The departure of Ana Rosa Quintana from morning television agitates the competition, which sees an opportunity to achieve the long-awaited morning leadership of the audiences. The presenter Jaime Cantizano (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, 50 years old) will enter that battle for the gold medal of ‘share’ with ‘Mañaneros’, a new daily magazine that opens this Monday at 10:40 am in La 1 of TVE. The commitment of the public channel will also have Miriam Moreno and Marc Santandreu to accompany the journalist in the presentation work and will have news, politics and heart, with the return of Pepa Jiménez to the social chronicle after 13 years away from television.
-Did you think a lot about accepting TVE’s mornings?
-The truth is, no. In the same coffee that I was having with Eduardo Blanco (director of ‘Mañaneros’) and he told me what he wanted to do on TVE, I thought: ‘and I thought I was going to lead a quiet life with the image already consolidated as radio communicator. But I have been saying for many years that I want to make a magazine that combines entertainment with current events.
-The morning did not present it, but it was for many years in the afternoons of Antena 3.
-I did two years in the afternoon and it was a lot of fun. There is one thing that I have never told, but before there was ‘Espejo público’, I spoke with Antena 3 to present the mornings. However, ‘Aquí hay tomate’ appeared, there was a strategic change in the chain and I moved on to the afternoon. I resisted, but when you have a chain contract, well, you have to do it. I have also presented a lot at night and I was missing the morning section, although on Localia TV I already did a magazine for the local network that I presented with Concha Galán.
-When you agreed to be the face of TVE mornings, did you know that Ana Rosa Quintana stopped doing them on Telecinco?
-Well, I don’t remember if it was already known or not, but it had nothing to do with my decision. All the slots are difficult and now the concept of success is different. They taught me that I had to achieve goals. That idea on television has already been relativized, because there are many options and it is more complicated. We are going to do it, I am going to enjoy it. You have to be patient. In my career, like everyone, we have very good moments with good results and other programs that have not worked. And that’s it, no drama.
– Do you think that the absence of the queen of the mornings can benefit you?
-It is an opportunity to call the viewer and hit the screen. It is a very interesting time in the morning and in the afternoon. A lot is going to happen this season and the next, for sure.
-Until May you collaborated with Susanna Griso in ‘Espejo público’. How did you take that now it will be competition?
-With Ana Rosa I have not been able to speak. Susanna is tremendously generous, she has been loving and, in the end, we speak not professionally to professionally, but person to person. She rejoices in the good things that can happen to the people she is with.
-He arrives on TVE from Monday to Friday and continues on Onda Cero over the weekend. When are you going to rest?
-I have to thank Atresmedia for the respect and affection with which they have always treated me. She had a prior commitment to radio. I’ve been doing ‘Por fin no es lunes’ for seven years with very good audience data and I’m very happy. The radio has given me great things, not only on Onda Cero, but also with the ‘morning show’ that I presented on Cadena Dial. Radio helped me take another professional path. To show another facet and another way of communicating or telling things. I am going to continue on Onda Cero on weekends, what happens is that we are going to look for the formula. Today you can do radio from home.
-He touches the heart again in ‘Mañaneros’ after ‘¿Dónde estás corazón?’ on Antena 3. What change have you noticed in the social chronicle genre?
-We are talking about fifteen years have passed, it is almost a stage of the last century (laughs). It has radically changed. Television also changed the social chronicle. The formula of the ‘reality’ of the heart arrived and now I think that it returns a bit to recover the traditional, playing with technology or social networks.
-Would you like to have a former collaborator of yours from Antena 3 who later went to ‘Sálvame’?
I’m not nostalgic. I am in the moment in which I am and I have the tools that I have. I think it’s been a long time. It is another television and professional moment. But on television you never know who you’re going to meet again. It is like a circle, a wheel and when you thought you had finished a stage, suddenly you are there again. If you stick with time, chances are you’ll run into people you worked with a year ago.
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