Telemundo cancels the program 'Don Francisco invites you & # 39;

The Telemundo Network confirmed yesterday that it took the decision to cancel the Sunday program & Don Francisco invites you, presenter The Chilean Mario Kreuzberger

"After more than 100 broadcasts," Don Francisco invites you "has completed his cycle and his latest program will be aired in December," said the official message from the channel, which had engaged Kreuzberger in March 2016.

"Don Francisco is a great icon of Hispanic television and is an integral part of the Telemundo family, and we are very happy that he will continue to work with the network and will participate in other projects next year, including several promotions with high level guests ", indicates a text sent to the press.

Although the network has not given more reasons for the decision to eliminate the weekly program Kreutzberger, 77, the results of the measurements In the United States, the audience believe that the "show" did not reach the numbers needed to justify the production costs.

The two largest Spanish-language television networks in the United States have programs in place to reduce production costs. 2017, with layoffs and the decision to manufacture several of its products in Mexico.

Similarly, Telemundo had to make adjustments to integrate the costs associated with the newly signed agreement with SAG-AFTRA, the union of industry workers
Efe tried to contact the Don Francisco's offices, but no answer yet.

This was the career of Don Francisco

Mario Kreutzberger was born on December 28, 1940, son of Erich Kreutzberger and Annie Blumenfeld, a marriage of German Jews arrived in Chile the same year, fleeing the Second World War.

His father, after his birth, decided to emigrate from Talca to Santiago and continue his sewing activity. While he attended primary school at Liceo Comunal de Ñuñoa, and with a very shy character at the time, he quit his studies for a short time and devoted himself to working in the school. his father's business. When he returned, with a stronger and more developed character, he became president of his class.

After traveling to the United States for a year to study sewing and sewing, at 21, he decided that television would be his career. At the time, this means of communication had just begun its transmission to Chile, and its development took place only after the completion of the World Cup in 1962. And although the risk at that time was high, the fascination American television had made it grow.

With the support of his mother, he spent a year waiting in front of the office of Eduardo Tironi – executive director of the Chilean television channel Canal 13 in 1962 – to talk about his projects, up to # This gives him an employment opportunity and decides to bind him to the company.

More Don Francisco

Don Francisco loves making jokes, that's why in his program jokes and jokes are often made. In his most successful period – in the early 1980s – "gigantic Sábados" gave way to the realization of a new program, with a late show format and hosted by Don Francisco; & # 39; Noche de Gigantes & # 39 ;, which was released in Chile from 1980 to 1987, and in the United States from 1988 to 1993.