2023-09-17 20:06:42
The radio world is in mourning and will no longer hear the “Hello, hello!” with which Pepe Domingo Castaño greeted the listeners in the program ‘Tiempo de Juego’. The master of sports radio died early Sunday morning in Madrid at the age of 80. “The day we never wanted to come has arrived,” they announced from his program. José Domingo Castaño Solar (Padrón, October 8, 1942), radio and television presenter, singer and writer, died at the Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid due to septicemia.
On Wednesday, the announcer went to the medical center for hoarseness that he had been treating for a few days and which not only had not improved, but had led to a throat infection. Already in the hospital, an intestinal infection was detected that caused a generalized infection that ended his life, according to Cope. Castaño was accompanied by his sons, Hugo and Óscar, his wife, Teresa, and also the journalist Paco González, his inseparable companion on the radio.
«The radio will never sound the same without you. This family will never beat the same again without you but, for you, we will continue… We still don’t know how we are going to do it, but we will continue to fill the void you leave us with life and radio. We love you Pepe, we love you and we will always love you as you have taught us, with joy and united,” his program colleagues lamented in an exciting message on social networks. Some messages that were repeated on all the national networks, which remembered the Galician announcer in their Sunday sports programs. An essential figure in that way of doing radio.
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Pepe Domingo Castaño always stated that he would continue at the microphone until his voice held up. This is what the Legend did, a nickname by which his colleagues called him and which he rejected in public even though he liked him. He began his professional career at just 18 years old on Radio Galicia, but in 1966 he decided to leave his homeland to move to the capital, where he developed his first musical program on La Voz de Madrid. His first program was ‘Musical Club’.
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The Galician presenter also opted for television. On TVE he presented ‘Junior Library’ in 1968 and met fellow presenter María Luisa Seco, with whom he was married from 1969 to 1981. Later, he was in charge of the program ‘300 million’ from 1979 to 1983, when he left the small screen until who returned punctually in 1995 with the program ‘Número 1’ (Telecinco).
But the radio was always present. He never abandoned it and always combined it with other work experiences. Cadena Ser hired him in 1973 as host of youth and musical programs, such as ‘Voces a 45’, ‘Viva la radio’ and ‘Sintonía sobre Ruedas’. However, his most recognized work to date was as the host of ‘The Great Musical’, which earned him his first Ondas Award in 1975.
His career in sports radio began in 1988, when he arrived at ‘Carrusel Deportivo’, which he co-presented first with Antonio Martín Valbuena and for 18 years with Paco González. There he already demonstrated to be an innovator in the way of singing the program’s advertising spots with songs, wit and that art of appearing improvised that he was working on. “Advertising is also radio,” he used to say. He turned it into a hallmark.
In 2010 he left ‘Carrusel Deportivo’ because he did not agree with the dismissal of Paco González, whom he accompanied when he was hired by Cadena Cope that same year, where since then he co-presented ‘Tiempo de Juego’.
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Castaño was so versatile that he also managed to succeed in music – one of his passions. He began his musical career as part of the bands Los Ibéricos or Blue Sky, although he did not obtain recognition until he released ‘Neñina’ as a soloist (1975), a song that earned him the number 1 spot on Los 40 Principales on February 15, 1975. Later, in 1979, he won a Gold Record in Mexico for his song ‘Motivos’.
Pepe Domingo Castaño was awarded, among other awards, four Ondas (1975, 1996, 2002 and 2005), two Golden Antennas (1989 and 2010), a Golden Microphone in 2005 and the National Sports Award (2012). In his role as a writer, he published the book ‘Carrusel Deportivo: Diario de un Año’, the collection of poems ‘Debajo de la Parra’ and ‘Hasta que se me cúbén los Palabras’, published last year, in which he reviewed the entire his professional career. The “Hello, hello!”, the “Pepe, a cigar!”, the “Coronita, uh, fresh, uh”, “The checkbook, the checkbook, Bancotel checkbook…” – to the rhythm of ‘La cucaracha ‘- or his particular way of singing ‘Nessum Dorma’ to announce a chainsaw are radio history.
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