Aimar Bretos will be who replaces Àngels Barceló in the morning show of SER

BarcelonaInternal reshuffle at Cadena SER. The leading station in Spain has announced that Aimar Bretos will direct the morning magazine Hoy por hoy from next season. He will thus replace Àngels Barceló, who last week it was reported had decided to leave the station, after 21 years, despite heading the most listened-to program on the dial. Internal tensions between the program's host and the editorial director of Prisa's station, Fran Llorente, ended up causing the breakdown between the journalist and a station that was asking her for format changes, seeing that her immediate rival, Carlos Herrera from Cope, was dangerously approaching her.

The breakdown can also be seen as a replica of the earthquake that shook the media conglomerate last year, when a series of shareholders and executives close to La Moncloa frustratingly tried to set up a television and ended up being expelled by the group's president, Joseph Oughourlian. Barceló did not directly participate in this internal mutiny, but her departure was considered at the time – as was the case with the director of El País, Pepa Bueno–, although in the end it was decided to keep her on the microphones.

Bretos (Sant Sebastià, 1986) currently presents the nightly program Hora 25 on the station, and has done so since 2021, a program that Barceló had previously led. He knows the morning slot well because he was one of Carles Francino's key figures when he was presenting Hoy por hoy, and also later, with Pepa Bueno and Gemma Nierga. On April 29th, he debuted on La Sexta, where he alternates with the weekly show La noche de Aimar, which is having discreet ratings of 4.3%, below the channel's average. His appointment can be interpreted as a gesture by Prisa to refute theories put forward by various media outlets claiming that Oughourlian has decreed a rightward shift of the group's media outlets.