Save methe program that has been everything on Telecinco, going through its worst moment. Last Friday the main details of the Deluxe operation u Operation Moona police investigation that has been carried out since 2018 on an alleged crime of Discovery and Revelation of Secrets to 140 celebrities by the direction of the program produced by The TV Factory.
A scandal that could splash Mediaset itself, a company that until now only refers to La Fábrica de la Tele to clarify the facts. This, despite the fact that owns 30% of the production company and that since its inception they have three members of their leadership on the board of directors of that company, a body made up of only five people.
The data indicates that the photographer and collaborator of the program Gustavo Gonzalez I would maintain a friendship with the police Angel Jesus Fernandez Hita, from which he would receive information on up to 140 celebrities. González was one of the first investigated, but according to him he has published The world other members of the team have been added Save meamong which are David Valldeperas -director dismissed from the program last week- and the producer as a legal person.
damage control
The producer itself acknowledged last Saturday that there was a judicial process although “still in the preliminary phase” and against which they have shown total willingness to “contribute to the clarification of the facts by justice”. In their statement they deny that they are being investigated, although this is not the case. “What is being investigated is the nature of the link that a journalist with a long professional career had with one of his sources, a police officer,” they clarify.
The sources consulted by THE OBJECTIVE indicate that the production company’s strategy is to carry out damage control and establish a cordon sanitaire in Gustavo González and Ángel Jesús Fernández so that the producer is finally acquitted of the investigation.
A damage control seeks by all means to exempt Mediaset from responsibilities, the media group that broadcasts the space through Telecinco. Faced with questions from this medium, Mediaset refer to the production company’s statement and prefer not to comment on the investigation or on whether they have taken any internal measures to clarify what happened.
Factory Programs
In any case, it is almost impossible to contain the investigation only to employees of La Fábrica de la Tele. In the first place, the production company is one of the companies owned by Mediaset itself through the Mediterranean, the company with which it groups all its holdings in production companies that only produce content for their television channels. Mediaset uses this formula to reduce costs and secure products at lower prices.
La Fábrica de la Tele was founded in 2007 by Óscar Cornejo and Adrián Madrid, with a 30% stake of Mediaset (since 2018 through Mediterráneo) and since then It has become the producer of the most successful ratings of Telecinco with formats that have been pillars of its grill that has been betting on heart content and reality television for decades.
The Factory is responsible for spaces such as Here is tomato, White ants, La Noria, The great debate, Change me, In the Box, I will resist, okay?, Las Campos or Cazamariposas, among others. Currently, he produces the programs Save me, Deluxe, Socialite, Everything is a lie and Everything is true.
Talk about The TV Factory is to talk about the historical success of Telecinco for almost two decades. A period in which the Mediaset group has maintained tight control over its content, its programs and even its accounts. In fact, as this newspaper has been able to verify Since its inception, the production company has had prominent members of the group’s leadership on its board of directors.
In the Mercantile Registry it is stated that mario rodriguez He has been non-director secretary of La Fábrica de la Tele for fifteen years. Rodríguez is number four in the company in his capacity as Corporate General Manager. Furthermore, since April 2014 he is member of the Board of Directors of Mediaset España. He is one of the trusted men of the CEO, Paolo Vasile, and is part of the hard core of the company’s decision-making.
Similarly, another director of La Fábrica de la Tele is Ángel Santamaría, a position he has held for nine years. He is the head of Internal Audit at Mediaset and, like Mario Rodríguez, participates in all the boards of companies owned by the audiovisual giant, such as Mandarina, Super Sport y Unicorn Content.
corporate managers
But there is a third Mediaset representative: Elizabeth Ortega, who was responsible for Mediaset’s Corporate Governance for five years. The board of directors has been a non-director deputy secretary for fifteen years, as well as a representative of the group in all the participated production companies, just like Santamaría and Rodríguez. Rodríguez, Santamaría and Ortega share advice with the two founders of the company Oscar Cornejo and Adrian Madrid.
The investigation reflects that the case has been tracked for four years, despite the fact that the producer says that it is “in an initial stage.” The truth is that the summary indicates that investigations have been carried out since 2018.
Four years in which it does not seem likely that the directors of Mediaset were not aware of indications about this investigation, also considering their status as directors and secretaries of the board, positions through which they have had access to all the commercial information of the society from birth.
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