Carolina Sarassa and Paulina Sodi had never been together until a year ago, and from not knowing each other they became the perfect duo for the ViX morning. From Monday to Friday from 7 to 9 AM, from the TelevisaUnivision streaming they tell us the news with the professionalism of their experience, but as if they were two friends who have known us all their lives.
They are aware that their career is to give good information, in an entertaining way, covering all the items of life and at the same time keeping the public’s attention, how? Carolina and Paulina themselves tell us about it in this exclusive interview they gave us from their own set of the hit ViX show.
-What does it feel like to be part of the family’s awakening?
Carolina Sarassa: It is a wonderful thing to accompany so many people on a daily basis in ‘ La Voz de la Mañana’, who are waking up, who are on their way to work or school, accompanying them, informing them, who can know what awaits them for their day, for their week, right Pau?
Paulina Sodi: That’s right, it’s a huge responsibility that we have in our hands, it’s a 2-hour program live and in streaming, where the capacity of the viewer is different from the usual TV. We don’t have an audience where it’s at home, where it’s constantly listening to us, here the interest of the audience is now around 15 either 20 minutes, where they have all their attention on us, on what we are saying. So, it is an enormous responsibility to provide reliable data and timely information at the moment, instantly, and also to do it in a dynamic, fun way, so that they have fun and get hooked on us.
–How does he fit the two of you in a show that is not the same to do it in the afternoon, at noon than to meet your morning moods?
Paulina Sodi: We are two completely different personalities, but at the same time we complement each other with many common tastes. For example: the love towards animals, in particular towards dogs, which we constantly say on the news. Getting up is difficult, we are not going to lie to you, we love what we do, but getting up at 4 in the morning is difficult, our team gets up even earlier, to be with the information, but it is so nice, it is a team who get along so well, they contribute ideas, not only in terms of production, the technicians, the cameramen, contribute, add, participate, and that makes it very pleasant to work with them. So, that it’s at 4 in the morning doesn’t bother you, because you go to a place you like, that you have a good time, that you enjoy it and I think that is transmitted to the air.
Carolina Sarassa: I think people always have that complaint, that the day only lasts 24 hours, my day I think does last exactly few 24 hours. In my case I have 2 small children at home. For example, last night I bathed the girl and she put a finger in my eye, it is super red, but fortunately there are eyelashes, there is makeup that allows us to see ourselves a little more awake than we really are. I leave here, after ‘Digital Edition’, at 1 in the afternoon, I get home in zombie mode, but I get to be with my children, which is something wonderful.
Like Pau would say yes it’s true, here we all contribute to what is ‘La Voz de la Mañana’, we are in the middle of a segment and suddenly our cameraman raises his hand and says: “Hey and what if in the next intervention we do this ”… And little by little we are putting together what you see on the air, because that is so early that many times we arrive, and we are barely putting together what you are seeing, which will go on the air in a matter of 5, 10 either 15 minutes.
Paulina Sodi: Even at the minute , when there is last-minute information, they tell us and as the information comes out, we give it, and we leave, as we would say, shaking hands, she contributes what she receives , I am going to find all the data, and in this way we complement each other in terms of information, so that people have up-to-the-minute, first-hand information.
Carolina Sarassa: We should talk like this ( with signs) because sometimes Pau is still talking, and I want to tell her something and she is very serious talking and I (with signs).
Paulina Sodi: But now we read each other, that’s a process which has cost us because we had never worked together, but we already read each other, we already know when someone has something to say or has additional information.
-Paulina, what is the best and the not so top of Caro, and Caro what is the best and the not so top of Pau?
Paulina Sodi: I think the best thing is that we have adapted in a fabulous way. In a year that we have been working together, I feel like we have been working together for much longer. It has been a way of working together, very easy, very smooth, I would say very sweet, when I say doing it.
The not so top, I really do not focus on negative things, obviously there are days when I have one way of thinking and she has another, but we find a way to make both points of view known, because there will be people who will identify with her, and there will be others who will go with me, so it all adds up.
Carolina Sarassa: I love Pau, who is always so informed about everything in her work, so Seriously, my work is so important to me, I have four babies: Noah, Chloe, Digital Edition and La Voz de la Mañana, and I love knowing that I have a colleague by my side who cares just as much or more, our newscast, I I am delighted to know that Paulina will never arrive and will see a piece of news without knowing what are you talking about, so that respect that I have for my work, is also shared by Paulina… It is a wonderful team that little by little we have been getting to know each other, and it was good that we did not know each other because we came from nowhere, we they launch, we were more presenters, then they say there were 2 presenters, and we are so different, but we have the human essence that is the most important thing.
