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The journalist and host of PPT (El Trece) gave an interview on LAM (America).
In an exclusive interview with LAM (América, at 8:00 p.m.), the cycle that leads Angel De Brito, Jorge Lanata He spoke about the future of television at the time of the rise of social networks.
When De Brito wanted to know if next year will be the last of PPT (El Trece, Sundays, at 10 p.m.); The host of the program opened up: “I’m not sure. I thought that at one point… Now I’m thinking about what to do,” he admitted. And, with humor, he added: “I sometimes speak and say any bullshit.”
“Things change,” he explained, “and I’m changing too. I’m going to see if it’s the last one, I don’t know.” “And would you get into doing other types of formats?” De Brito insisted. “Obviously, I’m not going to perpetuate myself in PPT either!” Lanata reacted.
Jorge Lanata, interviewed in LAM. Capture TV.
“I think that PPT is one of the things that I did the longest in my life,” he said. But at some point you have to turn things around.”
“In fact, I am changing the scenery, I change the fixed stories, I change the way of editing the program… I am changing things because if not, I myself get bored. I don’t like to repeat a scheme even if it works,” he continued. saying Lanata.
Talking about what formats he would be willing to try, Jorge Lanata recalled: “At one point, I did The Smartest Argentine, on El Trece. And look at how crazy I am with the rating issue that at one point, the program started to make 7 points and I said: ‘I’m not going to go below double digits’, and I raised it.
“The channel didn’t pick it up, I picked it up. It was a delirium, they all bitched at me. But I didn’t want to be with 7 points on the air. It was another television too…”, Jorge added.
Jorge Lanata: “I don’t like to repeat a scheme even if it works”. Capture TV.
Jorge Lanata: “There is a lot to do on television, I don’t think it’s all invented”
Asked to reflect on the future of television, Jorge Lanata stated: “There is still a lot to do on television, I don’t think it’s all invented.”
Marcela Feudale He asked him: “Do you think that in this world of social networks in which radio is trying to survive, there is a future for TV?” “There is a future, but it depends on what context -responded the journalist-. It seems to me that open television is going to be for everything that is news and events”.
“There is a problem with the news: the news lose money,” Lanata stressed. “The big news chains, too. CNN loses money… What happens is that the media of the conglomerates have news channels because that gives them opening to have other things on television”.
“I think that open television is going to stay for that and for everything that is called an ‘event’, that which comes from time to time and is important, and you never know if that is going to come back or how it will be,” he considered.
“We, with PPT, are lucky that we are considered an event. People never know what is going to happen in PPT. And sometimes, I have no idea what is going to happen in PPT either. That’s good, because people know it. perceives and sees us,” said the driver.
Jorge Lanata: “Open television will remain for news and events.” Capture TV.
Referring to the rating, Jorge Lanata stated: “I bitch when we drop below two digits. Why? Because there are two digits. If Big Brother He can score 24 points, there are two digits”.
“For politics, too?” intervened Nazarena Velez. “For politics, I believe that above 10 (rating points) we cannot do. We cannot do more than what we are doing.”
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