It’s not Lionel Messi, neither Giuliano Alvarez neither Enzo Fernández, but something related to them. Videos showing the ‘Boys’ like children sharing the dream of playing in a World Cup they have something of those old newspaper clippings in which we read that, many years ago, Dominique Metzger dreamed telenoche. It was his World Cup.
And now, without the black cloak or the captain’s ribbon, the ascent without more arrogance than that of work. What led her to step on each of the pieces of her journalistic journey: she started answering an incoming phone Breakfast (the first morning news on TV, produced by his father) e He continued to trample each step, without skipping a single one..
Because his thing was to advance – little by little, but it was – forward and upward. And that girl who was fascinated to see Mónica Cahen D’Anvers handle the threads of what she was -for decades- like no other the best Argentine newscast now occupy your chair. She is officially the new host of telenoche next to nelsoncastro (at 20, from El Trece).
And yet, it continues to be -or at least it is perceived- those kind of people who touch the sky with their hands, but take care not to take their feet off the ground. Simplicity, humor at hand, simple language, research to shorten the distance between the news and the viewer they bring her closer.
In the the antipodes of the gored style, explains that “it feels fresh, natural, I don’t know, it won’t push me away. I am also public and I like to be informed clearly, to understand. I hate solemnity. You can be credible, serious and reliable even from colloquialisms”.
The new duo of the program that Mónica inaugurated on January 3, 1966, together with Tomás Eloy Martínez and Andrés Percivale, tried out as a replacement couple during the holidays, but before the definitive departure of Diego Leuco and Luciana Geunawere left on the field, in a kind of continuity without a launch party.
Nelson & Dominic
We note the good alchemy, enhanced by the difference in styles and trajectory. In them there is a doctor and a chef. There are two journalists trying to recapture an audience they have found telenoche to the best newscast Not in vain won 15 Martin Fierro. And she took the gold statuette in 2000.
– Let’s hope they don’t become those couples who fight in front of the camera to see who gets the last sandwich.
-No, it won’t happen, we play for the same team. that other one, something i love came up along the way and i asked nelson to stay forever. I tell the air to close with a sentence from him: “Let’s start with good humor and sportsmanship”.
daughter of Edward Metzger -historical television producer- e Maria Cristina Gonzalez -former recruitment manager at Channel 9 and the old Channel 11-, grew up in the canal corridors, spying behind the scenessharing tables with friends like Monica, “my idol”.
The family album generously shared by one of his sisters He finds them walking with Mónica and Césarby chance.
A few days before this note with clarionDominique called her on the phone.
And, from his loving bunker in San Pedro -where mourning after the death of a partner, in every sense of the word- he told her “that she was very happy, that she congratulated me again. That she liked the couple, that we’re professionally serious people, but I knew we’d put a smile back on Telenoche. This marked me a lot: that, in addition to informing, Don’t forget to make people smile”.
Although there is a recording – a video provided by the Metzgers to this journal – of the first steps little Domi took at a family partywith microphone in hand, it was not in his initial plans to work in television.
I said as a girl that when I grow up, “I would be an ambassador to the world”. And then trained as a chef and finally entered Breakfast, but not as a culinary columnist, despite the title of the cycle inviting you to wear an apron. Behind the camera felt the need to study journalism and studied at TEA.
only early in the morning
Now with its North more defined, 15 years ago joined TNin a streak that didn’t seem optimal, but was the best for her. It was to work what I wanted and what I knew.
It debuted on January 1, 2008, covering early morning on the street, from 0 to 7: “I entered as an engine replacement, in a somewhat hostile task, with accidents, fires, transport disruptions, insecurity, but I could not refuse because I believe that opportunities must be exploited. If I asked for another shift, I was afraid they would never call me again. and from then on everything was step by step and beautiful”.
Far from those who speak of their paths as flukes or surprise blessings, he acknowledges that “I haven’t had a meteoric rise, mine has always been pick and shovel and repeat. I spent a year and a half in that time and thought no one in between would see my work, that I wouldn’t get a chance to be challenged in anything else.
-And what did you want, exactly?
-He didn’t pretend to appear, just to see what he did more. My deepest desire was to reach Telenoche. And, after two years, one day I arrived.
Was it the cover for your life?
