Since she was 15 years old, Xantal Llavina (1975) has been clear that she wants to be a journalist, but with a family of entrepreneurs, she opted to graduate in journalism and business: "I'm a humanities person and accounting was a bit complicated for me. In fact, I begged the teacher to average my grades with the theoretical exams because I would never be an accountant, only a journalist. A year later, when I was already on television, I ran into the teacher and she told me that I was right, that I wanted to be a journalist," she explains. Restless and hardworking, Llavina has ended up building a career that goes far beyond journalism.

It's probably the most repetitive format. We can find it in the morning, at noon, and at night, on the radio and on television. Antonio Villarreal has decided to analyze it in Tertulianos (Peninsula), a journey through 40 years of the opinion industry in Spain, and a photograph, at the same time, of a sector that moves between precariousness and power.

When Roger de Gràcia (Barcelona, ​​1975) explained to his mother that he was going to write a book about the social phobia he has suffered from since childhood, she warned him that he would never get hired again. That doesn't seem to have been the case. Since the publication of Tell me, crazy. In 2023, De Gràcia continued working on the podcast We keep our word. from Catalunya Ràdio, and with Júlia Otero on Onda Cero. In his book, and also in the conversation, the body, the head and drink appear, as a habit, as a learning process and as a limit.

Since last September, Elisenda Carod (Barcelona, ​​1981) has been at the helm of The solutionThe Catalunya Ràdio program, which seeks answers to big questions and debates, airs every day starting at 1:00 PM. The presenter takes over the new time slot after four seasons on [the previous program]. The afternoon on Catalunya Ràdio and of becoming a mother for the first time.

After four years as a correspondent in the United States, Francesc Garriga (Súria, 1983) takes on the challenge of leading The afternoon of Catalunya Ràdio, the public broadcaster's afternoon magazine that rivals the RAC1 version, of Toni Clapés, undisputed leader of the range.

This Monday marks the start of the radio season, and Catalonia's two main stations, Catalunya Ràdio and RAC1, are approaching it in very different ways. While the public radio station has shaken up its programming and is launching new programs, the Godó Group's radio station maintains the model that has given it leadership and allowed it to make history by surpassing the threshold of one million listeners.

The transition year to meet the minimum of 25% Catalan songs on the radio is drawing to a close, but stations are still clinging to significantly lower percentages. The Platform for the Language has conducted a study according to which the country's seven main stations offer barely 12.4% of music in their own language. If measured in minutes, given that Catalan songs are often played at the end of the time slot to be cut off when the broadcast arrives, the figure drops to just 7.7%.

This week, RAC1 celebrated its 25th anniversary and success. It celebrates at a sweet moment, having surpassed the psychological barrier of one million listeners in the latest wave of the EGM (General General Election). It is the leading radio station in Catalonia, the fourth in the entire country, with a diverse and intergenerational audience. The sheer volume of this success is all the more remarkable because, in these 25 years, we have experienced the explosion of the internet and digital media, and the news and entertainment offerings have multiplied. And not only have they multiplied, they have also globalized, which has been a problem—another—for Catalan-language media. But RAC1 has maintained its privileged position thanks to the talent of its professionals, the accuracy of its programmers, and a virtue that is easier to proclaim than to exercise: identification with a very broad stratum of listeners. The station's great merit is having found the right tone, something that isn't listed in any manual, something that money can't buy. A fresh and playful tone, compatible with my journalistic vocation and the ambition to be present in those moments when turning on the radio is a necessary ritual. I was fortunate enough to be part of it with a program –Absolute minority– which made me enjoy myself like never before. And I feel very satisfied.

Metaphorically in the dark, because I begin writing these lines at 4:30 in the afternoon, when it's still a splendid day and, on the other side of the editorial office windows, people are crossing the street up and down, without it being obvious that our world has turned upside down simply by turning off a main switch. Now a child has seen me writing and, knocking on the door excitedly, said, "Dad, there's light here!", unaware that I'm writing with the reserve of two hours and eleven minutes of battery life left in my laptop. There's a generator, of course, but we're reserving it for those who keep the website alive, just in case. And we're ready to go to the Liceu—thank you!—to continue working and ensure the publication of the newspaper if our reserves finally run out. Since Wi-Fi is also rationed, I decide to do the analog thing of going out into the street and asking people how they're getting information about what's happening. I'll be back.

