Reaction to a quick farewell to Pedro Piqueras They leave no doubt that he is one of the highest rated presenters on television. On Monday Telecinco announced that at the end of the year the communicator will leave its infallible meeting with viewers PRIME time so Carlos Franganillo, hitherto a star journalist for RTVE, takes over.

Several years of rumors that Piqueras would sooner or later say goodbye to the network are culminating in news that gives a hint that updated information part of Mediaset, which will include the return of news to Cuatro. The change is due to an unflattering panorama for the communications group, which remains the third option chosen by viewers, after Antenna 3 and La 1.

Thus, Piqueras completes the stage 17 years as the flagship face of Mediaset. Among his recent reports, the one that stood out the most was the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja de la Palma volcano when he moved to the island as a correspondent for Telecinco.

“When I go four months without reporting, I’ll miss it.”

From Planet Calleja, a program he starred in in March of this year, he remembers as one of the most difficult experiences of his professional life. “It was amazing. There were days when I did several reports. I started recording in the morning, did three interviews for the afternoon news, four for the evening news… I was exhausted and couldn’t sleep”he said.

In this program, recorded when he was 67 years old, he also noted that retirement was never an option. “I have no intentions, and if one day this happens, I don’t care. When I go four months without reporting, I’ll definitely miss this. I like being an active journalist, reporting, I like presenting… … which is what I like most: “I like telling people what’s going on,” he said.

From this we can understand that the communicator’s farewell is not final and that we will most likely see him on radio talk shows, podcasts or journalism workshops, tasks that he already performs today. Actually, one of his most famous students was Queen Letizia.albeit punctually.

His class to Queen Letizia

“When she was just starting out, I once taught her in a journalism class. I remember she was the girl who She was always ready to go first and for anything.. […] From that moment on I had the best impressions of Laetitia. Now I don’t have it, she’s a queen, and I try not to talk about it,” she said during a visit to Russia. Goodism is good:

Returning to the assessment he gave of his career in Planet Callejacommented on this Felipe Gonzalez He was one of the “least intimate and most impressive” interlocutors he had ever had. He also talked about what he didn’t do, which was try some foreign correspondent waiting for his eternal dream and, surprisingly, his successor Carlos Franganillo has a lot of experience.

The best and worst news he gave

He also recalled that one of the pieces of news that affected him the most was “Assault on Irene Villa and her mother”while the best was the victory of the Socialists in 1982: “After the Franco era, the coup d’état, many threats… for the majority of Spaniards to choose the democratic political option, and in this case the left said a final farewell to the dictatorship, it was an exciting event,” noted He.

In the past, he missed quiet interviews, and he used the latest interview with Pedro Sanchez as an example to explain that today calm and extensive interviews are not carried out as they used to be, “not because of bipartisanship, which strengthens the press, as is believed,” but rather through tensions within the Congress of Deputies itself.

Despite the passion he stated he has for his work, he noticed that these were not all the benefits: his demanding schedule forced him I miss raising my son Currobut they also limited him to more trivial things, such as dinner with friends or going to the cinema on “spectator’s day”, which he will probably now find easier to do.

Besides his profession, Pedro Piqueras also spoke about his childhood and his greatest passion. “I’m from the capital Albacete, but I was born in a suburb-like area, with only orchards behind my house. We had chickens and a pig to survive.”, he stated about his origin.

From Albacete he went to Madrid, where he studied computer science at the Complutense University. Throughout his career, he was not only the director of Informativos Telecinco, but also worked for La 1 and Antena 3. In radio, he worked for National Radio of Spain.

In fact, he started his career in 1977 as editor of Radio Exterior Spain and international space. In the same environment he led At the end of the street And We are open on Saturdays. Over the years he was director of Informativos del Fin de Semana, director of 24 Horas and director Informative 2.

RNE, La 1, Antena 3 and Telechinko, but always in the information

Already in 1988 he joined TVE News as news director its first and second issues, as well as the Good Morning space. In 1993, he moved to the private sector and continued his career with the young Antena 3 as director and presenter of Antena 3 Noticias 2. accompanied by Maria Rey.

However, in 1996 they began to implement Public mirrorprogram that is currently impossible to understand without Suzanne Griso. This was not the case for many years: in 1998 he returned to the news, heading the issues of Fin de Semana together with Miriam Romero. Sandra Barneda and finally one.

Then came less durable formats such as In full light or Answer, which only remained on the air for a few months. He returned to the public in 2004 to lead RNE until his resignationalready in 2006, when he also stopped representing Focus.

Since his last performance since that year, already at Telecinco, when replaced Juan Pedro Valentinit should be noted that for several years it prevailed in hearings over the proposals of Antena 2 and La 1. Of the broadcasts it is worth highlighting, because at present it is difficult to imagine that it was June 13, 2016, when Piqueras He participated, with Ana Blanco and Vicente Vallesin the second Antena 3 debate between Mariano Raja, Albert Rivera, Pedro Sánchez and Pablo Iglesias.

In addition to public recognition, he also earned winks Save me By giving way or lively laughter, contrasting with the usual solemnity of his connections, the communicator receives the Ondas Award, the Antena de Oro Award or the Eisenhower Award. In 2021 he received the gold medal of Castile-La Mancha, and in 2022 another for his career, awarded Jose Luis Martinez Almeida.

In addition to his profession, the man from La Mancha is a big fan of bullfighting and, above all, music. In the past, the presenter was a singer and collaborated with the folk group Nuevo Mester de Juglaría, although He was also a member of Carcoma..

And the matter did not remain in the past, as it happens with Ion Aramendi or Great Wyoming. She recently shared a video on her social media of herself playing the piano with her dog Violeta as a VIP spectator. On a personal level, which he keeps secret, he has a relationship with veterinarian Esther Barriga.

His son Curro, whom he sometimes said was “a very creative person”, studied advertising at the Nebrija University of Madrid and worked for advertising agencies such as JWT Madrid, Bob Comunicación and McCann Worldgroup.