Matías Prats Cañete

Matías Prats Cañete

Bust of Matías Prats Cañete on Villa del Río
Born (1913-12-04)4 December 1913
Villa del Río, Córdoba, Spain
Died 8 September 2004(2004-09-08) (aged 90)
Madrid, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Occupation Sports announcer and radio journalist
Spouse(s) Emilia Luque Montejano
Children Matías, Juan Jesús, María del Carmen

Matías Prats Cañete (4 December 1913 – 8 September 2004) was a Spanish radio and television journalist. He was best known for his sports narrations and for being the narrator of the No-Do during part of the franquism period.[1]

He is father of Matías Prats Luque, who is also a journalist and anchor on Antena 3 and grandfather of Matías Prats Chacón, a sports host in Telecinco.

Career

Shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War Prats began his career as assistant on Radio Algéciras, later he moved to Málaga where he worked as announcer of bullfights on RNE and shortly after as football announcer.

In 1945 he returned to Madrid following the inauguration of the new RNE studios in Arganda del Rey. In 1947 he was promoted to head of the Department of Performing Stations and from the same year until 1971 he was responsible of the writing and speeching of the Noticiarios y Documentales Cinematográficos (No-Do).

He also worked in Televisión Española since its inception in 1956 until 1965 as announcer of football matches and bull fightings, credits on TVE include Pantalla deportiva (1959), La Copa (1963), Graderío (1963) and Ayer domingo (1965). He retired on 1985, however, works in radio ended on 1974.[2]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Matías Prats, el pionero de la radio española". El País. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Biografía de Matías Prats Cañete" (PDF). Retrieved 2 May 2014.
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