Antonio Buitrago, director of Radio Exterior de España, National Radio Award 2020

Buitrago cuenta con una dilatada trayectoria profesional vinculada a Radio Nacional de España, donde ingresó como redactor en 1983.

The Academia Española de la Radio ha concedido el Premio Nacional de Radio 2020 al periodista Antonio Buitrago, director of Foreign Radio of Spain y conductor del espacio Ondas de ayer en Radio 5.

Buitrago, licenciado en Periodismo e Imagen y Sonido por la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, tiene de una dilatada trayectoria profesional vinculada a Radio Nacional de España, donde ingresó como redactor en 1983.

He has developed most of his work at Radio Exterior de España, the RNE station that broadcasts on shortwave to the five continents. During that time he has directed and presented programs such as Friends of the shortwave, Hispanorama, A language without borders and, in addition, he has been responsible for the international program exchange service.

The Spanish Radio Academy especially values ​​his decision to award the National Radio Award for his work on the program Ondas de ayer, which represents a great informative work on the radio medium, an unusual content in the programming of Spanish stations.

The Academy links the granting of this award to the celebration of Radio Day in Spain, which is commemorated on June 14: it is the date on which, during the reign of Alfonso XIII, the Royal Order of June 14, 1924 was published, which gave the green light to the official birth of radio broadcasting in Spain. This would allow the establishment of the first radio stations in our country, 96 years ago.

However, the Academy already warns that it is likely that the award ceremony and celebration will be postponed until after the summer.