In 2006 RTVE, the Spanish public TV, celebrated the 50 anniversary of its foundation. It was too the beginning of a reorganization (in theory) to improve the policy of former goverments. In fact, the new policy has two clear effects: the first one, RTVE loses great amounts of audience, making shit programmes. The second one, RTVE retires great part of the staff without a future plan to the enterprise (but they are still hiring a new crowd that comes from a government friendly private press group). The general manager, Carmen Caffarel is the main guilty with the Socialist Party who gave her the work.
OK, there are more serious culture problems in Spain like education or intelectual property laws. But today I’m really angry when I read (elmundo.es) that Sebastián Álvaro, the director of Al Filo de lo Imposible will be retired.
Al filo de lo Imposible (In the edge of the impossible) is one of older, better and internationally awarded programmes in Spain. Sebastián Álvaro and his team made more than reports about high-risk sports: they scaled to the highest, they dived to the deepest, they run in the hotest and iced deserts, they showed us the travels of greats explorers following their steps. And the f*ck*ng politics will kill this wonderful adventure.
Updated, Jan. 5th: next Sunday TVE will begin to broadcast a new season(TierrasPolares.es) of Al filo de lo imposible in which we’ll see Ramón Larramendi, Juanma Viu and Ignacio Oficialdegui going 4500 Km in a “polar catamaran” across the Antartic desert. This expedition ended a year ago. Maybe the last Al filo?