The National Court confirms that radio host Carlos Herrera paid more than two million euros in taxes incorrectly in the years 2006 and 2007. The ruling, to which the court has had access, The Confidential, The National Court dismisses the journalist's appeal and states that during those years, Herrera allegedly used a "business network" to invoice his contributions to the media, saving himself up to €2,115,670.29 in taxes. According to the Tax Agency, through these companies, Herrera allegedly paid corporate tax on the contributions, and not the corresponding personal income tax bracket, thus avoiding paying more. The National Court considers that this procedure would not be correct because the income would actually have been the result of the journalist's "personal" work, and that his companies could not contribute anything. According to the Court, his company "acted as a mere collection agent," when the work would not be "attributable to it but to the partner, since it was the one who actually carried out the work invoiced to the clients."

Catalan radio audiences They are extraordinary. According to the General Study of Media published yesterday, the fourth most-listened-to radio station (the focus is Spain) is RAC1, with one million listeners, more than Radio Nacional in all of Spain, and the seventh is Catalunya Ràdio, with 777,000. To understand the strength of Catalan-language radio in Catalonia, these figures can help: the two Basque channels combined make up 270,000 listeners, Canal Sur reaches 239,000, and Radio Galega 118,000. Anyone who wants to reach Catalan society must go through Catalan channels.

A silver anniversary for the Ràdio Associació Awards, which celebrated their 25th edition with a list of winners that highlights the broadcasters' most socially responsible role and the projects that preserve the medium's memory, as its centenary draws to a close. The top awards went to Barça plays on RAC1 (award for excellence), the documentary Women of Radio, the Radio Sound Archive, the Women on the Air project, the veteran radio host Ricky Romero (famous for working with Pere Bernal on programs such as In my own way), DANA coverage by À Punt, Alzira Radio, Aldaia Radio, and Ricard Ustrell (in the category of best professional). The awards will be presented at a gala in the foyer of Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on May 15th, at a party that is usually the main social gathering for Catalan-language radio and which this year will be hosted by Marta Romagosa and Antoni Clapés.

The facts are more important than the journalistic report that explains them, but we wouldn't be remembering that today marks forty years since Barça won the championship in Valladolid if it weren't for Puyal shouting "Urruti, I love you!" over Radio Barcelona.

Joan Maria Pou (Barcelona 1974) is a journalist. Since 2000, he has been reporting on FC Barcelona matches for RAC1.

She lost her mother very early. "My mother died very young, at 26, when I was seven months old. Then we went to live with my grandmother in Sant Gervasi, until I was 12."

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After the footballer Marc-André ter Stegen harshly attacked the Don't let him out of here from Catalonia Radio to spread false information about his wife's alleged infidelity, the program pauses momentarily in order to reflect on how to make social chronicles in a rigorous manner. The three presenters of the program, Roger Carandell, Juliana Canet and Marta Montaner, explained their decision this morning during an interview with Ricard Ustrell. "We are affected because we have caused pain and that makes us sad. We do not want this to happen again, it is something we have learned and that we are going to apply from the first minute," Montaner has reflected. The team has explained that since yesterday they have been reflecting on how to improve and set limits, so the Don't let him out of here will stop broadcasting for a period that has not been specified, but which will probably be one or two days. "We need a few hours to digest what has happened and see how we can improve the programme," Carandell said.

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Controversy between two of the most powerful radio voices in Catalonia. The president of Òmnium Cultural, Xavier Antich, has sent a letter this Thursday to the director of Catalunya Ràdio, Jordi Borda, to protest against statements by Ricard Ustrell that would attack the journalist and spokesperson of the entity, Mònica Terribas. This is what he announced The World of TV, which explains that the letter asks the public radio of Catalonia to take "measures" to repair "the reputational damage" that Ustrell's statements have caused in the entity.

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This week, when we celebrated Radio Day, I remembered that when I was little, I used to play at making programmes, with theme tunes and all that. I had invented the name of a radio station, Radio Cataplasma, which, incomprehensibly, no one has ever used. Radio is the medium in which I started out as a journalist, it is where I wanted to work. I began to learn the trade, and so many other things, partly because I had the immense luck of sharing the five years that the programme lasted with Joan Barril and a team of fantastic people. The Republic on COM Ràdio. I still remember the pride I felt the morning a taxi driver recognized me by my voice: "You are Anna Guitart from The Republic? "Aquest Rai with whom you speak on the phone, is Rai Barba?" I'm going to explain that he escorts every morning, that he connects with everyone, and feeling part of it is going to be very special.

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