Jordi Basté denounces censorship by TV3 and the television opens an internal investigation

BarcelonaThe management of TV3 will open an internal investigation to find out why a mention of RAC1 was censored during Monday's broadcast of the play Dones de ràdio after Jordi Basté reported the case on El món a RAC1. During the Davantal segment, the journalist explained that in the play, the character played by Àngels Gonyanols makes a mention of RAC1: she is a journalist who works at a successful station and specifies that it is RAC1. Instead, when TV3 broadcast the play, the mention of RAC1 disappeared.

Specifically, in one scene, Gonyalons' character says: "I host a radio show on one of the country's main stations. It's RAC1, I don't know why I'm hiding it. It's an evening magazine show, where I can do quite a bit of my own thing... and have a large audience. I mean, on the radio, I'm also the queen." However, the phrase "It's RAC1, I don't know why I'm hiding it" was not heard in the recording that TV3 broadcast. Basté has assured that they have contacted the theater company and they have confirmed that on the day the play was recorded, the phrase was spoken.

During the Davantal, Basté said: "TV3 is a television station that is too important, too beloved, and has too much history to allow itself a pettiness like this. Censorship, even when it lasts only two seconds, is not measured by the time it occupies, but by the mentality it reveals. And here it reveals an extraordinary lack of class: that of someone who, unable to bear the name of their neighbor, prefers to mutilate a work rather than coexist with reality. 'It's RAC1, I don't know why I'm hiding it,' the text says. We also don't know why they are hiding it." The host of El Món a RAC1 recalled that the station has always supported TV3.

The management of TV3 has been in contact with El món a RAC1 and explained that they were not aware of the events, which they condemn. For this reason, they have assured that they will open an internal investigation to find out what happened and that, once they have the conclusions, they will take the appropriate measures.