Mario Picazo did not start his television career in our country only with the Telecinco chain, which he left in 2014 after 19 years. The meteorologist, a face well-known to Spanish audiences, also appeared on TVE. ‘Extreme climates’, a self-created and directed program here he mixed travel, adventure and scientific dissemination.
At that time, Picazo left Telecinco’s ‘El tiempo’ set to go to harsh and extreme weather parts of the Earth. Communicator embarked on this adventure to meet a pending challenge: experience the most extreme weather events on your own skinshowing how the inhabitants of these parts of the planet managed to survive.
‘Extreme Climates’ only had a four-episode season and was produced by Atmosphere (Picazo’s production company), La Lupa Produccions, and La Quimera Audiovisual, a company where Tinet Rubira was co-founder and creative director before Gestmusic Banijay became managing director. . .
Over the course of four installments, the presenter went to see Oklahoma (United States) to talk about her tornadoes. He also visited the island of Newfoundland (Canada) to visit an extremely foggy region; One of the most desert towns to get to know Oymyakon and Atacama Desert (Chile), where the town with the lowest temperatures in Siberia is located.
The opportunity to do ‘Extreme Climates’ came after what could be considered Mario Picazo’s sweetest scene in Telecinco. To be more precise, at the end of 2008, the meteorologist had his first crisis with the chain due to the reformulation of the contractual relationship. Paolo Vasile decided to outsource the weather service Suggesting new conditions to Picazo, which at first did not convince the meteorologist, but eventually agreed, Florenci Rey, who was then in charge of weather information at the Cuatro and Cadena SER, offered the meteorologist’s company eventually to match.
His new business relationship with Mediaset has allowed Mario Picazo to maintain his position as head of meteorology at Telecinco, but at the same time be able to work with other networks. a) Yes, Picazo created the ‘Extreme Climates’ format with his production company in 2012.La 1 also received a negative response from him, which was offered to Vasile, which resulted in the release of TVE.
Four episodes of this program were broadcast in Turkey. late at night, with around 1.2 million viewers and a viewership share of close to 10%. The data was insufficient for the public network to renew it for a second season, as a brand could not count on it to be a sponsor.
Upon this, Picazo returned to the Fuencarral offices to present the second season of ‘Extreme Climates’ to air on Cuatro, but executives once again rejected it.
‘Extreme climates’ triggered (partly) departure from Telecinco
More than a year after the April 2013 premiere of ‘Extreme Climates’ on TVE, Cuatro said, ‘What am I doing here?’ made its premiere. Then, Picazo criticized the program on Twitter, accusing it of plagiarism, Something decisive for Paolo Vasile to lose his trust in him. This led to a split between both parties and a negotiated exit, which took place in early 2014 when the chain’s takeover team from meteorology was shut down.
“It seems completely incomprehensible to us that someone like Mario Picazo, who has been part of Mediaset España for all these years, would take to Twitter to report their differences. Of course, he hasn’t seen the entire program from yesterday and doesn’t know any of the following,” Mediaset stated through an official spokesperson at the time.
Various sources referenced by this portal at the time, although Mario Picazo’s current contract expired on 31 December 2013, an extension for a short period of time was accepted To give Mediaset time to find a new team and thus have “quiet relaxation”. Actually, then YOTELE already predicted that the relationship between the two parties was tense, anticipating his departure before communicating officially.
During these 19 years, Mario Picazo was one of Telecinco’s oldest and most beloved faces. It’s been on the web almost since the beginning of its broadcasts and never stopped taking the front of the screen to tell viewers weather information, Combine with other entertainment formats as a ‘Survivors’ or ‘Clever’ hostIn addition to cooperation in its early years ‘Ana Rosa’s program’.
At that time, his relationship with Telecinco was having its best moment. so much so that He refused the Spanish Television’s offer to become the head of the meteorological fields Replaces Jose Antonio Maldonadowill retire and is eventually replaced by TV3’s Mónica López.
Source: Informacion
