The Academy rewards the talent of professionals behind the cameras

Blanca Ricoy, Carlos Fernández, Enrique Romay, Francisco Amescua, Francisco Antonio de Tena, Francisco Romacho, Jorge Horacio Fernández, Juan Alberto Valenzuela, Juan Andrés García Ropero Bropi, Juancho García Barrecheguren, Mario López, Mario Moros, Paloma del Río, Paulí will up talent and brilliance in your work.

The Royal Correos Casa, headquarters of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, hosted on Wednesday the ceremony for the eleventh edition of the Talent Awards that the Academy of Sciences and Television Arts of Spain gives those professionals who behind the camera shine for their talent and good work in the television medium.

The talent awards are proposed by academics and voted by the Board of Directors of the institution. To be able to opt for this award, the candidate must have performed his professional work behind the cameras with a brilliance and general recognition.

In his eleventh edition, the awards that reward the work behind the cameras have fallen to: Blanca Ricoy (head of Scenography and Ambiento of Mediaset España), Carlos Fernández (Director of Content of the Group Antena 3), Enrique Romay (Camera), Francisco Amescua (producer), Francisco Antonio de Tena (Chief of Postproduction and Graphics of Telemadrid), Francisco Romacho (Executive Producer of Mediapro) (Director director) Juan Alberto Valenzuela (producer), Juan Andrés García Ropero Bropi (Director of Globomedia Programs), Juancho García Barrecheguren (director Aragón Televisión), Mario López (director of Antena Canal Sur), Mario Moros (Journalist four), Paloma del Río TV3), Sergio Granero (director Alaska Producciones) and Tinet Rubira (director of Gestmusic Endemol).

On this occasion, the Academy also wanted to recognize the work of the professionals who voluntarily collaborated with the institution in the organization of the face between Mariano Rajoy and Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba on November 7.

Iñaki Gabilondo, first prize Joaquín Soler Serrano

In addition, the Academy of Sciences and Television Arts and the Spanish Academy of Radio have delivered the first prize Joaquín Soler Serrano of Radio and Television to Iñaki Gabilondo for its outstanding professional career both on radio and on television. The president of the Radio Academy, Jorge Álvarez, its honorary president, Luis del Olm and the president of the Academy of TV, Manuel Campo Vidal, accompanied by the widow of Joaquín Soler Serrano, Ana Pilar Ruiz, delivered this award that recognizes a professional who shone on both radio and television in the 50s and 80s.

The jury of this first edition has been composed of three members of the Directive of the Radio Academy, Jorge Álvarez, Luis del Olmo and José Mª Alfageme and three members of the Directive of the Manuel Campo Vidal Television Academy, Fernando Navarrete and Carles Marín and has been chaired by Ana Pilar Ruiz, widow of Soler Serrano.

He was born in San Sebastián in 1942 and a graduate in Journalism from the University of Navarra with only 26 years he was appointed director of the Cope of San Sebastián and the following year he went to being as director of the station in the same city. In 1971 he assumed the Radio Sevilla direction.

In 1978 he arrives in Madrid and took over the 25th hour direction and the coordination of the information services of the SER, whose direction goes on to occupy a year later.

In 1981 he left the SER and passes to RTVE as director of the Spanish Television Services. At that stage, the attempt with a 23-F coup d'etat lived, an exceptional situation from which his debut was derived as presenter of the night news.

After that stage, he participated in the Radio Televisión 16- that did not prosper- and returned to the SER.

With an experience of more than 40 years in the audiovisual sector, Gabilondo has become an indisputable reference of Spanish radio, especially since its incorporation, 19 years ago, to the program today of the SER chain.

Since his daily rostrum he has broken all audience records and has established himself as an absolute leader in his hourly band, turning today, for ten years, the most listened to the Spanish radio program. His independence, his rigor and his ability to communicate, have earned him the recognition of all public opinion and specifically of his more than 3,300,000 daily listeners.

His television experience is not limited only to the professional period developed in RTVE and Radio Televisión 16, since he has subsequently combined his work in the SER with numerous television programs in various chains: as a family (TVE), Iñaki, Thursday (Forta), first (TVE) and Telecinco informative people. In 2005 he joined the project of Cuatro, and later to CNN+, where he directed the nightly informative today.

He has been recognized with the most important journalism awards: Ortega y Gasset, Cerecedo, Press Association, UNESCO Gandhi Medal and Six Wave Awards, among others.