‘TV family’ did not arrive at 1 with the live parade last Monday. His landing was already prophesied long before the president of the corporation, José Pablo López, signed Belén Esteban. He already gave clues when he chose … To Sergio Calderón as director of TVE. He was the creator of the new ‘Save Me’ in Ten. His choice was a statement of intentions and a way of doing on the new public television. The official arrival of the ‘television orphans from Telecinco to TVE, with Belén Esteban and María Patiño to the head, had to be big to demonstrate firmly that they had the support of the corporation and not only the directive.
But the parade had not yet been held when the first criticisms came through the unions. “It is a massive influx event within a work environment and in spaces that are not conceived or enabled for such use,” they recognized in a statement that RTVE sent to the RR.HH. department, safety and risk prevention of the corporation, where they expressed their “concern” about “the conditions of security, occupational health and organizational responsibility.” Some workers assured ABC that they received orders not to use the dining rooms of Prado del Rey since they would be available to the guests to the parade.
The result of the event after two cancellations, one for the death of Pope Francis and another for the blackout, was not very satisfactory for the workers. A worker, when leaving his post, told ABC the day of the premiere that he did not understand “how you have to paralyze all Prado del Rey for a 20 -meter parade.” Then the unions spoke again: “The chain is losing the north,” they said since use. “It was a mixture of aimless show, important technical failures (sound, image, logistics coordination …) and the general sensation that RTVE is losing the north.” In addition, they assured that the “did not meet” the program with expectations or the ‘Share’. At its premiere, it reaped 8.7% and 9.1% in its first and second part, but thanks to the daily series (which are interspersed to make up the result) they rose to 10.1%. Little result for so much investment.
From its premiere, the data dropped progressively. Wednesday’s first stretch lasted only five minutes and recorded 11.2% with 761,000 spectators, while the second, from 18.57 to 20.31, fell to 6.2% with 445,000 spectators. However, the container marks 8.9% with 623,000 spectators thanks to the data of ‘The Promise’ (13.2% and 886,000). The previous day he had registered 8.7% and 7.4% in both parties, but thanks again to fiction the container was 9.5%. “The discouragement of many companions is evident, and the disconnection with the real audience, also,” said the unions. «It must be done with another quality and another respect for the audience and for the public service values. […] RTVE needs fresh proposals, yes. But he also needs rigor, quality, and an address that knows where he is and where he wants to go, ”they concluded.
‘The TV family’ has just four days of broadcast, since last Thursday’s smoking changed the grill of the 1st. However, they have not lacked time to move to the Vatican to “cover” the information with Marta Riesco as a reporter. «I would like if today there is a white smoking to meet the new Pope. How would he have to do it? ”Asked the presenter from the Plaza de San Pedro. Nor did this decision feel good to workers, but this time there is a jump, since those who have denounced the modes of ‘The Family of the TV’ have been the journalists of the Informative Council. «It is urgent to ask for respect so that the program does not go to the credibility of our informative services or harm our brand image». RTVE workers explained that house information professionals had “long days in Rome informing with seriousness and rigor about the conclave for the election of the new Pope.”
In addition, they emphasized the participation of Riesco in the Vatican. «They sent one of their collaborators to Rome, to a clearly informative event, using the TVE microphone. Neither the tone nor the shape of this program is what is expected of a public television in an event of this importance. Our professionals and our spectators deserve respect, ”they recognized. Marta Riesco responded with irony during yesterday’s broadcast. “I am in Rome working, not on vacation,” he told a motorcycle to Audrey Hepburn in ‘Holidays in Rome’.
There are workers who sensed this landing long before the format was announced. «I don’t know who thought these television profiles were going to fit on a public television. That it is a public entity does not mean that everything is worth, ”acknowledges one of the workers to ABC. In addition, some expect this to be something lasting. «They have only been contributed to the conclave. I would not surprise me that they would also end in the morning of the 1 ». Some staff members speak of “invasion” when they refer to the entrance of ‘The Family of TV’ in 1. A anger that adds to which some informative journalists had after the cut of the ‘news’ to favor ‘the revolt’. “We work hours and hours for the conclave so that a collaborator of an entertainment program acts as a reporter,” Sources from RTVE assure ABC.
