Mario Daniel Pergolini (born July 3, 1964, in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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) is an Argentine

Argentina

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 journalist, media producer and businessman, best known as the former main host of the television

Television

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 programme Caiga Quien Caiga

Caiga Quien Caiga

Caiga Quien Caiga , also known as CQC, is an Argentine television show. Under the format of the production company Cuatro Cabezas, and led by Ernestina Pais, CQC has also been adapted in Spain, France, Chile, Italy, Brazil, Portugal and briefly in Israel and the Netherlands.It won an International...

(CQC) broadcast on Argentina's Telefe

Telefe

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.

He started working at the Rock & Pop radio of Buenos Aires. He moved to TV as a secondary figure at Pepe Eliaschev's Cable a tierra and then Juan Alberto Badía's Badía y Compañía. In 1989 he hosted Rock and pop TV together with other radio figures. Probably his first successful TV shows were the teenager-rebel program La TV ataca (1991–1993) and Hacelo por mí (1992), but it was CQC (first aired in 1995) the most successful of them all.

Pergolini is the Argentine TV host seen introducing the Ramones

Ramones

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 in the documentary film

Documentary film

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 End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones is a 2003 documentary film about highly influential New York punk rock band the Ramones. The film, produced and directed by Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia, documents the band's history from their formation in the early 1970s and 22 subsequent years of...

(2003).

In 1994 he created, together with partner Diego Guebel, the Cuatro Cabezas

Cuatro Cabezas

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(or 4K) TV production company, which is now one of the three most important media holdings in Argentina. He still hosts CQC and his radio show Cuál es? at Rock & Pop.

The CQC format has been sold to several countries (Chile, Brazil, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, and Israel). The Israel

Israel

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 TV version (anchored by Avri Gilad

Avri Gilad

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) did not catch with Israeli audiences and was discontinued after half a season.

Pergolini retired from CQC (and, per his words, from television) on 15 December 2008. His last program did not include any special retrospective, but Pergolini criticized Telefe's management on the air (arguing that they cannot threaten him now) and joked with his colleagues Eduardo de la Puente (also retiring) and Juan Di Natale, who was still hosting CQC in 2009. http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1081326&pid=5534733&toi=6266

External links

• Pergolini TV history (Spanish)
• Cuatro Cabezas corporate website (Spanish/English)