After several failed attempts to recover its intruder throne, Jorge Rial He was again one of the most feared and decisive journalists in Argentina. He no longer fights with Vicky Xipolitakis or Carmen Barbieribut with political power.
Its fire power is concentrated in Carnival streaming, which has it as a visible face, on Radio 10 and in its “Argenzuela” cycle by C5N, where the “coimagate” audios that put the government against the ropes and influenced their electoral defeat were widely disseminated.
But the paradoxical of this journalist, born in the heat of the Chimentos, is that today he stands as the paladin against official corruption, but yesterday he had a doubtful past, linked to extortion and unre transparent practices.
His ex -wife and partner told him Silvia d’Auro In a report that gave News in January 2013 under the cover title “Confessions of a repentant partner”. She assured that her then husband, with whom they shared the producer Ideas+Ideas, kept sensitive information to use it in moments of foreign weakness and also “charged” money in black leaders in exchange for media protection. D’Auro spoke with knowledge of cause since the commercial management of the company passed through his hands. One of the strongest textuals of that interview:
NEWS: Does he say that politicians literally sent motorcycles to deliver money?
D’Auro: It is an expression that he used a lot. When he saw a certain cable channel that was sold recently, he said: “Che … it seems that the motorcycle did not arrive … how they are squeezing it.”
News: Who paid him? It is an accusation too strong.
D’Auro: (Smile). Look at the sponsors, look at the PNT of the program, the key is there. Look where you attend, what events it drives …
It seems that the passage of time whites. The truth is that since Javier Milei He is president, his cycle “Argenzuela”became an unexpected rating phenomenon that even exceeds air signals such as America, public TV and channel 9. Its sustained average of 5 points doubles and even triples to the rest of the cable news programs, with the exception of TN that on certain occasions touches the 4 points. Proof of this was on Monday after the provincial elections, when it reached 6.2 points, near the historical record of 7 obtained on June 10, 2025, when the sentence to prison of Cristina Kirchner was confirmed.
ESCUDEROS. Seconded by journalists Paulo Kablan, Mauro Federico, Mauro Fulco and Diego BrancatelliRial retains the same codes of his era of “Intruders.” His monologue at the beginning of his program, his iconic curtain, “You’re The First, The Last, My Everything” by Barry White, although now without a dance, but distilling mystery and secrets halfway reveal. Its intact formula, addressed to another audience. If I discovered lovers before the protagonists of television, now the audios of origin not very clear to politicians.
From the C5N management they provide with Champagne. A signal producer confesses to news: “Even if he doesn’t say it openly, Rial is happy with this president. Because he is convinced that he found an enemy at his height.
Ask for his anonymity to be respected, he deepens his analysis: “It is not Macri that he had the entire mouth apparatus, much less Cristina. Milei allows Rial to be him at its expression and the rating the emboldery. It is in his sauce.” And he adds: “In the Management of the channel they are happy for the numbers that it measures, which are the envy of all cable signals. This ideological resistance is benefiting us, because we loyalty with our audience, even much more than with Cristina in power. We also have an impact on networks and on the street as never before.”
Strategic algorithm. If repeating formulas it is, Rial does so as decades ago. That is why it is the visible face of its media spin such as the Carnival streaming channel, the signal that the “Conclave” cycle has just launched with Viviana Canosa, Fabián Doman and Alejandro Fantino.
Stalking ghosts. In this media rebirth, Rial coexists with several shadows that stalk it. The mysterious escape of the country of his former partner, Mariana Antonialewhich was installed in the US after the separation of Rial and never wanted to talk about what had happened in the couple; Your daughter Morena Riallinked to marginality with a cause by robbery, and the very Luis Venturawhich went from being a friend to fierce enemy.
“Jorge Rial is one of the most hated people in the middle. America breathed relieved when he took it out,” says a former producer of “Intruders” who worked with him at the time of separation from the most mentioned duo. “Rial was demanding even with the flavored coffee that had to take Starbucks with its cereal bar because it was taking care of. It generated terror in its producers and nobody said anything. The only one who dared to stop him in his ways was Marcela Tauro”
After some personal crises when he left his historic Chimentos program, Rial is back, with his old role of intruder, but now in politics. His effective methods – although not very transparent – marked the media agenda again.
All flatter this new rial favored by rating, but few remember that their past also condemns him.
