The new Mediaset of Alessandro Salem, In full renovation, it already has a new manager for its Information Services and in the next few hours the network will confirm the journalist in the position. Francisco Moreno García (Ronda, Málaga, February 4, 1964), who is currently sole administrator of Radiotelevisión Canaria (RTVC) and First Vice President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was also twice president of FORTA.
Until now, the position of head of the group’s News area was in the hands of Juan Pedro Valentín, who is, according to what has been published, preparing the relaunch of Noticias Cuatro, once the listed company has decided to close the digital portal Nius and transfer many of the journalists who work there to Cuatro. Our sources assure that the chain has Juan Pedro Valentín.
Pedro Piqueras, who turned 68 in May, directs Telecinco’s news, and in the media his departure is assumed to be a given in the near future.
The current sole Administrator of RTVC had been in charge of public radio and television in his second stage since October 2019, when he was elected with the parliamentary support of five of the six forces represented in the Canary Islands Chamber: PSOE, CC, PP, UP, NC , ASG.
He has carried out News Management tasks at TVE-Canarias and Antena 3, and has combined this with general executive management tasks at RTVC and Editorial Prensa Ibérica, as Director of their Audiovisual Area. Professor of Communication at the Next Business International School. He is currently First Vice President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was a Talent Award winner in 2009 from the TV Academy. On the occasion of the news coverage of the eruption of the La Palma Volcano, the network he directs won the 2021 National Television Award, and other recognitions such as the Ondas, the Iris América or the one awarded by the APM.
The current sole administrator of Radiotelevisión Canaria (RTVC) is from Ronda by birth but “very Canarian”, as confirmed by those around him, since he has been linked to the Canary Islands for many years for work reasons. Francisco Moreno García also served as president of the Federation of Autonomous Radio and Television Organizations or Entities (FORTA) in two stages, by decision of the General Meeting. The new Director of Information Services rejoined the RTVC team in November 2019 as sole administrator.
Francisco Moreno has a degree in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a veteran in all areas of the audiovisual sector, as a journalist and as a manager. audiovisuals. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Television and Audiovisual Sciences and Arts, of which he is currently first vice president.
At 59 years old, he has been through almost all the major media outlets. He obtained his position by competitive examination at Spanish Television in 1987 and where he remained until 1999. In 1990 he was appointed head of TVE’s Daily News Services in the Canary Islands, and then director of News and Programmes, a position he held until 1999, when he left. state public television to assume the direction of Antena 3 in Las Palmas. He has made his executive tasks compatible with the direction of reports and audiovisual content.
He could have been president of RTVE when José Manuel Pérez Tornero was elected
After his time at Antena3, in 2001 he was commissioned by the Government of the Canary Islands to revive the Public Radio and Television of the Canary Islands and one of his first actions was to incorporate RTVC into FORTA, of which he was named president in November of that year.
In 2005 he finished his first stage at RTVC and joined the Iberian Press Editorial Group as general director of the Audiovisual area. Later he assumed the Directorate of Institutional and Corporate Communication of the Lopesan hotel company, a position that he has combined with that of professor of Advertising and Corporate Communication at the Next IBS Business School.
He participated in the merit contest for the election of the Board of Directors and President of RTVE. Since November 2019, he has held the position of provisional sole administrator of RTVC and its commercial companies. Paco Moreno was the boss of Santiago González almost 20 years ago, director of News at Atresmedia since 2016.