The role of Juan Cruz Ávila in the government of Javier Milei is a myth that grows in intensity as time passes, to the point that the host
Alejandro Fantino came out to clarify that he no longer had any relationship
with the current person responsible for the programming of the ESPN and La Nación+ channels.
The truth is that Ávila has a good relationship with President Milei,
with whom he shared a long dinner at the house of journalist Eduardo Feinmann
a few days before he took office as President.
And he is one of the main managers of the interviews done with him and his ministers in La Nación +, where he is his Programming Director.
"Juan Cruz Ávila gains prominence in the Milei government,
where he managed to have several of his collaborators appointed these days to Public TV,"
a high-ranking source from the public media, who is critical of the current administration, assured
Clarín .
And he added: "Now it could also land on Public Contents", the company that manages the Encuentro, Pakapaka and DeporTV channels.
The first important appointment at Public TV was that of its executive director Juan Parodi, which
Clarín
reported last week, a producer who worked many years ago with Ávila, when both were at América TV.
"But I have nothing to do with Parodi,
we haven't worked together for many years," Ávila clarified to Clarín.
Now the appointments of Fabián Gijón and Rafael Dibello
, News and Production managers of Public TV, have been added,
"who are both very close to Ávila," a high source from the public media, who is critical of the director, assured Clarín. of La Nación+ Programming.
Gijón resigned as executive producer of La Nación+, to take over as head of Public TV News management.
And Dibello was executive producer of
Jotax, the production company created by Ávila
, which several years ago sold it to the group of Daniel Vila, one of the owners of América TV, where Diego Chaher, the controller of Radio and Television Argentina (RTA), comes from. ), the company that manages Public TV and National Radio.
However, Ávila denied that link with the two new officials of Public TV.
"Gijón was a producer at La Nación +, with whom I had little relationship. And Dibello was in Jotax, the production company that I sold in 2016," he assured
Clarín
.
Everything indicates that in the coming days
Cristian Sedam will take over as general manager of Public Contents
, the company that manages the Encuentro, Pakapaka and DeporTV channels.
Sedam is executive producer and director of Jotax, the production company from which he produced
Animales Sueltos, on América TV, hosted by Alejandro Fantino.
For this reason, Fantino came out to distance himself from these movements.
"I have nothing to do with Juan Cruz Ávila. Nothing.
If he is putting people in the public media, if he puts Juan Parodi in it,
if Juan Parodi is his, if another is his, if the dusty dwarf is his He, I don't know. I haven't worked with Ávila for 10 years. I met at ESPN for a little while and then, thank God, I left and this was born," highlighted the former host of Animales Sueltos, on his Neura radio station.
And he added: "I am not going to work with Ávila, wherever Ávila is I am not going to work.
I have nothing to do with Ávila or with those that Ávila places in the State
," Fantino assured.
Ávila's relationship with Milei
Juan Cruz Ávila shared a long dinner with Milei at the house of journalist Eduardo Feinmann, at the beginning of December, a few days before assuming the Presidency, where
former president Mauricio Macri and all his partners also attended.
That meeting lasted three and a half hours.
And there
Macri and Milei talked about "the challenges" that the future government was going to have
.
But it is unknown what topics of interest Feinmann and Ávila contributed there.
"It was just a social meeting," Ávila minimized to
Clarín
.
A source from the sector
assured that Ávila advises Milei on communication issues.
And for that reason, he "managed to appoint three journalists from La Nación + to the entire front line of the Communication Secretariat: Eduardo Serenellini, Manuel Adorni and Javier Lanari."
But Ávila denied that he advised Milei and
attributed it to a myth that is growing more and more.
"The Government removes three journalists from the channel and they attribute that to me, it is unusual," highlighted the Director of Programming of La Nación+.
And he added to Clarín that he does not even have "a close relationship" with Serenellini, Adorni or Lanari.
"I have been working in the media for 30 years, so I know many people in the sector, but I have nothing to do with the officials of the Ministry of Communication or with the public media.
I have no influence there," Ávila clarified to Clarion.
Although he acknowledged that this myth has already caused him to receive several proposals from people who contacted him because they want to join the government and the public media.