Throughout the day, all Argentine channels, broadcast and cable channels that are dedicated to news, had special programming dedicated to coverage of the elections. As the day became more critical, so did the coverage. At 5 p.m., one hour before the close of the elections, most of the channels started with their special programs.
At 6:00 p.m., when the election ceremony ended, all the channels began to implicitly publish the first figures they had. Making efforts to talk about specific data or trends, all channels faced the need to comply with providing information without official data. Thus, on all the screens you could see that the trend of a probable runoff was taking shape. All channels began to echo this reality, although depending on the screen, who was involved in that hypothetical second round changed.
At C5N, the atmosphere of relaxation and excitement was evident. Far from the climate of unease that prevailed on other occasions, Sergio Massa’s good performance at the polls meant that in the official signal “they showed their chests” about the management of the current Minister of Economy. Without explicitly mentioning it, they made it clear that, based on the data they had, Massa was the candidate with the most votes.
On the other side of the rift, in LN+, they resorted to a different strategy. Although they tried to maintain a certain expectation for the progress of Together for Change, they focused on talking about the possibility of Jorge Macri winning the City of Buenos Aires without a ballot, and thus avoided talking about the results at the national level. that would place Patricia Bullrich as the third most voted and out of the runoff. The channel’s coverage, then, turned to live reporting of the results of various tables from which they received results. From Ushuaia to La Quiaca they were listing various tables and reflecting on the data that each of the minutes they had let them see.
In TN the tone was similar and they opted for a debate table in which they tried to reflect on the first official data that was emerging.
On air television, meanwhile, the coverage tries to be more formal and in fact, many of them chose to join the election day only when the elections closed. Telefe started the day with La Peña de Morfi, which occupied much of the afternoon, until around 6 p.m. they aired Flash news: Elections 2023, hosted by Rodolfo Barili. It is worth remembering that the other face of the channel’s central newscast, Cristina Pérez, is not part of the electoral coverage due to her relationship with Luis Petri, Patricia Bullrich’s vice presidential candidate.
Net TV, for its part, has a special program hosted by Santo Biasatti and Nuria Am, and they started the day with a summary of what was known so far: the increase in the citizen vote, the consensus of a scenario second round and that the first results will be known between 10 and 11 p.m.
El Trece aired the film Looking for Justice during the afternoon, which ended shortly before 6 p.m., when it joined the duplex with TN to experience election day. Marcelo Bonelli and Dominique Metzger were the journalists chosen to host this informative fragment titled Decision 2023. “Run-off scenario,” he reported on plates with white letters with a blue background.
América also opted for the duplex with A 24 and at 5:45 p.m. the central block called El País Chooses, a special edition hosted by Rolando Graña and Soledad Larghi, began. “Urgent. Results in moments,” the plaque said and Graña spoke. “We are talking about crucial editions with expectations like rarely seen,” said the driver.
While waiting for the official data to arrive, all the channels are working full time and juggling to provide information until reliable figures arrive.
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