The Jesús Hermida Communication Center opens its doors in Huelva

This project pays tribute to the journalist, closely linked throughout his professional career to RTVE, which has provided audiovisual documents and equipment for exhibition in the museum.

Last weekend the Jesús Hermida Communication Center. The project arises from the collaboration agreement signed last year by RTVE, the Huelva City Council and the Press Association of the city and pays tribute to the journalist, closely linked to the Corporation for many years in his long professional life. In addition to participating in the implementation of the project, RTVE has provided audiovisual documents and equipment for exhibition in the museum.

The Jesús Hermida Communication Center is located in a municipally owned building known as 'Huelva Visitor Center, Puerta del Atlántico'. The project has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the professional career of Jesús Hermida and will maintain temporary exhibitions and educational and informative activities.

RTVE has contributed to the center's funds with equipment which have been historically used by Radio Nacional de España. It has also temporarily transferred the rights to radio and television productions in which Hermida participated for broadcast in the center. Among this material are interviews that are the history of journalism in Spain, such as the one he conducted with the American journalist Walter Conkrite or with the actress Bette Davis during the years in which she was a correspondent for TVE in New York.

Extensive professional career

Jesus Hermida joined TVE in 1967 and a year later he took charge of the New York correspondent. He remained there for eleven years and left indelible broadcasts in the memory of the Spanish, such as the arrival of man to the Moon.

In 1978 he returned to Spain to be director, presenter and interviewer of spaces such as Close Up, Chronicle 3 o On Turn. After a stint on the radio, far from public television, he returned to TVE in 1987, to create a new school with In the morning, the first morning magazine show that was made on Spanish television. In 1990 he presented, always with his peculiar style, the second edition of the Telediario.

After his time as director of Antena 3 Televisión and Castilla-La Mancha TV in the first years of the new century, in 2006, he returned to TVE to present The image of your life and later The TV of your life.

He was founder and first president of the Spanish Academy of Television Sciences and Arts, which awarded him the Lifetime Award for his professional career. He was awarded three Ondas awards, three gold Antenas, two gold TPs and the National Television Award. In January 2013 he did his last work for TVE with an interview with Don Juan Carlos, in 'La noche del rey', on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the then Head of State.