Why does he want a TV if he works in radio?

This week RTVE's new channel La 2 Cat premiered The second coffee, the current affairs analysis program that airs after the Coffee of ideas by Gemma Nierga. Hence the title. In the end, it's an excess of caffeine, because it offers a morning slot where the content ends up being too similar, the topics are repeated, and the dynamics are alike.

The second coffeePresented by Cristina Villanueva, the show follows a talk show format. In the first episode, the journalist began with an editorial about the need to avoid confrontation and polarization and to focus on the ability to listen and talk about what happens to us and what motivates us. She presented the program as a space for harmony, a place to ask questions, bring sanity to the situation, and reconnect with conversation, appealing to the need to create hope. This speech, full of clichés and platitudes, foreshadowed what we would see later: the same old thing. The panelists, familiar faces from other television programs, offered their opinions on the day's issues: from Pedro Sánchez's appearance before the Senate regarding the Koldo case to the use of dogs to cope with grief. The program also features four reporters who connect live to cover events and weekly contributors who share information on health, wellness, nutrition, or whatever is relevant. But after...The second coffee arrives The loudspeaker in the yardA very strange title for continuing to do, more or less, the same thing as the previous program, but with Marco Chiazza at the helm. More analysis of the day's events, coinciding with many of the topics covered on La 2 Cat throughout the morning.

La 2 Cat has opted for a talk show format in its programming. They may change sets and presenters, but everything is the same. In the height of unoriginality, some panelists are doing double duty: on a Monday they're on... The second coffee and on Thursday in The loudspeaker in the yardThe program will then continue with a new discussion panel, this time about sports, with the Facing the hutAnd there will still be some in the afternoon The speaker with Danae Boronat, who's already been in the loop since last season.

This Tuesday, the program Coffee of ideas Gemma Nierga's program won an Ondas Award for best local radio program, as it's also broadcast on Radio 4. Undoubtedly deserved, because in her political interviews, almost casually, Nierga has the knack for generating headlines that become news stories on both the network's and its competitors' news programs. It's understandable that the format considered the flagship of the Catalan public broadcaster is a hybrid that straddles both media. The problem is that most of La 2 Cat's television programming remains radio-like. They're missing out. The year you were born and A while agoYou can stand with your back to the screen and still follow the content perfectly. A new Catalan-language television venture that, essentially, is radio. And beyond its precariousness, it has failed to demonstrate creativity, originality, or a new approach.