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Updated Saturday, March 9, 2024-16:50

  • RTVE Silvia Intxaurrondo renews for 537,000 euros after her tough interview with Feijóo

  • The figures in detail Three senior RTVE officials confirm the renewal of Silvia Intxaurrondo

The best in history,

the entertainment program produced by The Pool Management for aTVE and presented by

Silvia Intxaurrondo , obtained on Friday, in its fourth installment, an audience

share

of 3.3%

(373,000 viewers).

The data is one of the worst for La 1 in

prime time

and was even lower than the result of La 2, which had a 3.7%

share

thanks to the movie

Heroína

.

When it premiered on February 17,

The Best in History

attracted 753,000 viewers (6.8%

share

), which was already considered a disappointing result.

The bad result of

The best in history

comes in the week in which EL MUNDO published the amounts of the presenter's contract and its conditions.

As this newspaper learned and three senior RTVE officials confirmed yesterday, public television will pay

25,000 euros

for each episode of

The Best in History

, which will last up to six installments.

Intxaurrondo will also receive

700 euros

for presenting each of the

260 annual programs

of

La Hora de La 1

, an amount that she will not receive if she is absent on medical leave.

If all of the 260 programs signed in its new contract are fulfilled, RTVE will pay 182,000 euros;

364,000 euros in the two years contemplated in the contract.

To this daily amount must be added another monthly payment of 7,887 euros for 11 months a year as co-director of

La Hora de La 1

, until adding a total for the two years of 173,514 euros.

The sum of these amounts reaches the figure indicated in the 'Justification' section of the internal RTVE expense document accessed by EL MUNDO:

537,514 euros

.

The RTVE and Intxaurrondo contract is, according to internal sources of the public company, very unusual, both for its length and its price, since the figure of 25,000 euros per program is a maximum that was only paid to Julia Otero. by

Días de Tele

, in the first quarter of 2023. The journalist's renewal file was opened on the afternoon of July 17, 2023,

hours after her electoral interview with the Popular Party candidate, Alberto Núñez Feijóo

, in the elections on July 23.

When EL MUNDO disclosed the Intxaurrondo and RTVE contract, the journalist's husband,

Jhinaoui Farouk,

who is also her partner in the firm

Sukun Comunicación SL

(the company with which she receives her salary), addressed the newspaper to deny the information. .

After considering their arguments and evidence, EL MUNDO considered that the published text was correct and that it was not necessary to rectify it.

Intxaurrondo then wrote a message on the social network X in which he announced the sending of a burofax to Joaquín Manso, director of EL MUNDO.

"I hope you have, at least, the decency to recognize the falsehood of what you have published," the journalist wrote.