Luis Ángel de la Viuda dies at 93 years of age

The journalist Luis Ángel de la Viuda, who was director of TVE in the time of Adolfo Suárez and co-founder of Antena 3, died this Monday, October 13, at the age of 93.

Born in Burgos in 1932, and after graduating in Journalism from the Complutense University and in Law from the Universities of Valladolid and Madrid, De la Viuda began his career writing in La Voz de Castilla, later becoming part of the magazine SP and the newspaper Arriba.

Later he was news director and head of programs at Radio Nacional de España (RNE). Adolfo Suárez, then general director of RTVE, assigned him the direction of TV Programs. Spanish Television in the early seventies. Later, already in full transition, he was director of the Pueblo newspaper, replacing Emilio Romero.

In 1982 he founded the music chain Radio 80 (which would later become M80 and currently Los 40 Classic) and at the beginning of the 90s he was part of the founding team of Antenna 3 by Manuel Martín Ferrand. With the entry of Antonio Asensio (Zeta), Rupert Murdoch and Banesto in the capital of Antena 3 TV, De la Viuda resigned as deputy director of the network. Since then he began numerous collaborations in media such as ABC, El Mundo, Onda Cero or COPE, combining teaching at the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid.