Changes continue in public media.
Less than a week after taking over as general manager of Public Content, producer
Cristian Sedam abruptly resigned
from his position in the state company that manages the
Encuentro, Pakapaka and DeporTV channels
.
Official sources confirmed to
Clarín
the separation from Sedam, although they relativized it, assuring that the reason was an important job offer from a private sector company, "which was much more tempting."
To take over as head of Public Contents, Cristian Sedam
had resigned as director of Jotax
, the production company controlled by Grupo América, where he spent ten years and produced Animales Sueltos, the series led by Alejandro Fantino.
For this reason, internal sources of Public Contents, who are critical of the official management, said that Sedam's resignation was because he refused to make a strong adjustment in expenses, as demanded by the auditors of the public media,
Diego Chaher
and
Diego Marias
.
The thing is that this adjustment was already made by the former management of the radical director
Javier Monte at Radio y Televisión Argentina (RTA),
the company that manages Radio Nacional and Public TV, until he was displaced at the beginning of the month by the intervention of Chaher and Marías.
And then they appointed
Juan Parodi and Héctor Cavallero
as executive directors of Public TV and National Radio, respectively, two producers with extensive experience.
But in Télam and Public Contents there is still
the same number of employees and salaries
as during the government of Alberto Fernández, due to the delay in appointing authorities at the head of both state companies.
In fact, to Sedam's resignation from the company that manages Encuentro, Pakapaka and DeporTV, it is added that
in Télam they have not yet appointed anyone
to take charge of the daily management of the news agency.
In the state news agency, several of the officials who come from Bernarda Llorente's K management continue in their positions, although she was replaced by Chaher and Marías, two lawyers who are
not involved in the artistic or journalistic management
of the companies intervened by Javier Milei's Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse.
They plan to close Télam
Last Sunday, journalist Santiago Fioriti anticipated in
Clarín that Milei could soon announce the closure of Télam
and that he urged controller Chaher to implement that decision.
"We are looking for a legal mechanism to do it now," they told Fioriti.
"We have to find a way to be able to do it
and not have Justice block us from that decision,"
the controller Chaher told his closest circle, who is working in that direction.
Chaher is a Mendoza lawyer specialized in finding legal formulas for the decisions made by shareholders, as he did
for two decades at Grupo América
, where he was Legal Affairs Manager of the company of Daniel Vila, José Luis Manzano, Daniel Hochbaum and Claudio Belocopitt (Eduardo Eurnekian was also there before, who was head of Posse and Milei for several years).
The frustrated experience of the Macri administration
still hovers over Chaher ,
when Rodolfo Pousá fired 354 Télam employees, 40% of its staff, in 2018, causing a strong union conflict, which included the seizure of its buildings and claims in court. labor, which later led to the reinstatement of a large part of those employees, so that the agency now has only 100 fewer employees than before these layoffs.
"We are not going to make that mistake,"
the auditors of Télam, RTA and Public Contents swear.