur
Víctor Hugo Morales
, who will have an hour a day, Monday through Friday, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at the same time he had on C5N until his scandalous separation, last March.
Víctor Hugo Morales, who made several programs for the Chavista network Telesur, plans to return to television with the same scheme that he had on the channel of the Kirchner businessmen Cristóbal López and Fabián de Sousa, with his classic one-hour editorials
.
According to sources close to Canal 4 Extra,
the presence of Victor Hugo would have had a high monetary cost,
but his presence would serve as a "flag" to convince other figures to join the channel and install the new station among the followers of a Chavista Peronism especially in an election year.
The content direction of Channel 4 Extra belongs to the
controversial journalist Tomás Méndez
, who already works at Radio Extra FM 107.5 -also from Bindi, although his mother and his partner Giselle Robles appear on the papers.
Méndez for now selects the journalists and drivers who will accompany him in the new K media venture,
until they find a director
to take charge of the entire channel.
And he will have his DNA program, from Monday to Friday at 8:00 p.m.
The Canal 4 Extra project is handled in the most absolute secrecy.
But it intends to take the place of a "Peronist Chavista nationalism", close to what was the "Kirchnerism of Néstor Kirchner" and
"a Chavista look at international reality, close to Russia, Cuba and Venezuela"
, said a source who follows near the launch of the TV channel.
The scoop was given by the journalist
Marina Calabró
, in Jorge Lanata's program, on Radio Miter (from
Grupo Clarín
), where she told that the studios located in Palermo are being assembled in the place where Radio Extra now operates.
"The studios are being assembled at Fray Justo Santa María de Oro 1850, in Palermo. The work is advancing rapidly, with two TV studios and another streaming studio, on the ground floor, next to the radio," said a linked source. to channel.
And he added: "They say that the plan is to be on the air on May 25, but
we deal with the date of the week of May 20.
"
In any case, that date could be delayed a few more days, because they are still finishing the work in the studios, several journalists have yet to be confirmed and
the rehearsals for each program have not been done.
Bindi and Méndez
are the ones who manage the hiring of journalists and well-known TV figures to join the project, which would have
16 hours of live programming, from 6 in the morning to 10 p.m.,
and then the programs would be repeated, as well as on weekends, where they evaluate passing on some cans of international content linked to regional Chavismo, the conflicts in the Middle East -with an anti-Israeli perspective- and the war between Russia and Ukraine, with a pro-Russian perspective.
Some of the television figures that have already confirmed their participation in the Extra channel are the meteorologist
Jopo Angely
, from C5N, which will start from 6 to 7 in the morning.
Then there would be a relaxed magazine by the humorist
Pachu Peña
.
And Bindi and Méndez are trying to convince
Sergio Goycochea
, from Public TV, to complete the channel's morning, an
Extra source assured
Clarín .
The militant journalists
Lourdes Zuazo, Walter Goobar, Sebastián Salgado and Ezequiel Orlando
will also be present .
And these days they are trying to add more journalists from C5N, El Destape and the public media to complete the programming schedule, such as
Nancy Pazos and Goycochea
, with whom they are negotiating if they join the new television channel.
The comedian
Coco Sily,
who has her program on Public TV, will also be part of Channel 4 Extra.
He has also worked at Radio Extra since March, as its director and host of a program from 9 to 12 in the morning.
The programming of FM Radio Extra, by Franco Bindi.
Radio Extra was the station for Gente magazine, from Editorial Atlántida, and it was called Gente Radio Visión.
But this year it passed into the hands of the lawyer Franco Bindi,
who in March changed the programming with the aim of creating a multimedia.
In fact, Coco Sily, Méndez himself (12 to 3 p.m.), Diego Moranzoni (6 to 9 a.m.), Ernestina Pais (3 to 6 p.m.) and Max Delupi (6 to 8 p.m.) already
have their programs on Radio Extra.
)
, among others, some of which could be added to the new television channel Extra.
The mysterious lawyer who owns the channel
Franco Bindi, who does not like having his photos taken, is the owner and financier of Radio Extra and the new television channel
.
He is very close to Venezuelan Chavismo and, for this reason, he worked in several cases as a lawyer for his oil company PDVSA.
He was also a lawyer for Leonardo Fariña and businessman K Lázaro Báez;
and in his professional beginnings he worked in the Ministry of Planning, when his head was Julio de Vido.
Former Cordovan councilor Tomás Méndez was fired from C5N
two years ago for an escrache he organized against Patricia Bullrich, at the door of his house.
He previously spread false reports accusing "concentrated US and Israeli economic groups" of promoting the creation of the coronavirus in laboratories.
And his latest scandal was when last year he interviewed Brenda Uliarte, from the Gang of Copitos, on Crónica TV, before she participated in the attack on Vice President Cristina Kirchner.
"Méndez's lawyer is Franco Bindi,
who was an active lawyer in Operation Puf, in the failed maneuver to remove Judge Sebastián Casanello from the Dinero K case, linked to Lázaro Báez and public works, and to the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA, in whose name he accompanied a Chavista diplomat considered a member of Venezuelan espionage to Paraguay," wrote journalist
Joaquín Morales Solá
, last September in the newspaper La Nación, about the owner of the new television channel Extra.
In 2013, the lawyer Franco Bindi was a fugitive from justice for two years.
At the end of 2021, the National Communications Entity (ENACOM) issued Resolution No. 1824
obliging cable and satellite TV operators to broadcast Channel 4
throughout the Argentine territory, in the news channel segment.
On that occasion, no one understood why this regulation was approved, for the benefit of the Mariv Media Partner company, whose television channel did not accredit 24-hour programming.
But soon after that move became clear, when Franco Bindi kept 90% of Mariv Media Partner and launched a project that will soon be on the air, led by Tomás Méndez and well-known television figures.
At Santa María de Oro 1850, the companies Mariv Media Partner
, owner of the television channel Extra, in Bindi's name, and
MH&FG
, owned by Giselle Laura Robles and Bindi's mother, who have Radio Extra under their name, are
located .
Bindi and Robles are the former lawyers of Leonardo Fariña, between 2014 and 2016, but who later went on to defend Lázaro Báez
in a case of trout bills in Bahía Blanca
and they accused Fariña of having made a scripted statement to harm businessman K.
While most of the traditional media are suffering from the economic crisis,
the launch of Channel 4 Extra, which was preceded by FM Radio Extra, is part of an expansion of the K media friendpoly
, led by businessmen, journalists and lawyers close to to the government of Alberto Fernández, Cristina Kirchner and Sergio Massa, as well as their allies, with abundant financing to buy, create and launch media that replicate the Kirchnerist story, as well as to align traditional media that have serious financial problems to stay afloat .
It is a bet to have several powerful voices linked to Kirchnerism during this election year
, in a space where C5N, Radio 10, Radio del Plata, La990, Página/12, AM750, the Navarro media (El Destape and Radio El Mundo), the IP news network, Channel 9, the FM of Grupo Octubre (of Víctor Santa María), Ámbito Financiero, Futurock, the AM of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Télam, Public TV and Radio Nacional, among others, in addition to the media close to Massa, such as A24, Radio La Red, El Cronista and América TV.
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