Server salaries RTVE was re-discussed at the interim president’s monthly meeting, Elena Sanchez, In Joint Committee on parliamentary control of Public Corporation. One of the issues that PP and Vox focused on the most was this: The one about Silvia Intxaurrondo’s salaryPresenter of ‘La hora de La 1’ and ‘El mejor de la historia’.
Vox MP Carina Mejías drew attention “High salaries paid to some” Journalists hired by RTVE Moreover, he took the opportunity to launch an attack by pointing directly at Intxaurrondo: “It would be admirable if he were impartial in his views and created programs with pleasant content for everyone, regardless of their political ideology.”
“There are many journalists who earn even more than the head of the Government in the production of their programs, which seems absolutely inappropriate to us,” Mejías added. After stating that RTVE is trying to do these things “relatively attractive salaries in the current audiovisual panorama”Elena Sánchez clarified the issue regarding Intxaurrondo.
Although the presenter himself responded on his social networks to the information that his salary is estimated at 530,000 euros, the interim president of RTVE He emphasized that this was the “maximum” salary for two seasonsbecause it depends on different variables like “the number of programs you have done”. “It is not yet known what he will charge,” Sánchez said. he insisted.
On the other hand, he commented: “In program contracts, legal methods are always applied in accordance with the practice of supply and demand in the audiovisual market”. “In the news, the contracts for two years belong to Josep Cuní (…) from RNE and Silvia Intxaurrondo from TVE,” he said.
He also took the opportunity to point out that historically RTVE has had a long list of external servers and communicators. He gave names such as Carlos Herrera, Paco Lobatón, Mercedes Milá, Bertín Osborne or Mariló Montero as examples: “I cannot go into detail about each of them, but I can assure you that they all complied with the recruitment rules governing TVE.”