Without a doubt, the best decision of the new heads of Mediaset after the departure of Paolo Vasile has been the choice of the TVE journalist Carlos Franganillo to replace the irreplaceable Pedro Piqueras, who has earned a very generous retirement. We must also praise the success of those responsible for the Public Corporation when choosing the Asturian's successor, the former correspondent of the house in Brussels, Marta Carazo, whose professional solvency is at least on par with his rivals and friends. The audience is not the main objective in this battle of giants, at least not in the case of the public channel. In any case, it is taken for granted that, at least in the short term, the undisputed leader will continue to be Vallés, at least as long as he has the support of A word of mouth and be in a group that presents a clear project.
The victory in the big information night this Monday went, as usual in the last three years, to Antena 3 News 2 (19% share and 2,585,000). Vicente Vallés made the newscast the most watched of the day, achieved its most followed news in the last two months and swept Carlos Franganillo by 8 points (and the other new journalist, Marta Carazo, by 8.3). Telecinco News 21 hours (which actually starts three or four minutes after nine) changed his face and obtained a small reward: 11.5% and 1,559,000 viewers for Franganillo represent the best data for the news program in no more and no less than eleven months. He Newscast 2, for its part, premiered with the bronze medal after remaining above the average for TVE's La 1: 10.7% and 1,469,000 viewers. It could be understood that the novelty effect or curiosity did not benefit the man from Oviedo. Nor does Vallés start at 9 p.m.: its news program starts taking advantage of the colossal drag of Pass word, almost nine minutes past eight at night. Only Marta Carazo enters like clockwork on the hour.
In the case of Franganillo there are new features compared to the stage that Piqueras closed: the set is visibly more modern, the “patent leather” floor and the vertical screens give it an imposing appearance, and Franganillo's positions are more varied and less static. All invented and put into practice by Atresmedia almost a decade ago, aspects that TVE already copied in its day. As for the tone, Vallés editorializes and ponders the national brawl, with which he opens, and maintains it for many minutes with the contradictions of Pedro Sánchez or Junts. It is true that Vallés, a great expert on US issues, author of magnificent publications, nails it when, at the time, he alludes to international news such as the Iowa Republican primaries, where Trump devastated his rivals.
Franganilo and his network have shown themselves to be more neutral, to give less opinions, but, without mentioning which ideological side the presenter or other professionals deviate from, the mere fact of reading this or that news, of dedicating more or less time to it, of placing it in this or that order, or of illustrating it with this or that image, means that no one can offer unassailable objectivity.
Carazo also flees from the national brawl, to which he gives less space and preponderance than Vallés. Franganillo's successor already said days ago that she in Brussels realized that most of the information that concerns us here is irrelevant, it has no real importance or significance. Come on, we are a people. And he's kind of right, really. Furthermore, she is not primarily concerned about the audience. Another thing is to praise the choice of a woman to compete against two men, as the undisputed leader, not as a co-presenter. On the other hand, perhaps it is not competitive to stand on a set and have Anna Bosch and Lorenzo Milá sit for ten minutes (that's saying something).
Franganillo debuts with five live connections, three of them international
“Carlos Franganillo is going to be lucky that the new CEO, Alessandro Salem, He wants to invest and is already doing so to make a great set, provide more resources and hire people. That which I had not had.” With these words Pedro Piqueras announced that his replacement was going to have more resources, as was evident this Monday. Franganillo stood up to open the Telecinco news program at 9:04 p.m. with a staging and technical resources very similar to those used at TVE.
The Madrid journalist, after 2 minutes of headlines, spoke of the political tension between PSOE and Junts due to the management of immigration by Catalonia, and also addressed the primaries of the Republican Party of the United States or the special CIS on matters of Equality. Franganillo used 35.54 minutes in its premiere, who barely invested 3 minutes in national politics, giving voice to the statements of PSOE, Junts per Catalunya and, later, to the opinion that Alberto Núñez Feijóo had expressed at an informative breakfast.
The change in News telecinco This was evidenced by the multiple live connections: Virginia Mayoral was stationed in Congress to talk about the previous meeting between socialists and post-convergents this Wednesday, Iñaki Aguado in Davos to talk about the economic forum, Dori Toribio in Iowa to report on the start of the elections. Republican primaries in which Donald Trump is the favorite, Nuria Fresnesa from Oleiros to tell the situation of the pellets in Galicia, and Ainhoa Paredes told the details of the volcano that worries Iceland.
In addition, Franganillo had Bricio Serrano as support on set to talk about the North American primaries and interviewed a lawyer expert in Digital Law, Borja Adsuara, who analyzed the imminent government barriers to access pornography in the case of minors. Finally, the presenter winked at Piqueras, promised to “be up to the task” and ended loudly: “We want them to choose us and demand of us.”
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Marta Carazo confirmed, after showing her professionalism as a correspondent from Brussels, which is a number one. This Monday it started on time (9:00 p.m.), had the longest headlines (almost three minutes) and presented the longest news program (43.47, since the sports block, unlike its competitors, is still integrated).
The presenter only dedicated three and a half minutes to national politics, since the bet of the new stage of the Newscast was to make a special on the 'Electoral Super Year' at a global level of almost 30 minutes that featured the already mentioned and perhaps excessive presence on set of Anna Bosch and Lorenzo Milá.
The public one, since he had connected with Raquel González from Davos (Switzerland) already Almudena Ariza from Jerusalem (Israel), he exhibited international muscle thanks to connections and videos with Cristina Olea (United States), José Manuel Fernández (Belgium), Anna Bosch (Netherlands), Diego Arizpeleta (United Kingdom), Lara Prieto (Russia) , Óscar Mijallo (Ukraine), Yolanda Álvarez (Taiwan) and José Antonio Guardiola (Guatemala).
Vallés, a lot of national politics
Vallés, as we said, was the one that took the longest to wait (9:07 p.m.), since with this strategy Antena 3 manages to make its news take advantage of the drag effect of Pasapalabra, key to the reign of Pedro Piqueras for more than a decade and, without subtracting an iota of merit to Atresmedia's information services and the personal worth of the great Vicente, the format is an essential opening act to understand the leadership of Antena 3 News 2. The presenter was the briefest (30.10), gave way to the shortest headlines (less than a minute and a half) and the most generous in addressing national politics, 9 minutes to report on PSOE, Junts, PP, Sumar, Podemos or Vox . Vallés reveled in what he calls the “populist left”, Sumar and Podemos, and joked with some words from Yolanda Díaz, who in Espejo Público stated that mothers from the school where her daughter goes and taxi drivers had shown her their anger with the purple ones. for overturning his decree. Effective joke. This has only been the first day.