Mario Pergolini

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Mario Daniel Pergolini (born July 3, 1964 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine journalist, media producer and businessman, best known as the main host of TV programme Caiga Quien Caiga (CQC) broadcast on Argentina's Telefé.

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.

In 1994 he created, together with partner Diego Guebel, the Cuatro Cabezas (or 4K) TV producer 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.

Pergolini is the Argentine host seen introducing the Ramones in the documentary film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2003).

The CQC format has been sold to several countries (Chile, Brazil, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain, and Israel). The Israel TV version (called in Hebrew language as "Hamatzav") did not catch with Israeli audiences and was discontinued after half a season. In Italy they changed the name and called it Le Iene.