weekly report deserves National Television Award much earlier than it is today. The jury responsible for awarding the award made a very easy decision: There is no place on the national television spectrum, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, that broadcasts continuously with similar quality parameters.
But let’s make logical and documented criticism. Not only has it lost much of the meaning it was created in 1973, as the program lost half an hour along the way with no justification to support this measure, but the end result of each of its installments has been greatly damaged.
While the Weekly Report’s standard duration was 60 minutes (it only lasted 90 minutes in a short initial phase), it has grown into a current affairs magazine, where a series of journalist-cameraman couples flourish through four news stories (with the relief of letting us know that) ten to run a writer’s work. five-minute television) current pieces were divided into the traditional areas of a news program: National, International, Community and Culture. Examine any of the programs of the eighties and you will see how a report from each of these areas is not lacking in the editions presented by Mª Carmen García Vela, Infome’s longest serving face. Signatures such as Vicente Romero, Ana Cristina Navarro, Curro Aguilera, Rosa Mª Artal, José Infante, Juan Antonio Tirado or Antonio Gasset were exhibited in them. The set was a delight.
I exchanged several emails with Óscar González, the penultimate director of the Weekly Report, emphasizing that the program should be extended to 60 minutes. He tried, but TVE executives ignored him. Something inexplicable.