The world of television mourns the loss of one of the journalists who left his mark in the first years of private networks. José María Carrascal, the legendary presenter of the first news programs Antenna 3has died this Friday at the age of 92 at his home in Madrid.
According to inform El Mundo, the lifeless body of the communicator, who lived alone, was found by a friend, who notified the emergency services, who finally confirmed his death.
Carrascal was one of the most recognizable faces from the first years of Antena 3’s life as television thanks, among other things, to his characteristic ties or to narrating the arrival of private television in our country. After his return from the United States, the journalist hosted ‘Noticias at eight’ and, from 1990 to 1997, he directed ‘Noticias de la noche’, marking his own style of reporting. Outside the realm of newscasts, he also presented the program ‘We are all human’ with Xavier Sardá in 1996.
“TV was a surprise for me. I still remember the day the phone rang in my United Nations office, where I was a correspondent for the newspaper ‘Abc’, and it was Luis Ángel de la Viuda, director of Antena 3 Radio, with the who collaborated from time to time, to tell me: they have given us a TV and Manolo (Martín Ferrand) wants you to do a news program,” said the communicator in an interview with EL PERIÓDICO.
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In addition to his television career, Carrascal has collaborated for various media outlets such as Pueblo, Diario de Barcelona, La Razón and, among others, ABC, a newspaper in which he continued to write to this day, in addition to writing more than 20 books of various genres. .
At the same time, throughout his 65 years of professional career, the communicator has also received important recognition for his journalistic work and as a writer, such as, for example, the Nadal Prize for his novel ‘Groovy’ (1972), the Mariano Prize from Cavia, the Luca de Tena (2021) and the Antena de Oro, among others.