The media managed by lawyer K Franco Bindi entered into crisis, with the non-renewal of contracts that expired in the last three months, layoffs and voluntary retirements, which involved about
50 employees who worked mostly at Extra radio
and some also at the Extra TV channel.
Radio Extra (FM 107.5)
lifted all its programming at the beginning of the year
and, since then, has only played music.
It is a radio that
the lawyer Bindi had bought last year from Grupo Atlántida
(owner of Gente magazine), when it relaunched its programming with well-known figures,
under the direction of actor/comedian Fernando "Coco" Sily,
who already He is no longer there nor could he keep his program on that radio.
Nor are the programs that last year were headed by journalists
Diego Moranzoni
(from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.),
Tomás Méndez
(12 p.m. to 3 p.m.),
Ernestina Pais
(3 p.m. to 6 p.m.) and
Max Delupi
(6 p.m. to 8 p.m.), among others.
“We have to relaunch Extra radio, with a more journalistic profile,”
senior sources in the group linked to Bindi told
Clarín , who assured that there will be news soon.
However, two sources who work in Bindi's group highlighted to
Clarín
that the problems deepened last month, because the company that owns the
FM Extra radio station is MH&FG, which is registered in the name of Bindi's mother and her ex-partner. and ex-partner Giselle Robles
, with whom “the relationship ended very badly ,
”
said sources who are closely familiar with the breakup between the two.
There is also Extra TV
on Santa María de Oro 1850 street in Buenos Aires
, but the channel is in the name of the company
Mariv Media Partner, whose owner is Franco Bindi, with 90% of the shares
, along with two other minority partners who have the 10% remaining.
Separation and millionaire claim
Journalists from the Extra group told
Clarín
that the breakup between Bindi and Robles was “affective,” because
she accused him of having started a relationship with a libertarian national representative.
The insults that Robles dedicated to this libertarian leader were heard for several days on Extra.
And they are the cause of permanent comments among employees, which go beyond the private sphere, because it is
a corporate rupture between Bindi and Robles, but also because at the same time a change began in the editorial line
of the television channel, moving away from harsh Kirchnerism and approaching to the libertarian government.
"Franco is dating" her and "he will have to compensate me with a million-dollar sum," they heard Robles shout repeatedly on the radio, who also
launched irreproducible insults towards the libertarian deputy
and appeared to the employees distressed by the situation. .
But Bindi and the libertarian representative deny that relationship
, although they have known each other for a long time and would get along well.
Close to Bindi they assured
Clarín
that "nothing is happening between them."
In addition, they said that Giselle Robles was "never" his partner and that he is not with Luciana Salazar either, with whom some linked him because they are "very friends" and they even slipped that he could help the model write some tweets with political information.
Lawyer Franco Bindi claims to be "dating", but
with another person who protects his privacy
, because it is his private life.
The change in the Extra TV channel
In tune with the new times, the television channel Extra got rid of the controversial journalist
Tomás Méndez
, who was one of those who helped put together the programming last year.
This is a former Kirchnerist councilor from Córdoba, who became well known for organizing an escrache against Patricia Bullrich in 2021, for which he was fired from the K C5N channel;
and he also interviewed members of the "Banda de los Copitos" on his Crónica TV program in the days before the attack against Cristina Kirchner, in whose case
he was defended by lawyer Franco Bindi.
Uruguayan reporter Víctor Hugo Morales also left Extra TV, who was the channel's star journalist,
who had his inaugural debut on May 25 with Cristina Kirchner's act,
which he broadcast from the Cabildo.
“The contract expired and we did not reach a financial agreement for this year,” senior sources at the channel responded to
Clarín
.
Ultra journalist K Morales was replaced by sports journalist
Fernando Niembro
, a short-lived candidate for PRO deputy in 2015. Another who began working with his own program was journalist
Ari Paluch
, who airs every noon on Extra TV.
The launch of the channel, last July, had generated strong short circuits with C5N and Grupo Octubre, as they
competed for the Kirchnerist electorate.
For this reason, Víctor Hugo Morales had to change the name of his program;
while Grupo Octubre fired journalist Melina Fleiderman from the IP news channel for having joined Extra, which in turn later led to the resignation of the director of that news channel.
But
the electoral defeat of Unión por la Patria caused the beginning of a change in the editorial line
of Extra, which not only led to the incorporation of new figures, but also to the displacement of some who had been there since its launch, such as Méndez, Morales, Fleiderman, cameramen, costumers and even those who managed the Extra website,
whose news has not been updated since the beginning of the month.
The career of a lawyer, who became a media entrepreneur
Franco Bindi is informally linked to the Argentine and Venezuelan intelligence services, for whose government he worked as a lawyer for the
oil company PDVSA
.
And he is a lawyer
very close to former Bolivian president Evo Morales
, whom he always accompanies when he visits Argentina and stayed in his house for almost a year.
But he is also known for walking
the corridors of Comodoro Py
, carrying and bringing information and data for prosecutors or judges, which are of particular interest to a sector of the Argentine intelligence services.
Bindi and Robles were lawyers for Leonardo Fariña, between 2014 and 2016, but
then they went on to defend Lázaro Báez
in a case of trout invoices in Bahía Blanca and accused Fariña of having had a scripted statement to harm businessman K.
In her professional beginnings, Bindi worked at the Ministry of Planning, when its head was
Julio de Vido
, who debuted as a columnist on Extra TV and
sounds like one of the financiers of its media.
Two of his followers,
Guillermo Moreno and Santiago Cúneo
, have their own program on the channel.
Bindi also has a strong relationship with former spy
Allan Bogado
, who the then prosecutor of the AMIA case, Alberto Nisman, claimed was the link between Cristina Kirchner's government and the Iranian leaders in the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.
For this reason, Bindi appeared
"operating in the dark to defend Cristina's government for the Pact with Iran
, after the death of prosecutor Nisman," according to Héctor Gambini in Clarín, who pointed out that he was also an advisor to deputy Leopoldo Moreau and the governor of Santiago. Gerardo Zamora, as well as in the case of businessman
Pedro Etchebest
against Marcelo D'Alessio, the false lawyer who has been imprisoned for five years for leading an illicit association dedicated to extortion and illegal espionage.