Mario Pergolini

Who is Mario Pergolini?

Mario Daniel Pergolini is an Argentine journalist, media producer and businessman, best known as the former main host of the television show Caiga Quien Caiga broadcast on Argentina's Telefe.

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 and Hacelo por mí, but it was CQC the most successful of them all.

Pergolini is the Argentine TV host seen introducing the Ramones in the documentary film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones.

In 1994 he created, together with partner Diego Guebel, the Cuatro Cabezas 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. The Israel TV version did not catch with Israeli audiences and was discontinued after half a season.