El pasado sábado nacía un nuevo miembro de una de las dinastías más importantes de la crónica social. Su particular nombre es un bonito homenaje.
Durante mucho tiempo me obsesionó con mantener verano a verano en el mejor estado posible mis bañadores, pero ya he dado con la clave.
Minuto30.com .- Movimientos sorpresivos sacuden la parrilla de programación de una de las emisoras más escuchadas del país. Las directivas de Blu Radio decidieron ponerle fin al programa ‘Mesa Blu’, el espacio matutino de análisis y opinión conducido por las reconocidas periodistas Camila Zuluaga y Ana Cristina Restrepo.
La drástica decisión fue tomada directamente por Gonzalo Córdoba, presidente de Caracol Televisión (compañía matriz de la emisora). Según trascendió, la cancelación del espacio radial obedece a las constantes dificultades que venía presentando el programa para alcanzar los niveles de audiencia esperados, lo que a su vez derivó en una caída en el respaldo de los anunciantes comerciales.
Cambio en la parrilla matutina
El equipo periodístico en pleno, encabezado por Zuluaga y Restrepo, fue notificado oficialmente de la determinación de la compañía durante la jornada de hoy. Con este anuncio, se cierra el ciclo de las comunicadoras en esta estratégica franja de la mañana.
Ante la salida de ‘Mesa Blu’, las directivas decidieron no crear un programa de reemplazo ni contratar un nuevo equipo. La estrategia para cubrir el vacío horario consistirá en ampliar el programa principal de la emisora.
De esta manera, ‘Mañanas Blu’, el espacio informativo dirigido por el periodista Néstor Morales, que tradicionalmente empalmaba con el programa de Zuluaga a las 10:00 a.m., extenderá su emisión dos horas más, acompañando a los oyentes de manera ininterrumpida hasta las 12:00 del mediodía.
Dolly Parton is on course for her first-ever No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart following a posthumous surge in streams for her signature hit “9 To 5.”
Penned for the 1980 comedy film of the same name, the song stands as one of Parton’s most iconic and beloved numbers, and hit a new peak of No. 12 on last week’s chart (Aug. 28). Yet “9 to 5” is now striding towards the summit in the chart’s midweek update (Aug. 30), which would give the country music icon her maiden U.K. No. 1 single. In a press release, the Official Charts Company reports a 350% week-on-week increase in streams and sales.
Parton is also set for a major presence elsewhere in the upper reaches of the U.K. chart. Having previously reached No. 7 upon release, “Jolene,” her 1973 classic, is currently tracking at No. 2, while Kenny Rogers collaboration “Islands in the Stream” is up to No. 6.
Last Tuesday (Aug. 25), it was announced that Parton had died in Nashville at age 80 after a brief battle with cancer. The singer, songwriter and philanthropist had been mostly out of the public eye for the past 12 months following a struggle with unspecified health issues that forced her to cancel a planned 2025 Las Vegas residency.
In honour of an illustrious career spanning several decades, in 2024, Parton was named the top country artist of all time by Billboard staff. She also landed 49 albums in the top 10 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, the most of any woman. 2023’s Rockstar, a collection of rock covers and originals with appearances from Paul McCartney, Elton John, goddaughter Miley Cyrus and more, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking her pinnacle on the chart.
Elsewhere on the midweek update of the Official U.K. Singles Chart, Alex Warren could land two new entries in the top 40 following the release of his second album, Wildchild. “Cry Wolf” currently lands at No. 21, while “Emerald Eyes” follows at No. 23. Dua Lipa’s 2024 track “Training Season” is also set for a return to the chart, currently at No. 36 following the release of her Training Season’s Over EP, which features multiple live versions of the song.
Olivia Rodrigo could meanwhile add another chart entry with “Serena Joy,” her politically-charged track named after the character from The Handmaid’s Tale. The song lands at No. 39 following Rodrigo’s appearance at this past weekend’s Daisy Chains Festival in Irvine, California, where she performed it live.
Kacey Musgraves paid tribute to Dolly Parton again at her Madison Square Garden show in New York on Monday night (Aug. 31) by getting spacey, as she does. The singer discussed how hard it is for her to believe that Parton, who died last week at age 80 following a brief battle with cancer, is not part of our universe anymore.
Musgraves told the crowd that Parton was a “supernova of a person,” according to Rolling Stone, sharing with the crowd that the thing that gives her solace is that Parton’s “soul and her bones are literally part of this galaxy, this universe, the fabric of space and time. I definitely, for sure, I would not be able to stand up here and do what I do if I hadn’t been for Dolly Parton.”
A few days earlier, the singer switched up the run order at TD Garden show in Boston on Friday (Aug. 28) to pay homage to Parton just days after the “I Will Always Love You” star’s death by bringing back her Golden Hour ballad “Rainbow” back into the set. After dedicating it to Dolly, she then dove into Parton’s 1977 Billboard Hot 100 No. 3 hit “Here You Come Again.”
On Monday, Musgraves was at it again treating the MSG audience to a kicky cover of Parton’s 1981 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 smash “9 to 5,” after confessing, “I’m not over it. And I’m never gonna be over it.” With photos of Parton playing on the big screen behind her, Musgraves added, “The world definitely lost a light, and it’s hard for me to talk about. And I know how much Dolly meant to everybody also in this room. I think why it feels so dark is it’s already hard to navigate these times right now, and then we lose a matriarch like that. It’s the closest thing we’ve ever had to royalty.”
Musgraves is one of dozens of artists who’ve taken time out of their shows over the past week to pay tribute to the towering Parton, who is being remembered not just for her epic run on the Billboard charts over more than six decades, but also for her kindness, compassion, good humor and charitable works.
Parton was buried in a private family funeral in Nashville on Friday (Aug. 28).
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