The Kirchner-based television channels C5N and the recently launched Canal Extra are in an artistic dispute because the rapporteur and journalist Víctor Hugo Morales decided to name his program the same one he had when he worked for Cristóbal López and Fabián De Sousa: La hora de Victor Hugo.
From C5N they intimidated the owner of Canal Extra, the lawyer Franco Bindi to change the name, because it was a brand of theirs and he made only a subtle alteration: he added the word “extra” and now it was La Hora Extra de Víctor Hugo.
Who is the new boss of Víctor Hugo Morales? Bindi is always close to power. He is a friend of Evo Morales and the Government of Venezuela and was a lawyer for Lázaro Báez. He is a well-known lawyer in the corridors of Comodoro Py, where stories about him have been built based on truths and also on mere assumptions.
He is 38 years old and, out of nowhere, he set up a multimedia that has a television signal called Canal 4 Extra, from a station that they named Radio Extra and from the news portal business.com.ar. All media that, at first glance, seem to target Kirchner audiences in an election year.
The television license was granted last year to a company called Mariv Media Partners, in which Bindi has 90 percent of the shares, while her partners are Manuel Marvaso and Antonio Rivarola with 5% each. Marvaso owns a radio and a portal called Eco Medios and Rivarola is a producer of audiovisual content and previously worked as an employee at Aerolíneas Argentinas.
The presence of Victor Hugo on her channel plays a double role for Bindi. It will have a weighty figure for Kirchnerism and also a factor of conflict with Grupo Clarín, which must include the channel in the Flow grid because Enacom gave CC4 Extra authorization to broadcast nationwide, that is, all cable operators of the country must upload it to their grid, within the package of cable signals specialized in news. What happens if Clarín puts obstacles to include the channel? Bindi, having Víctor Hugo Morales in his team, has a rhetorical weapon to attack Héctor Magnetto for possible discrimination. The enmity between Morales and Magnetto is well known and even had its judicial chapter a few years ago, which ended in favor of the Clarín shareholder and the journalist with his assets seized.
