Before the second season of esRadio

If three years ago, when we were in the midst of resisting the campaign of harassment and demolition in COPE (and winning) they had told us that we were going to have our own radio and with the best programming from COPE and Libertad Digital TV, we wouldn't have believed it. If two years ago, when we were in the midst of resisting the harassment and demolition campaign at COPE (and losing), they had told us again, we would not have believed it either. And if a year ago, when we began a task at esRadio that was as satisfying professionally as it was difficult business-wise, they would have assured us that one day before our first birthday our radio station would be fully consolidated as a national project, with extraordinary programming and finances one of the most sanitized in the guild, we would have taken him for a fool, crazy or architarumba.

But that is our situation today, it is up to her to congratulate herself and, starting tomorrow, get down to business. These three years, the two of Numancia and the one of Cádiz, cover a miraculous, if not glorious, cycle. But if they are to be true, it is convenient to see them as an emotional past, not as a present nap. In a few hours we begin a new era in which the usual must, as almost always, reinvent itself. We have to ensure that, being what we have always been, we do not make Numantine's past the pyre of the present. The worst is surely over. It's time to get better.

The difficult thing this year is going to be getting used to everyday life, to the slow improvement of what exists, to the invention or reinvention of what we did, to the conquest of what we can be without depending on what we have been. The task this season is to consolidate ourselves as a national radio station, improve little by little –because we are in a political dictatorship over the media, which is exercised through concessions, vetoes and prohibitions– our coverage and multiply the initiatives that allow a presence of esRadio in the Spanish media scene. And for this we need Libertad Digital and Libertad Digital TV to be more integrated than ever in esRadio and vice versa. We have the only truly multimedia newsroom in Spain, we have facilities, equipment and a technical base whose talent and originality surprise at every turn. When this 6th at 6th I enter the new radio and television studio, I will be delighted, amazed by the continuous ability to create and recreate, invent and reinvent of all the people, generally very young, who accompany us in this company.

Due to that still recent and undoubtedly important past, our group, journalistic and business, is and will be news. The day the news is not, the urbanejas and weasels of disinformation will have triumphed. This year, not to vary, the news about our old and new alliances will be frequent, from Unedisa to Intereconomy, going through some more. I already anticipate that I would like, for once, all the agreements attributed to us to be true. We will try to make them so, maintaining the independence and freedom that we have always had but strengthening the ground on which we stand. We have survived the extermination order. Now we must settle down, strengthen ourselves, continue to enjoy everything we do and do it better.

I would like to transmit in the 2010-2011 season precisely that: the joy of the harvest remembering the sowing and the joy of each sowing thinking about the harvest. They have been three very hard years, but exceptional. Now comes something even more difficult: getting used to day to day, getting up early without being woken up early and going to bed without being put to sleep and without sleeping anyone, except, of course, the one who comes to sleep with us. In De la noche a la Mañana, I summarized in the last sentence what I learned in Antonio Herrero's life: "do each program as if it were the last". Today I must add: "and thinking that tomorrow it will be the first again".

Anyway.