The arrival of Belén Esteban in the afternoon of TVE is already official: this will be ‘the family of TV’

Belén Esteban’s desire to compete with Sonsoles Onega will soon be a reality. RTVE officially announced the arrival of ‘The Family of TV’, the new program for the strip of the afternoons of the 1 in which Belén Esteban and María Patiño will accompany Aitor Albizua, who will be the presenter, to make a social and entertainment daily magacin. The format, produced by the Osa Producciones, comes after rumors that have been spreading for months. Last Wednesday the release date was confirmed: April 22. Also, the place where it will be recorded, which will be in Study 5 of Prado de Rey.

‘The Family of TV’ is presented as a living show inspired by the great traditional magacins but with a completely different staging and realization. A piece of daily life live whose objective, in addition to informing and entertaining, is to be useful to the viewer. To do this, he recovers forgotten content in recent years by a television like the current one, rendered to the narrative of the ‘Infoshow’. At the head of this great television family are María Patiño, Aitor Albizua and Inés Hernand, with the support of Belén Esteban as a special collaborator.

Together with them, the program has a wide team of collaborators formed by known faces from the world of television and journalism such as Lydia Lozano, Núria Marín, Víctor Sandoval, Kiko Matamoros, Carlota Corredera, Silvia Taulés, Chelo García-Cortés, Martín Bianchi, Raúl Rodríguez and Javier de Hoyos. In addition, ‘The Family of the TV’ includes a large squad of expert professionals on very diverse subjects such as Dr. Sánchez Martos, coach Cesc Escolá, nutritionist Marta Verona, gardener Ignacio Guío, veterinarian Fernando Pérez, the training Lucrecia Mangialavori and the scientist Luis Quevedo, among others.

‘The family of TV’ will offer a television with sections dedicated to health, well -being, sport, psychology and pedagogy; ‘To live crazy life with Salso’, cinema, music, theater and television; To live safe addressing consumption issues, scams, police investigations and cases of social impact; To live living with gastronomy, decoration, gardening, order and cleanliness and to live our culture and our traditions, with a review of reporterism to displace any collaborator to any corner of Spain in surprise missions, valueing the natural, historical and cultural set of the country.

The arrival of this program has put the corporation against the strings. The signing of Belén Esteban and the heart that she has exercised for years and her team could get into conflict, according to critical voices, with the vocation of public service that TVE has. Spanish Television has justified the broadcast of ‘The family of TV’: «This program reinforces RTVE’s commitment to a nearby, inclusive and quality public television, which responds to the needs and interests of all citizens in order to accompany, entertain and inform. It also does it with the vocation of reimagining television entertainment through useful content for the whole family, reinforcing its commitment to plurality, diversity and public service ».

The president of RTVE, José Pablo López, has also pronounced for the first time on the signing of Belén Esteban and the afternoons of the 1. «The 1 will comply with the public service, any deviation that occurs in the program of the points of the frame will be corrected. It can be said that we are working on a type of program that will be liked by everyone. We are adjusting to the objective that we have marked by current legislation, ”said the president during the Mixed Control Commission on RTVE at the Congress of Deputies this Thursday.