Àngels Barceló says goodbye to SER with a message: "I am already the left-wing page and now it's time to complete the right-wing one"

BarcelonaThe change at the helm of the leading radio program in Spain, the Hoy por Hoy of Cadena Ser, took effect this Thursday. Àngels Barceló surprisingly said goodbye to the audience at the end of the program, alongside her team, with a message hidden in a metaphor: "It's the last Hoy por Hoy I'm doing. It's over. Be happy for me, please – she told her colleagues–. We turn the page. I am already the left page and now it's time to complete the right page," she pointed out, and the rumors that speculate that her disagreement with the company's management has political connotations, which Prisa denies.

It hasn't even been three weeks since the Prisa group announced that Barceló was leaving the station, after 21 years. For seven years she had been directing the morning show, which remains a leader with more than 3.2 million daily listeners. "We're leaving, Sastre, with the best audience, with historic figures," the journalist remarked on air. She also said that for now she is going on vacation "without losing sight of the information".

A week after the announcement, it became public that Barceló's replacement would be Aimar Bretos from Donostia, the current host of the evening magazine Hora 25. Today the station's programming has been finalized, and it has been announced that Barceló's right-hand man, the Valencian journalist and writer forged at Ràdio Barcelona, José Luis Sastre, will be directing precisely Hora 25, a program that Barceló had previously directed (2008-2019).

Thus, the SER will have three men at the head of the three main news programs of the house, as Carles Francino will continue to lead the afternoon.