Diego Carcedo, María Casado and José Carbajo run for the presidency of the Television Academy

The elections will be held at the Academy headquarters on Tuesday, December 4. Voting, by mail or in person, will serve to elect, through a closed list system, the 20 members of the Board of Directors of the Television Academy, including the president.

The Electoral Board that presides over the elections in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, chosen by lottery before a notary, and composed of: Marisa Castelo (president), Juan Francisco Martín (vice president), Francisco Javier López Gil, Santiago Alonso and Marto Egido, has proclaimed this Thursday the three candidates who elect to lead the institution in the next 4 years.

Jose Manuel Diego Carcedo, Maria Casado y Jose Carbajo They respectively preside over the lists that will compete in the elections.

Los elections will be held at the Academy headquarters on Tuesday December 4. Voting, by mail or in person, will serve to elect, through a closed list system, the 20 members of the Board of Directors of the Television Academy, including the president, plus 4 substitutes, as stated in the Internal Regime Regulations.

Electoral history of the Academy

At the end of 1996, a group of professionals with extensive experience in the world of television and led by journalist Jesús Hermida, considered that the time had come to create an association that would promote the prestige and social recognition of those who work in such an influential sector. That day the Academy of Television Sciences and Arts was born, thanks to the support of 164 founding partners who provided the economic foundations to create a non-profit institution, marked by seriousness, solvency and the collective desire to build an organization in which all professionals felt represented.

On October 30, 1997, the constituent General Assembly was held, in which the first Board of Directors was approved by acclamation, chaired by Jesús Hermida and integrated, among others, by Mikel Lejarza, Valerio Lazarov, Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, Victoria Prego, Claudio Biern, Concha Velasco, Isabel Gemio, Ignacio Salas, Olga Viza, Ricardo Visedo and Pedro Erquicia.

In 1998, coinciding with the appointment of Jesús Hermida as Deputy General Director of Antena 3 TV, the presidency fell to Antonio Mercero, producing a reorganization of the Board that brought in new members such as Ricardo Vaca, Josefina Molina or Eduardo Stern, in addition to Blanca Álvarez and Claudio Biern, who held the vice presidency of the Institution.

In March 2000, the first elections to the Board of Directors in the history of the Television Academy were held, to which five candidates were presented, with Ignacio Salas elected as the new president of the Academy. Salas governed the Institution until 2006.

In 2006, two years after the expiration of its second term, the Board of Directors chaired by Ignacio Salas, decided to bring forward the elections, and on September 28, Manuel Campo Vidal became the fourth president of the Academy, renewing his mandate in the following terms, on September 28, 2010 and on November 4, 2014 as head of the sixth and seventh Board of Directors of the Institution. In that period, the Television Academy acquired great recognition in Spanish society by recovering the televised electoral debates between candidates for the presidency of the government in 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016.