Carlos Cuerpo will be the first interviewee of Javier Ruiz on 'La Última Hora' (The Last Hour), the program with which the journalist will lead the nights of La Séptima. The premiere will arrive this Thursday, November 5, at 9:00 p.m., coinciding with the start of the channel's broadcasts.
The interview will open a new stage in which political news and electoral monitoring will have a prominent role. During the presentation of the program, Ruiz has advanced that the space will combine information, data, and conversation, with the intention of incorporating another perspective into the television debate. "We want a dialogue and we want to incorporate another viewpoint," defended the journalist, who expressed his desire to intervene in the issues that mark current events: "We also come to set the conversation."
'La Recta Final' (The Home Stretch): a commitment to daily electoral monitoring
One of the main investments of the program will be 'La Recta Final', the section dedicated to observing the evolution of voting intention every day. The monitoring will begin with the premiere and will continue until the last day that electoral legislation allows polls to be published.
Ruiz explained that the objective is to know how the electorate moves as events unfold. "We are going to monitor each piece of information and what immediate impact it has on voting intentions. What is happening is so powerful that it can change from one day to the next," he pointed out.
The journalist highlighted the size of the contracted demoscopic work, whose accumulated sample could exceed 16,000 interviews by the end. "We are at very, very exceptional levels of demoscopy," he affirmed.
To explain the usefulness of this monitoring, he referred to a recent news item: "What impact does Oscar Puente's resignation have?" His proposal is to offer a daily reading of electoral movements, without waiting for the publication of weekly polls. "This has an impact today, and we should read it today," he maintained. The section will occupy the first fifteen minutes of the night slot, according to the programming announced by the channel.
Current affairs at night and cinema with debate on Saturdays
La Séptima's nightly offering will have its daily appointment at 9:00 p.m., although Saturday will feature a different proposal. Ruiz has announced the revival of a film format accompanied by conversation, inspired by La clave. "We are going to bring back cinema and we are going to bring back a conversation with people who know what they are talking about and who talk about what they know," he explained.
That space, 'La Séptima Pantalla', will not be available during the first week. The journalist has placed its incorporation in the second or third week of broadcasts. The proposal will combine a film with a subsequent debate on the issue it raises. On Sundays, programming will once again focus on current affairs with 'La Última Hora'.
Ruiz also spoke of the difficulties of launching a television station and the preparations that still remain to be completed. "We are going to start as we can, we will do what we want later," he acknowledged.
The journalist defended that the channel will have defined values, but will also be open to viewers who do not share them. And he closed his speech with a commitment on how to practice journalism: "We are not going to become what we came to fight."
