La Noria
La Noria (Spanish for ""The Ferris Wheel"") was a Spanish talk show produced by the company "La Fábrica de la Tele" which aired on the Spanish television channel Telecinco from 2007 to 2012. The show was hosted by Jordi González and his special collaborator, Sandra Barneda, although it was Gloria Serra who helped him several years before. It aired weekly, every Saturday at 0:30 am. On 14 April 2012 its last episode was aired. After that the show "El gran debate" took its place. Broadcasting milestones. "La Noria" began broadcasting on 25 August 2007 during prime time. From  then on, it would air weekly, hosted by Jordi González and Gloria Serra. The show was born to wash off the aggressive-hearted image that its predecessor, "Sábado Dolce Vita" (previously called "Salsa Rosa"), had left on the TV channel. Since its beginning, "La Noria" gathered a historic average of 17.4% share rate and almost 1.9 million viewers, thus making it by far the most viewed TV show on the Saturday night slot, close to four points and over 400,000 viewers more than Antena 3's offer (13.8%). On 24 April 2010, Gloria Serra, who had been the show's  co-host from its start, left Telecinco to work for Antena 3 in an unsuccessful TV show called "3D". Sandra Barneda took her place on 1 May. Something that caused many of the channel's advertisers to leave was the episode on 29 October 2011, during which they interviewed "El Cuco"’s mother. "El Cuco" had been accused for the murder of Marta del Castillo. That day, a great part of Mediaset España's advertising companies broke their contract, which caused the company to lose a huge amount of money, and Telecinco even considered cancelling the TV show, after over  four years of broadcasting. However, to avoid that, Mediaset created a new TV show which was really similar genre-wise, although more serious: "El gran debate" (Spanish for “The great debate”), taking "La Noria"’s time slot. "La Noria", consequently, would air during the late night slot, and so it did from 24 January onwards. In the end, the show was removed from the TV programming. Format. "La Noria" addressed social issues by interviewing celebrities and organising political and social debate tables, together with investigative reports. Sections. The show was divided in three main sections: Special Shows. Beyond the weekly  broadcast on Saturdays, Telecinco put as well on air eleven special programmes: Controversies. Interview to Rosalía García, mother of "El Cuco". This interview generated great controversy. It all began back on 29 October 2011, when the programme interviewed Rosalía García, mother of Francisco Javier García Marín (alias El Cuco), suspect of having murdered young Marta del Castillo. It seems that "La Noria" paid El Cuco's mother an approximate quantity of 10,000 euros. The fact that the programme paid such a quantity to this woman made Pablo Herrero, journalist and blogger, asking for the withdrawal of the programme advertisers. This  triggered an unprecedented chain reaction resulting in protests from the audience in social networks and the withdrawal of all the advertisers, as they disagreed with the interview. These were such well-known brands as Nestlé, Campofrío, Puleva, Bayer, Banco Sabadell, La Razón, Bimbo, Vodafone, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Ausonia, L’Oréal and El Corte Inglés. This situation reached its limit on 29 November, when "La Noria" was entirely broadcast without advertising, except from the usual self-promotion of the channel. Due to the reduction of the income for the channel, they decided to suppress two late night programmes non-related to the  original controversy, such as "Enemigos Íntimos" (Spanish for "Close Enemies") and "Resistiré, ¿vale?" (Spanish for "I Will Resist, Okay?"), in which some of the media called the "white tide" and others described the "great Ferris wheel effect" as an attempt to clean the image of the channel. Then, the media published that the channel was gifting the possibility of being advertised on "La Noria" in an attempt to get back the advertisers. In the next broadcast, adverts were mainly made up of self-promotion and minor advertisers. Among the brands which were on that broadcast, Vitaldent, Securitas Direct and Microsoft  announced that they wouldn't advertise themselves on that show again and Securitas blamed "wrong media planning" for the broadcast of their spots. A week later, the programme returned with minor advertisers. However, two well-known brands advertised themselves for the first time in the programme since the beginning of the controversy: Burger King and Conservas Isabel, both companies subject of criticism in social networking sites. Only Conservas Isabel apologised for it, and informed of their withdrawal from "La Noria". Finally, to get the advertisers back during prime time, Telecinco set "La Noria" aside until the late night showing (from  12.00 a.m. to 2:30 am), and created "El gran debate", which was broadcast on Saturday from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. since 14 January 2012, with the political contents and the same collaborators who made the political section in "La Noria". On 25 April 2012, Telecinco announced that "La Noria" would be suspended, and stopped its broadcast. One year after this controversy, and after a complaint submitted by Telecinco 19 November 2009, it was known that the blogger Pablo Herreros had been charged and called to testify because of an alleged offence of threats and intimidation. Immediately after, support was  provided to Herreros by internet users and a new on-line initiative was created by journalist Mario Tascón asking for advertising companies to remove the ads of Telecinco until the complaint against Pablo was withdrawn. This initiative received more support in 24 hours than the original campaign achieved in three weeks. Tascon’s petition was signed by more than 170,000 people who also put pressure making phone calls and sending messages through social media to the brands advertised by the television network, which consequently led these brands to ask the television broadcaster to reconsider it. Telecinco decided to withdraw the  complaint against the journalist after meeting Pablo Herreros on 27 November 2012. Average audience of every installment. During the more than four years where the show was broadcast (it started on 25 August 2007), "La Noria" was the head TV programme on its time slot on the Saturday evenings [ST?].