On October 18, we anticipated the approaching earthquake in the Mediaset News. We published that day Alessandro Salem had commissioned Manuel Villanueva that he was looking for a new news director and that they had already found one. The next day we announced the name of Paco Morenoprofessional from Canarian television, where he was the sole administrator in the autonomous community with the previous president, the socialist Angel Victor Torrescurrent Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.
Moreno himself gave us an interview days later where he confirmed that he had Juan Pedro Valentin and gave clues to the imminent departure of Pedro Piqueras, who had been negotiating his retirement for several months. This Thursday he says goodbye through the front door.
One of Paco Moreno's most successful decisions was to bring the Asturian from RTVE Carlos Franganilloa professional of recognized prestige and who has been praised almost unanimously, even by his colleague and rival from Antena 3 Vicente Valleswho threw flowers at the man from Oviedo since the interview granted to this newspaper.
But it is not all good news, peace and love in the Mediaset News after the applauded arrival of Franganillo from the star Telediario de La 1, where he had come to occupy second place in number of viewers, ahead of Piqueras. They tell us by the way that the signing “has not been expensive” because Franganillo had “his salary capped at TVE” and that Mediaset has taken him “for about 300,000 euros a year.”
This Wednesday we knew, as we learned, that Paco Moreno brings presenters in almost all its editions with the arrival of Carlos Franganillo. But not everyone is happy. White Angels leaves Saturdays and Sundays and will present the midday edition from Monday to Friday with Isabel Jimenez. Ángeles will replace Carlos Franganillo when he is not on set, while David Cantero jump into the weekend with Pepe Ribagorda.
What has not been told is that Isabel Jiménez had become very angry and that she repeated that she had been promised to be the presenter of the 9 o'clock news program. Internal sources at the network also say that, in the face of Jiménez's notorious indignation, they came to propose to present The Critical Lookreplacing Ana Terradilloswhich, in that case, would have had to find a new destination.
Ana Rosa Quintanaas producer of The Critical Look (Unicorn Content), refused to replace Terradillos and finally Isabel Jiménez has agreed to stay where she was, but accompanying Ángeles Blanco, who will be number one, which is clear if we take into account that Blanco is the one chosen to present nine if Franganillo is not there, facing, by the way, her husband and father of her children, Vicente Vallés, his wife's direct rival when that happens.
Delay due to new sets
The problems of Telecinco News do not end there, from which Pedro Piqueras says goodbye this Thursday. Mediaset España announced months ago that it was renewing its news, closing the news portal Nius and advanced the return of the news to Four. At that time, Juan Pedro Valentín, head of the area until the arrival of Paco Moreno, commissioned the design and construction of new and modern sets. But when Paco Moreno was appointed news director he decided that those sets were no longer useful. He wants them different from those designed by Juan Pedro Valentín. More smalls. That means starting to design and build again. And it takes time. Carlos Franganillo may premiere after Christmas (although he is already with Mediaset) but the new sets, contrary to what was announced, will not be available until February at the earliest.
