Raúl Prieto, former director of Sálvame, leaves Mediaset after more than 20 years

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If there has been a director linked to

forever, that has been Raúl Prieto.

Director of

,

,

or the debates on

, he has decided to dissociate himself from the audiovisual group after 20 years.

As Prieto himself has advanced to Vertele, he has made the decision to

.

Mediaset sources have confirmed his departure to EL MUNDO, but they assure that

and that both

and the chain hope to have projects together again in the future.

"The relationship continues to be excellent and we hope to maintain new collaborations in the future," they say from the group.

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"He wanted to do different things and he considered that the time had come since now there was no project in mind for him," they explain.

"

. It was a very good start for both parties", he concludes.

Three years ago and after being one of the most prolific directors of

,

signed a long - term contract with

after the channel 's financial disagreements with the production company for which

worked at the time ,

.

A contract through which, in addition, he became part of the executive management, although his work was always linked to the creation and direction of new programs.

's time

as CEO of

, began in the audiovisual world with Canal Sur.

His landing at

's television milestones

,

.

With the end of the program presented by

and Carmen alcayde,

, together with

, would create Sálvame, the longest-running program on television afternoons.

And it was from this journey that both he and

, the other director, became the best-known television directors on the small screen.

There was no afternoon in which either of the two did not appear on the screen or even did not participate in some of the blocks of the program or some of the information.

They also became characters of the heart at some point.

For 10 years of the 14 that the program will now celebrate in April,

was its director, but a disagreement with

, who went from being a close friend to an 'enemy', caused the director to dissociate himself from

in 2017 , abandon

, and signed for the then producer of Ana Rosa Quintana,

, to take charge of

weekend afternoon program

that at that time already had

as presenter .

The objective of the chain was for

to lift the hearings of an afternoon in which

had lost more and more strength.

He got it.

Three years later, disagreements between

and the production company at the expense of La isla de las tentaciones, produced in its first two editions by

, triggered the group to launch an ordeal offering the production company's probably most prolific director an editing contract in the group. audiovisual with responsibilities also in the executive direction.

Raúl Prieto

accepted it and from then on came the debates on

, but also some failures such as

, the

with the worst audience in the history of Telecinco.

With the arrival of the new

leadership and the changes introduced by Alessandro Salem, the new CEO, the departure of

adds to what is already called the

revolution .

At the moment it is unknown what are these new projects and "new paths" that the director wants to undertake, but it is clear that for the moment they will no longer be with

.

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