What an earthquake that has just occurred in the television industry. According to El Mundo, Mediaset has decided to do without the services of Paolo Vasile as managing director (or CEO) of the television company. This ends an era that has spanned some 23 years.
The movement comes from Italy and responds to a business remodeling orchestrated from the offices of Pier Silvio Berlusconi. some movements that they have taken ahead the historic executivewho is about to turn 70 and who renewed his post last February.
Thus begins the search for a new CEO, something that will take place at the extraordinary meeting scheduled for Wednesday, October 26. Everything indicates that Borja Prado He will remain in his post as chairman after the restructuring is complete.
The man who made Telecinco what it is today
Vasile arrived at Telecinco in 1999 and soon put the chain at the forefront of a way of making television, creating, along the way, a programming model in which its programs fed each other. With this, it had a great asset: reality shows like ‘Big Brother’, whose contents were commented on at all hours in the space on duty.
A strategy, not without controversy, in which it has dominated the television narrative with programs that have carved a niche in the culture and history of Spanish television from ‘Save me’ to ‘The island of temptations’. However, in recent months things have not gone very well for the group in terms of audiences, a factor that must have been decisive in Vasile’s departure.