After the brief transition of the radical Cordoban Javier Monte, who applied a strong adjustment in spending and spent less than two months at the head of Radio and Television Argentina (RTA),
the Government of Javier Milei decided to land with his own people
in the company he manages. Public TV and National Radio.
The RTA auditors appointed
Juan Parodi as executive director of Public TV
, replacing Claudio Martínez, who had resigned on December 10.
Parodi is the owner of the production company The Magic Eye, which made the series about Sandro, with Telefe, and the program Desordenados, on Public TV, during the Macrista administration.
And he was Director of Programming at América TV, a company from which the controller of RTA,
Diego Chaher
, a lawyer from Mendoza who replaced Rosario Lufrano and held managerial positions in different media outlets of Grupo América, of businessmen Daniel Vila, José Luis, also comes from. Manzano and Eduardo Eurnekian.
Parodi's appointment is the first important decision since the RTA auditors, Chaher and
Diego Marías
, a former Buenos Aires legislator from the PRO and current member of the Judicial Council, took office two weeks ago, representing the lawyers of the Federal Capital.
The auditors issued a joint resolution with the appointment of Parodi, who started his job last week and
occupies the same office where Claudio Martínez was previously
.
Parodi has already met with the main managers of all areas of Public TV and began to appoint his own people in some strategic sectors.
The main incorporation he made was that of
Fabián Gijon as News manager,
since since the end of January the area was headless due to the resignation of the News manager and deputy manager, who had been appointed in Alberto Fernández's management.
Gijon was executive producer of the La Nación+ channel
, until he resigned this week to assume his new position at Public TV, although his formal appointment will take some time, as occurs with all new officials of the current administration.
It is also in talks to add a new artistic manager, but its incorporation has not yet been confirmed.
And the budget for this year has not yet been approved, with which the new programming grid must be put together.
In any case,
the idea is to “make a quality screen” and “not politicize the content,”
sources close to the channel's new leadership
assured
Clarín .
And they added: “Parodi is a producer with a long history in television, he is not a lawyer who comes only to lower the channel's costs.”
The adjustment has already caused the
South American U-23 Pre-Olympic matches to be broadcast on Public TV
, which were played in Venezuela and where the Argentine team won a place for the Paris Olympic Games.
In addition, this year began with the suspension of traditional mobile phones on the Atlantic Coast and of
the midnight and weekend news programs on Public TV
, as well as a deep cut in the overtime hours of the channel's employees, in co-productions of programs and in the transmission of provincial Festivals.
A long journey
The new executive director of Public TV, Juan Parodi, had his first experience as executive producer on the state channel, when it was still called ATC, with
“La Red Deportiva”,
which at the end of the '90s was hosted by referee Guillermo Marconi and Then they went with that same program to Channel 9.
At that time, Parodi was in charge of the distribution of the production company's programs
Tournaments and Competitions.
He then became executive producer at the British Fremantle Media and made the leap to be
Director of Programming at América TV, between 2005 and 2007.
Later he was a production supervisor at Sony Pictures Television and
returned to Torneos
, as head of Scripted & Light Entertainment, where he was in charge of the Argentine production company's series and reality shows.
At the end of 2016, Parodi created his own production company, The Magic Eye, which among other products produced the program
Desordenados, hosted by Clemente Cancela, for Public TV
, during the Macrista administration of Horacio Levin;
and the series Sandro de América, whose 13 episodes were broadcast by Telefe in 2108, with 15 rating points, directed by Israel Adrián Caetano and can currently be seen on the free digital platform Cinear.Play, of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA). .