Award-winning investigative journalist Nuria Piera has signed on to direct CDN, Channel 37. Her company Provideo signed a strategic alliance with the television station. Juan Cohen signed for the station. Piera said that her company would direct and produce the station’s news services. Her Channel 9 Saturday 9pm TV show is already being televised on Mondays in a repeat on CDN and she said will continue to appear on Channel 9 and on Mondays at 8pm on CDN. The show has aired with high ratings since its launch on 17 January 1987.
Piera announced the new format would air in late February or early March. “We are going to strengthen the already existing structure,” she said. She replaces Osvaldo Santana, a highly regarded newspaper journalist, as reported in El Caribe, of the same media group.