The Television Academy awards the Autonomous Iris Awards to the news of Telemadrid and Roberto González (TV Canaria)

Telemadrid's informative services have been recognized as the best autonomous program while Roberto González, driver of the Canarian television television television, achieves the Iris as the best presenter of autonomous programs.

The Council of the Television Academy and Audiovisual Sciences and Arts granted at its last plenary meeting held Thursday the Iris 2020 Awards to autonomic programs and presenters.

Los Informative services of Telemadrid have been recognized as the best autonomic program while Roberto González, driver of the Telenoticias 2 of Canarian television, Iris achieves as the best presenter of autonomic programs.

The Council of the Academy is the maximum decision -making body of the institution in which the Board of Directors participates and is formed by representatives of the generalist chains, autonomous channels, digital platforms and copyright management entities. The following representatives of the council members participated in the meeting yesterday: Mario López (LasExta / Atresmedia), María Escario (Director of Communication RTVE), Lucía Fernández del Viso (General Director of 13TV), Andreu Manresa (General Director IB3), Antonio Peñarrubia (General Director 7 Region of Murcia), Candelaria Delgado (Product Director and Communication Television Televisión Entertainment TV3), Edelmira Rodríguez (Content Director and Programming CMmedia), Fernando Rodríguez Ojea (TVG Content Director), Fidel Cardete (Director of Channel South Programs), Jaime Fontán (Director of Production Aragón Televisión), Lucía Herrera Cueva (director of Antena de Rtpa), Manuela Manzano (Telemadrid), Early Paco RTVCASTILYLEÓN), Enrique Lauceica (Secretary General of Forta), Antonio Onetti (President SGAE) and Manuel Campo Vidal. Representing the Board of Directors of the Academy participated: President María Casado, Vice Presidents Francisco Moreno, Beatriz Maesso and Pepe Quílez and, on behalf of the Awards Commission, Jota Abril.

Bet on live information

Telemadrid information services, led by Jon Ariztimuño, they have highlighted, during this last year, for their firm commitment to live information, innovation and for their enormous capacity to be on the stage of the main informative events and alter the programming provided that today has determined it.

In a year starring the Covid-19 pandemic, the Telenoticias de Telemadrid se han rediseñado por completo para reforzar su apuesta de servicio público esencial y ser un canal de información rigurosa durante la primera y la segunda ola del coronavirus. Además, para dar respuesta a las dudas de los espectadores, se creó durante los meses más duros del confinamiento el espacio Madrid frente al Coronavirus, donde los espectadores pudieron plantear sus dudas, ponerse en contacto con familiares a los que no podían ver en persona o contar sus historias personales. Cada programa contó, además, con expertos profesionales de la sanidad pública madrileña.

Telemadrid's informative services have covered during the last year the main current events with headquarters inside and outside the Community of Madrid: the storm of rain that in August 2019 flooded the southeast of the Community of Madrid, the investiture of President Pedro Sánchez, the United Nations Climate Summit, the exhumation of Franco of the Valley of the Fallen, or the altercations in Barcelona after the Supreme Court. of the independence process (October 2019), among other milestones. In that coverage, Telemadrid also became an informative reference during the first night of altercations for its rapid response capacity to modify its programming and prioritize live information, through its special envoys.

Roberto González

Bachelor of Law and Journalism from the University of La Laguna, half of the 50 years he has just fulfilled has made them looking at the camera. After starting on the radio, his first contact with television was in summer practices on Antena 3 Tenerife, but remained in Cope until he presented himself to the first Canarian television selection tests. From that moment on, from the same birth of the regional project, Roberto González's career would be linked to this regional television. He was the presenter of the first informative who issued the channel in December 1999. Since then he has been in charge of the main informative spaces of the house. He has aroused the canaries in the informative magazine good morning, he told them the last hour during lunch in the Telenoticias 1 And at present, he directs and presents the news of the night, the Telenoticias 2.

He has been in charge of numerous informative specials such as electoral nights, electoral debates, special programs, as well as other weekly informative current programs, such as 90 minutes or The focus.

During a brief period, he also exercised the Directorate of Television Services of Canarian television. After that stage, the presentation tasks were reinstated. His face and voice are known by the majority of the Canaries that identify him with the rigor, reliability and professionalism of Canarian television services. His image as a news presenter does not prevent him from showing a close and friendly personality. On two occasions, he has accompanied the Canaries in the bells of the end of the year.