After the lifting of all the programs broadcast live by the Extra TV news network and the dismissal of the majority of its employees, this Monday it was learned that the lawyer Franco Bindi and his partner the Pakistani businessman Muhammad Nadir They agreed with the union member Marcelo Balcedo for your media group to use the FM Extra frequency to broadcast from a luxurious apartment in Puerto Madero the new Es Gol radio programming and, also, so that some schedules of that radio are transmitted by streaming television on Extra TV.
Marcelo Balcedo is the owner of the La Plata newspaper Hoy and the Red92 radio station, despite the fact that he is with house arrest in his Uruguayan mansion El Gran Chaparral, since 2018by money laundering, smuggling and arms trafficking, with a request for extradition to be tried for other similar crimes in Argentina. In both countries, numerous properties, land, boats and 45 high-end trucks and cars were confiscated.
In fact, Myriam Reneé Chávez (mother of Marcelo Balcedo) and Mauricio Yebra are being tried in Argentina as accomplices of Balcedo and the prosecutors. They asked last week that they be sentenced to nine years in prison as responsible for the crimes of illicit association, money laundering and fraud due to fraudulent administration to the detriment of the Union of Educational and Minority Workers and Employees (SOEME).
According to Daniel Santoro in Clarín, “Yebra was Marcelo Balcedo’s right-hand man and an arsenal of 137 weapons and ammunition of all kinds was seized from his house.” In this oral trial, seven other people and four companies are also being tried for the diversion of hundreds of millions of pesos from the SOEME union, between 2012 and 2018, and for money laundering maneuvers, among other crimes.
The manager of Balcedo’s multimedia, María José Scottini, is the director of Es Gol radio, whose programming was relaunched this Monday on the 107.5 frequency, by Franco Bindi, which until the beginning of the year he used for FM Extra, when lawyer K decided to stop all the programs and show only music.
In addition to directing Es Gol radio, Scottini is the person who manages the newspaper Hoy and the Red92 radio network, since the union member Balcedo was arrested in Uruguay. She is a businesswoman and political leader who was a civil servant in the city of La Plata and had a frustrated pre-candidacy for mayor for Roberto Lavagna’s space in 2019.
Extra’s transformation
107.5 is a radio that He had bought the lawyer Bindi last year from Grupo Atlántida (owner of Gente magazine), when it relaunched its programming with well-known figures, under the direction of the actor/comedian Fernando “Coco” Silywho is no longer there nor could he keep his program on that radio.
Nor are the programs that journalists led last year Diego Moranzoni (from 6 to 9 in the morning), Tomas Mendez (12 to 15 hours), Ernestina Pais (15 to 18) and Max Delupi (18 to 20 hours), among others. All of them ended their programs at the end of last year, when Bindi decided to lift the programming and show only music on the Extra 107.5 FM frequency.
But this Monday Es Gol radio was relaunched, on the Extra frequency, on 107.5, with powerful programmingfrom seven in the morning: “Entrada en warm” starts first, with Mel Gordillo; at 9 a.m., “Diego’s Goal”, with Diego Diaz; from 12 to 14, “I will continue”, with Omar Porcel and Greta Rodriguez; at 2:00 p.m., “Maglietti Mode”, with Alejandra Maglietti; from 16 to 18, “It’s yours Juan”, with Juan DiNatale; at 6:00 p.m., “Perfil Bulos”, with Federico Bulos; and from 20 to 24, “The best national rock”, with Alejandra Arce.
During various sections of Extra’s programming, The channel broadcasts Es Gol radio in streaming, in addition to repeating a large number of programs that are no longer on the air, like “De una con Niembro”, which stopped airing last Friday, and a novelty was the live presentation, at 4 p.m., of the former Secretary of Commerce, Guillermo Morenowho previously occupied some evening slots on Extra TV.
This agreement with union member Balcedo occurred simultaneously with a greater presence of Guillermo Moreno on the Extra TV screenwith a one-hour live program in the afternoon, “Debate”, where this Monday he appeared with his wife Marta Cascales and two specialists in health issues, to debate the issues that “the next Peronist government will implement,” according to what he said. Moreno, who benefited from this Extra TV lottery with the repetition of his participation in other programs that previously aired on that television channel.
Guillermo Moreno and his wife Marta Cascales, with two health specialists, on “Debate”, Moreno’s program on Extra TV.“Moreno always had a great participation in Extra, beyond his presence in various television programs,” he told Clarion a journalist who worked on that channel. And he added: “If Moreno is not one of the real owners of the channel, he is very close, because “He always handled himself within the channel as if he were the owner, even giving orders to Bindi.”
In this way, with the approach to the libertarian government of Javier Milei ruled out, the crisis in the Extra media group began to take another direction this Monday, with the landing of the Balcedo group on the radio and in part of the Extra TV programming, as well as greater participation of the Peronist leader Moreno on the screen of the television channel.
