• 3 June 2007, doctor Gutiérrez Caracuel, from
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío (
Seville), sued the show as some images of his that were filmed by a hidden camera were published on a discussion devoted to football player
Antonio Puerta’s decease. • In March 2008, Gestvision Telecinco was sentenced for manipulating an interview broadcast on
La Noria to Carmen Flores, head of
Asociación El Defensor del Paciente (Spanish for "The Patient's Defendant Association"). • In September 2008, an argument between
María Antonia Iglesias and
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, both co-workers of the talk show, ended up with terrible insults and personal attacks.
Interview to Rosalía García, mother of "El Cuco" This interview generated great controversy. It all began back on 29 October 2011, when the programme interviewed Rosalía García, mother of Francisco Javier García Marín (alias El Cuco), suspect of having murdered young Marta del Castillo. It seems that
La Noria paid El Cuco's mother an approximate quantity of 10,000 euros. The fact that the programme paid such a quantity to this woman made Pablo Herrero, journalist and blogger, asking for the withdrawal of the programme advertisers. This triggered an unprecedented chain reaction resulting in protests from the audience in social networks and the withdrawal of all the advertisers, as they disagreed with the interview. These were such well-known brands as
Nestlé,
Campofrío, Puleva,
Bayer,
Banco Sabadell,
La Razón, Bimbo,
Vodafone,
Mercedes-Benz,
Audi, Ausonia,
L’Oréal and
El Corte Inglés. This situation reached its limit on 29 November, when
La Noria was entirely broadcast without advertising, except from the usual self-promotion of the channel. Due to the reduction of the income for the channel, they decided to suppress two late night programmes non-related to the original controversy, such as
Enemigos Íntimos (Spanish for
Close Enemies) and
Resistiré, ¿vale? (Spanish for
I Will Resist, Okay?), in which some of the media called the
white tide and others described the
great Ferris wheel effect as an attempt to clean the image of the channel. Then, the media published that the channel was gifting the possibility of being advertised on
La Noria in an attempt to get back the advertisers. In the next broadcast, adverts were mainly made up of self-promotion and minor advertisers. Among the brands which were on that broadcast, Vitaldent,
Securitas Direct and
Microsoft announced that they wouldn't advertise themselves on that show again and Securitas blamed
wrong media planning for the broadcast of their spots. A week later, the programme returned with minor advertisers. However, two well-known brands advertised themselves for the first time in the programme since the beginning of the controversy:
Burger King and Conservas Isabel, both companies subject of criticism in social networking sites. Only Conservas Isabel apologised for it, and informed of their withdrawal from
La Noria. Finally, to get the advertisers back during prime time, Telecinco set
La Noria aside until the late night showing (from 12.00 a.m. to 2:30 am), and created
El gran debate, which was broadcast on Saturday from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. since 14 January 2012, with the political contents and the same collaborators who made the political section in
La Noria. On 25 April 2012, Telecinco announced that
La Noria would be suspended, and stopped its broadcast. One year after this controversy, and after a complaint submitted by Telecinco 19 November 2009, it was known that the blogger Pablo Herreros had been charged and called to testify because of an alleged offence of threats and intimidation. Immediately after, support was provided to Herreros by internet users and a new on-line initiative was created by journalist Mario Tascón asking for advertising companies to remove the ads of Telecinco until the complaint against Pablo was withdrawn. This initiative received more support in 24 hours than the original campaign achieved in three weeks. Tascon's petition was signed by more than 170,000 people who also put pressure making phone calls and sending messages through social media to the brands advertised by the television network, which consequently led these brands to ask the television broadcaster to reconsider it. Telecinco decided to withdraw the complaint against the journalist after meeting Pablo Herreros on 27 November 2012. == Average audience of every installment ==