The Government of the Community of Madrid, chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is committed to appointing the controversial José Antonio Sánchez, current provisional administrator of public television and radio, as the new general director of Telemadrid. The decision, which is expected to be adopted before the end of June through the company’s shareholders’ meeting, where only the regional government is represented, captures the harmony that the manager has developed with the conservative baroness’ team. As a source most trusted by Díaz Ayuso said: “What works is not touched.” And so, Sánchez, 70 years old, He will remain at the head of Telemadrid for four more yearsto where he reached in 2021 backed by a long professional career that includes having recognized himself as a PP voter, having directed RTVE during the Government of Mariano Rajoy, and having admitted to appearing in The Bárcenas papers.
“The Telemadrid board of directors has voted on the proposal as the sole candidate of José Antonio Sánchez, who will be the one that is submitted to the Madrid Assembly, which will have to review the suitability of the candidate, approve it and send it to the shareholders meeting. , who is the one who carries out the procedure,” the government spokesperson, Miguel Ángel García Martín, explained this Wednesday about three bodies that the PP dominates in one way or another.
Known for making headlines (“I am more excited about the Pope than my wife”; “I do not consider myself anti-anything, much less anti-Francoist”…) Sánchez landed at RTVM in 2021 as Provisional Administrator. His mission was to solve a problem. Díaz Ayuso considered that the previous leadership, elected during the minority government of Cristina Cifuentes as a result of a negotiation between parties in the Assembly, acted against his interests. “I am the only president who has a television that is critical of her,” she said in an interview on The world. Those twelve words, according to the opposition’s interpretation, revealed what Díaz Ayuso was looking for with the change of directors, which required a legal reform approved by the PP and Vox in the Assembly: a television, at best, uncritical. Or worse, they stressed: going from tele-Espe, as Telemadrid was called at the time of Esperanza Aguirre’s absolute majorities, to tele-Ayuso.
As a result of the appointment, in Díaz Ayuso’s new Telemadrid, key pieces of Rajoy’s old TVE were reunited, the one from the Black Friday stage, when the staff dressed in mourning to protest against the blockade in the renewal of the management of the entity; or the campaign was launched This is how it is manipulated, in which bad practices and pressures to direct information were reported. Then, as now, Sánchez appointed José Antonio Álvarez Gundín (former deputy opinion director of La Razón) and José Gilgado as those responsible for the news. Then, as now, he counted on Ramón Camblor, whom he signed when he arrived as content director at the regional office. And then, as now, there were appointments and organizational decisions in the editorial office that the opposition considered difficult to separate from political affinities.
Telemadrid closed 2023 with 5.9% Compartir and the best audience figure for its news programs in the last 13 years: 9.9% on average, with a 13.7% share of the midday news, according to its activity report, the balance of which calls into question a study by the consulting firm DOS30 with data from Kantar Media (which reduces the annual news average to 8.1). Since then, it has accumulated various controversies.
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One, because the Constitutional Court, after an appeal by Juan Lobato’s PSOE, will have to rule on the legal reform that now allows the appointment of Sánchez. Another, for having to rectify in their news for having cited erroneous information about The Objective about Begoña Gómez, the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. A third, for another rectification, in this case for incorrectly stating in a tweet that Más Madrid had not condemned the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023. And a fourth, because the Electoral Board warned Telemadrid for using expressions derogatory words like “that Sánchez [en referencia al presidente del Gobierno]”.
Of course, it could have been worse, as the provisional administrator himself joked during the parliamentary appearance he starred in on Tuesday in the Assembly.
“You call two errors that may have occurred a hoax, in fact you have not been able to give more examples, because there have not been any,” he said in response to a question from a Más Madrid deputy. “There was no desire for malice,” he insisted. “We have so much thought put into this that we do not need special measures, there is no hate speech in RTVM,” he argued. “Professionals know that they are in a public service, and when there are some types of errors, hoaxes, we try not to give them, those things are censored,” he added. “I’m going to give an example of something that we didn’t give, from you, from Más Madrid: ‘I’m going to educate my children to eat yours alive, you fucking posh,’ he exemplified with a campaign by the youth of this party. . “I ordered it not to happen. We are always very on top of things so that they do not happen.”
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