This
weekend the
Public TV news program, hosted by
Daniel López, Silvia Fernández and Diana Zurco
, will not appear .
That broadcast will no longer appear during the current administration, which is also analyzing soon lifting the midnight news that airs during the week.
The Government also decided not to renew the contract with Cocineros Argentinos, which expires at the end of the month and was the only outsourced program that had been saved from the pruning that Public TV made at the beginning of the year, when it decided not to renew the contracts this year. the daily strips hosted by Ernestina Pais (Mañanas Públicas), Coco Silly (Noches de Mente) and Luli Trujllo and Pablo Caruso (Desiguales).
Cocineros Argentinos , the channel's emblematic program, had started its
sixteenth season
at the beginning of the year
, with a sharp cut in the budget approved for this year.
But the new management led by the RTA controller,
Diego Chaher
, and the executive director of Public TV,
Juan Parodi
, decided not to renew the contract of the Kapow production company.
The end of
Cocineros
shows the
end of a system of outsourcing
of Public TV programs, which was massively implemented in the management of Rosario Lufrano, where
million-dollar agreements
with private production companies that made television programs multiplied.
Other programs that will be discontinued
In addition, it was decided at the end of the month to launch
the magazine "En Casa"
, on topics of health, nutrition, prevention and lifestyle, hosted by
Natalia Paratore and Gabriela Previtera
.
And also a program that was launched two months ago, during the provisional management of the radical Javier Monte:
"Más de vos"
, hosted by
Daniela Niremberg
, which had a wide media coverage, because it is dedicated to people who love dogs,
like president Javier Milei.
Sources close to the Government told
Clarín
that they are measures that seek to
"reduce the budget" and "reduce the deficit"
inherited from Lufrano's management, when he was in charge of Radio and Television Argentina (RTA), the company that manages Radio Nacional and Public TV, which in 2023
had skyrocketed above $20,000 million.
The year started with the
suspension of traditional mobile phones on the Atlantic Coast
, as well as a deep cut in overtime for channel employees, in program co-productions and in the transmission of provincial Festivals.
An adjustment plan that included the
non-renewal of 500 contracts of employees at Radio Nacional
and of the directors who resigned there, as reported by
Clarín
.
The current management at RTA is headed by the controller Chaher, with Parodi on Public TV and Héctor Cavallero on National Radio.
Prior to them, there was a brief two-month interregnum of the radical director Javier Monte, who was elected by the RTA Board of Directors when Lufrano and Osvaldo Santoro resigned on December 10.
In addition to Parodi, during the last month Fabián Gijon
landed at Public TV
, as News Manager;
Rafael Dibello
, Production Manager;
and
Leonardo Cole
, as artistic manager.