The fierce battle for the audience has intensified this season and contains ingredients that make it more morbid and exciting. To begin with, the defenestration of the universe Save me last summer has led to Ana Rosa Quintana to leave the throne of the mornings, where he reigned for almost two decades, to confront his former employee and partner every afternoon, Sonsoles Onega, who beats his former boss every day. At Mediaset they argue that Sonsoles’ triumph is due to the shorter duration of its program since it does not have advertising breaks, apart from the fact that the average audience of the first Atresmedia channel is much higher than that of the Fuencarral network.
However, facing the gallery, the rivalry between the Planeta Prize winner and the veteran communicator is white glove, no exchange of blows between the two television stars has been heard in the media. On the contrary, Ana Rosa herself, in the interview he gave us a few weeks ago, praised Sonsoles and her professionalism, noting that she was good: “Otherwise I wouldn’t have hired her,” he told us. Likewise, Sonsoles Ónega, facing the public, shows her best side: “Ana Rosa always receives the highest praise from me,” she told us when we interviewed her days ago.
But television is spectacle and is more aesthetic than ethical, as they well know, and the composure maintained by Ana Rosa and Sonsoles hides behind the cameras a legitimate war to be leaders. “Not so legitimate,” says a Unicorn Content worker, who shoots at his ‘enemies’ And now Sonsoles. “This Monday we received two pieces of news in the worst style,” she accuses. “This weekend we gave two exclusives on Telecinco and they stole both of them without mentioning us,” repeats our source. “The separation of Chenoa and the reconciliation of Froilán,” she specifies.
As we have seen, Telecinco’s weekend show, produced by Ana Rosa Quintana’s company and presented by Emma García, gave these two pieces of news, both the supposed reconciliation of Infanta Elena’s son (and which has been denied) like Chenoa’s breakup, which left her with her urologist husband a year and a half after selling their wedding in Hola.
As reported by the source consulted by Informalia and we have reviewed when watching the Sonsoles program this Monday, both topics have been addressed in the Antena 3 evening magazine and, indeed, they have not cited the medium or the journalists who reported the two news items in Fiesta, the Unicorn magazine. To present the topics, which have been presented, debated and widely discussed, Sonsoles Ónega or, rather, his team, has cited Holaa magazine that confirmed the news reported by Omar Montes in Fiesta. The weekly itself, however, cited the program when it confirmed the scoop.
They did the same in the Sonsoles program, accused of “pirating” information from their competition, in the case of the alleged Froilán news: they used it as a means to support the information to Ten minutesa magazine that actually collected the information, but always citing Fiesta.
Regardless of the veracity of the exclusives, the origin of both is certainly the program Fiesta and in none of the cases did the Antena 3 space presented by Sonsoles Ónega mention either Omar Montes or Fiesta, space produced by Ana Rosa. The war behind the screens is sometimes more exciting than many of the stories shown in magazines that fight for a handful of viewers. A person from the Sonsoles program team, when told what happened, tells us: “They do that to us constantly.” We already know: ‘And your more…’.