The Edition of News of the Morning Brazil on Friday, July 18, was agitated. The first half an hour of Bauru’s Radio Auriverde news in the interior of São Paulo followed the script of every day, with the reproduction of the national anthem and the insertions of merchandising, when radio administrator and host Alexandre Pittoli received the information that A in Brasilia. “We were caught by surprise and started a flight without instruments, which is never pleasant,” recalls Pittoli, who began to update the news minute by minute.
In the studios, Pittoli was trying to mark interviews with right -wing politicians, but no one responded to messages. , Radio Auriverde has become one of the main communication vehicles of pockets, housing the guidelines of the political field, including conspiracy theories against the electronic ballot boxes.
Every day, they go through the microphones of the Brazilian Morning News, such as the federal deputies of PL Carlos Jordy (RJ) and (MG), as well as the cast of commentators, graduates of the young Pan – Rodrigo Constantino, Alexandre Garcia and Cristina Graeml. Six hours long, the newspaper is Auriverde’s flagship and is also broadcast on YouTube.
As there is no information investigation, the purpose of the program, says Pittoli, is to analyze the political scenario under the pocket bias. In addition to the presenter, they always participate in the newspaper Gabriela de Ângelo, who passes on the news published by the main press vehicles of the country, and commentator Eduardo Borgo, councilor in Bauru by the Novo Party.
With 2 million subscribers on YouTube, Auriverde’s audience on the platform has, on average, 37,000 simultaneous spectators, according to the presenter. On the morning of PF operation, o. In addition to the morning, the daily grid is also made up of a sports program and local news. In recent times, the radio began to transmit the Bolsonarist Protests.
According to Pittoli, Auriverde’s revenue occurs with advertising and youtube monetization. There is no, he says, financing from political groups. It is common to hear, during the newspaper, comments in, like the one made by Pittoli last month. Therefore, the auriverde received from Youtube a “shadowbanning”.
The English term mentions a platform technique to restrict a particular page, even if the user is frequent. “How do I have an audience today and tomorrow I have less audience? I’m aware that I built on the ground of others, but I think the clearest relationship with the big techs would make my work easier as a businessman,” he says.
In any case, the Auriverde has gained the importance it has mainly for two reasons. Firstly, the station now has the old audience of young Pan. In 2017, the Auriverde joined the communication network to leave a picture of economic crisis, but was expelled from her after the 2022 elections.
At that time, the young pan moderated the editorial line, and fired commentators, some absorbed by the Auriverde. At that time, the young Pan had already entered the sights of the prosecutor, with the diffusion of false news during the election period. For the same reason YouTube had decided to dismantle the radio channel. Even so, Pittoli did not accept the change in the editorial line.
At a Senate hearing, he even accused the young Pan of making a deal with the authorities, without making it clear which to “surrender” his journalists. Pittoli is the target of an action for moral damages, on which he does not comment, given the proximity of the hearing in court. Sought, the young Pan did not comment.
A second reason for Auriverde’s popularity is the sympathy that Bolsonaro himself has for the radio. There are already 14 interviews granted to the station, since he met it two years ago, through the senator (PL-SP), who is a native of Bauru.
Founded in 1956, Auriverde had a common schedule for local radio in almost seven decades of existence. Most of the time, he was led by Airton Daré, owner of Bauruense, a company of the logistics business.
With his death in 2011, the radio became part of Daré’s estate, now administered by Pittoli. The right turn was from a comment made two years ago by the presenter about a. The comment generated a large audience.
“It’s all live, no prank or clipping. The word is franchised to Bolsonaro, as would be the other authority. I wanted to interview Lula and some minister of the Supreme. They would have doors open,” says commentator Eduardo Borgo.
In Borgo’s view, there is a state of exception in Brazil, and the tariff must be understood as one. “The tariff is an act of American sovereignty. If this is the measure to restore the democratic order in Brazil, what we cannot accept is to become a Venezuela,” says Borgo.
