El Cazador, the 'firecracker' of RTVE, turns audiences upside down

• TV Sálvame returns to fight against And now Sonsoles after the fiasco of Café con aroma de mujer

Two wrestlers in the ring,

and

, and a trophy, win the audience in the time slot between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Since

started on

, all the focuses have been focused on seeing if the

program managed to surpass the long-lived

, weakened for too many months.

The battle has been practically daily.

Some days

won , others

did .

So one day after another until... Until an unexpected fighter has entered the ring:

.

The RTVE contest, which until now remained in a third or even fourth position on television afternoons, has hit the 'firecracker' that has left the two gladiators, absolute monopolizers of the strip in question, KO.

For four weeks,

has not only placed itself in second position but has even reached the top with

-17.6%-, coinciding with the day of the first match of the Spanish team in the

.

It has surpassed, to the surprise of experts and

and

, the great bet of the season,

;

It is close on the heels of

's stronghold ,

, and is getting audience data almost three points above the average for La 1. And all without noise, without fuss, without being noticed.

"Every day that we left the set of the recordings of this season, we left with very good feelings," says

, the presenter of

and, although he does not like to score any goals, one of the culprits of this sudden success.

"We thought that the public could welcome it with open arms, but I like that the programs are growing day by day, that 605 is better than 604", he affirms.

I like that the programs are growing day by day, that the 605 is better than the 604

Rodrigo Vazquez

Rodrigo Vázquez arrived at

last May to replace

, who had signed for Mediaset for

and who will now face the king of the afternoons,

, with the new

program , Reaction on chain.

The journalist came directly from Galician television and was placed in charge of one of the great bets of

.

With the calm of not having the pressure to surpass anyone and only with the aim "of making the contestants and the spectators enjoy".

Rodrigo Vázquez went step by step, like the little ant in the story of the cicada.

He was storing, working, contributing his personality to the contest and planting until it was time to harvest.

has been fallow for two years

: the last month that

hosted the program, it had a share of 9.1%, a little more than 800,000 viewers.

The first month with

, almost on vacation, the quota was the same.

That is to say,

and

were maintained, but they could not exceed one million viewers or increase that share of the screen that is so necessary for a public television that is experiencing its worst audience crisis in years.

El Cazador, a bet with a lot of work behind it

Summer is over and things were more or less the same.

The battle was being fought between

and

, while

and

continued to sow.

But suddenly something happened.

Someone at

realized that

could be one of the great presenters of the public entity, one of the faces on a par with

(

), or even

.

The light bulb came on and they placed him in front of the

.

The presentation of those chosen for the festival from which the representative of Spain will emerge to

was the turning point that

needed to finally reap the harvest.

Since that special program, now more than a month ago, the data of

has risen like foam.

Rodrigo Vázquez, together with the contestants of El Cazador.RTVE

does

not like to place himself in the first line of this success.

He insists that it is the work of the entire team and emphasizes it as many times as necessary: ​​"I always try to convey that our concern is to offer the best product to the viewer. The whole team has a fundamental part.

. If you train well, you'll play better and have more chances of winning. We have to be able to transform those figures, no matter how big they are, into motivation".

In the first week of November, the

program averaged a 9.9%

;

in the second, 11% finally managing to exceed one million viewers;

and in the third, 12%.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ring, the usual fighters looked stunned at the new opponent.

, in the third week of November achieved an average of 12.1%, while

was also around that 12%.

If the afternoons on free television were a horse race, we would have to resort to the photo

.

Since the beginning of the season, it has recorded constant growth, with a share of 8.4% in September, 9.3% in October, and the current 11.6%.

To this we must add the push of the World Cup in Qatar that is coming in handy for

, but also for

, the contest hosted by Aitor Albizua.

Soccer shot

to the absolute leadership above

and

, and also

(13.1% and 1,640,000), which was second option behind the intractable

.

But it's not just for football.

"We like that when people come to the set it is a special day, the day I come to television. What I like the most is that when a contestant has lost 65,000 euros and we say cut, their reaction is to tell us to give it to them It's been good.

, "says the presenter.

The keys to the success of The Hunter

What has happened to make this happen?

explains it: "The contestants leave us their mark of their passage through the program. I remember a boy who had suffered

for being trans and came to the program and told his story. I remember another man of 50 and little who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and wanted to fight and continue doing things. He came to the contest and participated. They

. And these are stories that come and touch. I think that one of the legs of that rise may be there".

The other leg would be in the changes of

and

.

For a long time both chains have focused on outperforming each other and have forgotten other players whom they did not consider direct competition.

No one fell for that by removing

The greatest competition was removed from El Cazador.

Nobody fell into the fact that

's attempts to stop

, testing Café con aroma de mujer, not only plunged the chain further into that slot, but also helped boost the

contest .

Nobody fell for

.

"It's very complicated. Nobody knows anything. On television there are no magic formulas. What I try is to add because it is a format that I already knew from before," says

with all modesty and humility.

"I am one of those who think that what a presenter has to do is add and not get in the way. The protagonist is not me, nor the star, the stars are the contestants."

I am one of those who think that what a presenter has to do is add and not get in the way

Rodrigo Vazquez

"I'll sign tomorrow to become the leaders of that range, but now the panorama is very changing,

. I do not try to focus the goal on being the first but on making a Good program. With that philosophy, the results will come. If we are more aware of the data for the next day than of the contestants or the spectators, it will divert us from that objective" The new fighter has dealt his first blow.

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