# How do Colombian and Mexican telenovela practitioners describe the role of ratings in decisions, and where do they resist it?

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Gaitan (Colombia, 2014) calls the rating 'a necessary evil' that punishes and rewards and says he cannot claim not to care. Ibarra (Mexico, producer, interview 2000) says he is very aware of the weight of ratings, that his TV Azteca/Argos serials were accepted with difficulty by wide audiences, and that he relied first on statistics (older women with younger men) which the author's instincts and later audience reaction contradicted in his account. Neither source says that a rating figure changed a specific plot. Scope: two practitioners, two countries, different roles (writer/producer).

Gaitan (Colombia, 2014) calls the rating 'a necessary evil' that punishes and rewards and says he cannot claim not to care. Ibarra (Mexico, producer, interview 2000) says he is very aware of the weight of ratings, that his TV Azteca/Argos serials were accepted with difficulty by wide audiences, and that he relied first on statistics (older women with younger men) which the author's instincts and later audience reaction contradicted in his account. Neither source says that a rating figure changed a specific plot. Scope: two practitioners, two countries, different roles (writer/producer).

Curator qualifications: Ratings acknowledged as pressure by both practitioners; neither says a rating figure changed an identifiable plot; Ibarra overrode audience statistics for narrative consistency.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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- [sourced_fact] Gaitan (Colombia, 2014) calls the rating 'a necessary evil' that punishes and rewards and says he cannot claim not to care. Ibarra (Mexico, producer, interview 2000) says he is very aware of the weight of ratings, that his TV Azteca/Argos serials were accepted with difficulty by wide audiences, and that he relied first on statistics (older women with younger men) which the author's instincts and later audience reaction contradicted in his account. Neither source says that a rating figure changed a specific plot. Scope: two practitioners, two countries, different roles (writer/producer). · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-14885112

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