The meteorologist and Mediaset ended their professional relationship in 2014
Mario Picazo has become one of the protagonists of social networks this summer for your weather warnings and its tricks to predict the weather. The meteorologist is a well-known face among viewers in our country for having been the main face of Telecinco’s meteorology, a channel from which He left abruptly in 2014 and after more than 19 years of professional association.
In the month of April 2013, Picazo criticized the program Four ‘What am I doing here?’, accusing him of plagiarism on Twitter, something that was decisive for Paolo Vasile to lose confidence in him. This led to a breakup and an agreed exit between both parties that took place early in 2014, when the team that took over from the chain’s meteorology team was closed.
“It seems completely incomprehensible to us that a person like Mario Picazo, who has been part of Mediaset España for so many years, resorts to Twitter to communicate his differences. Surely he has not seen yesterday’s program in its entirety and knows nothing of the following” , Mediaset stated through an official spokesperson at the time.
Various sources consulted by this portal at that time confirmed that although Mario Picazo’s current contract ended on December 31, 2013 an extension had been agreed for a short period of time to give Mediaset time to find a new team and thus proceed to a “quiet relief”. In fact, at that time, YOTELE already anticipated that the relationship between both parties was tense, anticipating his departure before he communicated officially.
During those 19 years, Mario Picazo was one of the oldest and most beloved faces of Telecinco. He had been with the network since almost the beginning of its broadcasts and has never stopped getting in front of the screen to tell viewers the weather information, combining it with other entertainment formats as host of ‘survivors‘ or ‘Clever’in addition to collaborating in the early years of ‘The program of Ana Rosa’.
At that time, his relationship with Telecinco was going through its best moment. So much so that rejected an offer from Spanish Television to become the head of its meteorological spaces replacing José Antonio Maldonadowho was going to retire and who he finally replaced Monica Lopez, coming from TV3.
After what could be considered the sweetest stage of Mario Picazo in Telecinco, at the end of 2008 he experienced his first crisis with the chain due to the reformulation of his contractual relationship. Paolo Vasile decided to outsource his weather service proposing new conditions to Picazo that did not convince the meteorologist at first, but that he finally ended up accepting after Florenci Rey, responsible at that time for the weather information at Cuatro and Cadena SER, made an offer that the meteorologist’s company ended up matching .
His new commercial relationship with Mediaset allowed Mario Picazo to maintain his position as head of meteorology at Telecinco but to be able to work with other networks at the same time. A) Yes, Picazo created in 2012 with his production company the format ‘Extreme Climates’which ended up broadcasting La 1 de TVE and which had previously been offered to Vasile, obtaining a negative response from him.
Four episodes of this program were broadcast at late night, with an audience of almost 1.2 million viewers and a screen share close to 10%. The data was insufficient for the public network to renew it for a second season as it could not count on a brand to sponsor it.
With this situation, Picazo returned to the offices of Fuencarral to offer the second season of ‘Extreme weather’ for broadcast on Cuatro. Again, the executives dismissed its issuance.