–What is the difference from the back side of TV or streaming or the telephone, between TV and what they are doing now?
Carolina Sarassa: I think immediacy is something wonderful because on television sometimes we have to wait for That moment comes when he is going to do the news, here in streaming we are live with you, there is news that is happening in this second and we have the opportunity, the governor speaks, we speak with the governor, during the hurricane we had the opportunity to be live for 5 consecutive hours, taking them direct Wherever the news is and also the topic of the phone, people can see us. The other day we were on a trip, and someone told us in California, who drives trucks, that he listens to ‘La Voz de la Mañana’ while he is working in his truck, so that cannot be made on television.
Paulina Sodi: Apart from the immediacy, the speed with which you have to report, the dynamics are different, the attention span is different, you accompany people in the activities, it’s not like they catch you, like it’s on TV and they keep doing their things and they hear a word that catches their attention so they turn around and go see what’s happening. Here they are taking you their day to day, they take you to the gym, they take you in the car, they take you to the office and they are paying attention to you, so you have to find a way to capture that attention and keep it as much as possible, so that they stay with you, because at any moment they are going to be other things, they are going to get up from the desk, they are going to leave the gym, they are going to get out of the car and they are lost.
– Does immediacy create more responsibility at the time of reporting?
Carolina Sarassa: Yes, I totally agree, clearly, because it is something so immediate that it has just arrived that you have to make sure that it is the correct information, we have such a great responsibility, we are 24 millions of Hispanics in the United States, we are only a few how many days of mid-term elections, and the Hispanic people in particular, I feel that they trust so much in what they see in their news, especially mind in the TelevisaUnivision brand, in ViX, they trust in what Paulina Sodi says, in what Carolina Sarassa says, in what Jorge Ramos says to make their daily decision, imagine the importance of any phrase that comes from ‘The Voice in the morning’. I would never want someone to make a bad decision and say: “It’s that Carolina from the newscast told me”… So it’s always like treating the information as we would tell it to a brother, a friend, with the best of intentions, to that person make their best decision of the day, because we are talking about the lives of our viewers.
Paulina Sodi: We also have a really professional team, in which before we have the information to be able to share it, they already reviewed it and reviewed it and reviewed it, so we trust our team in such a way that yes, in the case of our producer, which is Leida Anzona, she tells me: “This is what is happening”, I fully trusted her, in what she is telling me, that what she is giving me is true, and that I have the responsibility to report but truthfully, so it is a chain to avoid errors.
– if i had to Say 3 keys to the success of ‘La Voz de la Mañana’, what would they be?
Paulina Sodi: Spontaneity, yes, because sometimes we go off script and start doing things.
Carolina Sarassa: True.
Paulina Sodi: And I think dynamism, because we went from a political debate, to an interview with a doctor, to an interview with an artist, to start dancing salsa or whatever they make us dance, and I dance more than Caro, but I think that would be it.
Carolina Sarassa: I think it would also be in the voice, because we are the voice of all of you. When someone sees ‘La Voz de la Mañana’, from 7 to 9 in the morning through the ViX platform, they can know that they can have the most informed conversation of their days, if they go to a date you can know about politics, music, what is stuck. Pau mentioned it very well, we have here our executive producer, Leida Anzola, and we are a wonderful team too, where women shine, this morning I was thinking about it, Jessica Delgado was there, Socorro, Daniela, Paulina, Carolina… More and more women in power, I like that.
-What do you say to the public that you accompany and at the same time they accompany you?
Paulina Sodi: Thank you , thank you very much for trusting us, thank you for trusting this new streaming service that is ViX and ViX Pluss, for trusting this new concept that is ‘The Voice of the Morning’, and we strongly ask you to share us with those people that they are not seeing us yet, so that this family gets bigger every day.
Carolina Sarassa: I would say that I am proud of each one of you, that we love hearing your stories, people who nothing have come to have everything here in Esta two United, that empower us every day, that inspire us. Here at ‘La Voz de la Mañana’ I get very excited every time we have the story of a person who had nothing in this country, and suddenly opened a cleaning company and now it’s creating millions of jobs. Nothing very proud of you, it is a privilege that you allow Paulina and Carolina to inform you every morning, accompany you, because this is teamwork, you are ‘La Vo z de la Mañana’, you are the ones who bring all that desire to work.
Paulina Sodi: But we must highlight, they see us in the United States, but they see us in Mexico, in Latin America, Spain , Colombia, is a country that gives us a lot and that they write to us a lot, we focus on information from the United States, but they see us in many places and that fills us with great pride and great gratitude.
Carolina Sarassa: We are number one on ViX
Paulina Sodi: Don’t tell anyone, but yes.
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