Marc Giró leaves RTVE and signs with La Sexta

BarcelonaMarc Giró leaves RTVE and signs with La Sexta for his own show. The Catalan broadcaster joins the Atresmedia group and will be part of the channel with a television project set to premiere in 2026. Giró arrives with a solid profile thanks to his career, which combines intelligent humor, social analysis, entertainment, and LGBTQ+ advocacy. His new network has not revealed the premiere date or the format of his new show, although it has been suggested that it will continue to be based on a combination of interviews with celebrities and humor.

Giró has had a rising career from radio to television. late night television. After his time in Madrid, Girón He returned to Barcelona in 2019, where he began the You first on RAC1, which airs Monday through Friday and is the leader in its time slot. In 2024, he made the leap to television with Late show It aired on La 2 and in 2025 it consolidated its position on La 1 with its own program. There, it maintained strong audience figures, averaging 878,000 viewers and an 11.6% market share. In Catalonia, it garnered 90,000 viewers, representing a 9.6% share. share.

His name has been one of the most sought-after in recent years in the market television. TV3 wanted to commission a late show, after the ill-fated Free trade zoneHowever, the fact that he was leading a daily program on RAC1, a competitor of Catalunya Ràdio, made it difficult to reach an understanding with the broadcaster – who collaborated on theIt's happening—since the public broadcaster didn't see this simultaneous presence as compatible. Later, this criterion was relaxed, and the offer was renewed, but Giró ultimately ended up signing with La 2 and broadcasting in Catalan. The success of his incisive and clearly ideologically driven program quickly propelled him to RTVE's flagship channel, which, under the presidency of José Pablo López, has strengthened its role as a counterweight to more right-leaning private channels like Antena 3 and Telecinco.

In promotional interviews for the last season, Giró admitted to having received offers "from all the television networks," without giving details. It was reported that one of the networks that had approached him, for a weekly program with a larger budget, was the Atresmedia group, owner of Antena 3 and La Sexta. It is La Sexta that has finally secured him, thus reinforcing its image as a left-leaning television network, with figures like Jordi Évole, Ana Pastor, El Gran Wyoming, and, in the coming weeks, Marc Giró. In fact, the commentator had already participated in several of the network's programs. Channel surfing and Public Mirror or as the presenter of the pre-New Year's Eve broadcast that the Neox channel holds every December 30th.