“There’s a live marriage proposal!“. Tony Moreno interrupts the New Year’s celebration at Canal Sur from the Sierra Nevada. The director clicks on the image: on one knee, someone is proposing. Romanticism in full swing from 2025 to 2026. “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in my life,” Toñi shouts with a spontaneity that lives the love of others. as if she was being asked to marry him, a free woman, freed from the ring.
And this broadcast from the Andalusian regional channel itself turned out to be free and liberated. Because lately, Chime specials focus a lot on the presenters, but it’s hard for them to go off-script with what’s happening wherever they are.. A good show is one that’s smart about telling what’s happening in the location you’re in.
For example, in the twelve grapes, Ramón García always had an eye for what was happening among the festivities at Puerta del Sol. And the technical means were much less than today. Thus, in 1998, when the chimes were broadcast with Raffaella Carrà, another master of knowing how to listen on a small, big screenthey quickly realized that there was a nudist attracting the attention of the crowd at kilometer zero in Madrid. And they did not forget it like those who are not communicators do. Of course, they pointed it out. Because television is about knowing how to render details, which is generally much more interesting than what is predicted to capture people’s attention. an audience that wants above all to feel accompanied by accomplices capable not only of seeing, but above all gifted in knowing how to look.
And, in this change from 2025 to 2026, the director of Canal Sur was attentive and immortalized a moment that gave color to the hackneyed clichés of the routine presentation of the twelve grapes. Toñi of course took advantage, along with his teammates Enrique Romero and Ana Hinestrosa.
In the United States, cameramen recording New Year’s Eve in Times Square always have a couple ready to kiss when it’s midnight. Very new, but also very forced. The image is a classic, it is repeated every year where it seems that the party without imposed love is less love. Side effects of the Hollywood we grew up with and which invited us to believe that the happy ending always comes with a kiss under a shower of confetti.
On Canal Sur, on the other hand, the happiness of love was not programmed into the program’s script. This is the right note for the curious television craftsman. Because communicating is observing, not just talking to the camera. Although in the age of navel-gazing on social media, we forget.
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