-Not exactly, but me I was giving an account of my life and I never forget it. They sent me to the Hudson Turnpike, I think it was a long weekend. He reported how many cars passed per minute.
– Were you free like now?
No, but it wasn’t that bad. It happens that I wrote everything down and leaned on my papers for more security. I was told “air” and I sent
At the time, the newscast was hosted by Maria Laura Santillan and Santo Biasatti. She confesses, her mind fixed on that note, that “maybe I could have done a little better, but no one will ever take away from me the happiness I had that day. It was on the show that I had watched all my life”.
Knowing how to wait, to make the leap
And, 13 years after that debut, now it’s your turn to share the reins of leadership. You know that Telenoche It’s not what it used to be anymorebut that he can be serene again: “He is going through difficult moments, with which I see it as a huge challenge. The intention is for him to recover the place he had among the people. It has always been journalistic excellence.
She admits that she feels “revolutionary. And the phone call came as a surprise. Because, moreover, I was thinking of that maxim that you say like this “Whoever makes substitutions is never a starter”. And I’ve been several summers in collaboration with Fede Wiemeyer”.
As if viewing his work on a monitor, he describes his style as “natural, fresh, without cassette, very close to people. And one of my virtues can go beyond that, for the fact that I’m not telling you as “the one on TV” would tell you, but as someone you know. Therefore, what I could never do is imposter. I speak and show myself as I am. Y in this I feel very Monica”.
-And what would be the conceptual portrait of Nelson?
-Nelson is a super loving guy, he takes great care of each other. And he does it very genuinely. He’s a great team player who doesn’t need to count his career. He listens a lot, interacts and relates with a unique clarity and depth. It’s still one. And if you have to go to the corner, or wherever, with a cell phone it’s without drama. Huge mate. Neither of them are superstars and that adds up.
-They don’t handle the same kind of humor, right?
-No, but we are finding our way back to the meeting point. I bite into it a little and it immediately grabs everything. And he’s not the type to take offense if I say something to him.
-Anything, like what?
-Put it, the other day we were talking about a gambler’s wife who was dancing at the carnival and I said that I didn’t understand where he kept the concheroWhy did you see that he doesn’t have bandages on his side? And she lifted the glove real good and said “This is called the intergluteal line”. And that moment was amazing.
From Devotee to Qatar, and back with a prize
Between his coverage that has left his mark on TN and telenoche include the one with the ashes in Bariloche, the one in the city of Junín when he received a stone in the face (2013), the one with the Oscars in 2017 and the freshest, from the streets and stadiums of Qatar, during the World Cup won by the Argentine national team: “That trip was wonderful, fun, intense, with a lot of teamwork.”
-And, when you came back, you had a prize…
-They told me to drive telenoche with Nelson, but took it as another replacement. And then I heard a “We want to see what happens” And here we are, in glory.
He is no longer on Continental radio which is why he now splits between two jobs: 1-4pm driving our afternoonfrom TN, and from 8pm to 9.15pm, telenoche. “I spend it on the channel and I admit I love it. The TV is a very comfortable place for me, it’s like I’m safe”, says those who arrive between 11.30 and 12 and leave at 22.30 heading to his apartment in Devoto, close to his family.
television woman, Your first contact of the day with current events is through your mobile phone., looking at news portals, and then, yes, “a little TV”. Knowing she’ll have “lots of TV” from the inside afterward.
Monica’s word
Your phone returns praise and congratulations on your new role. And an appointment with his father refreshes him for these days: “He told me to meet up to tell me a few things about how he sees me… I’ll tell you later”she promises relaxed, knowing that what she will tell him will be on full knowledge of the facts.
At this point in the speech, he recalls a bit of the conversation he had with Monica recently: “She told me she wished me the best and who knew that El Tata (Cesare Mascettidisappeared in 2022), from above, he was watching us”.
After that silence that imposes emotion aiming at the soulDominique adds that “definitely there too it will be my dear Edgar”. She talks about Edgardo Antoñana (died 2017), with whom she put together one of the best duets in TN.
In that morning segment on the weekends, he started to show off his range of tools, his relaxed manner, his ability to empathize and…without wanting it, but wanting it, which is not the same thing– was building its own runway to reach the chair on which, more than 30 years ago, her friend Mónica could have done her make-up.
Source: Clarin
