10/14/2020 4:06 PM
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Updated 10/14/2020 4:11 PM
At the age of 81, the renowned journalist and radio and television host
Raúl Portal died
.
He was the host and mastermind of great proposals and television successes such as
Perdona Nuestro Pecados
(better known as PNP),
Noti-Dormi
and
El Portal de las Pets
.
It began to gain importance on TV in the program
Semanario Insólito
(1982 and 1983, by Argentina Televisora Color -ATC-), a program that combined humor with news, a format that exploded on Argentine television in the eighties.
There he shared the scene with
Adolfo Castelo, Virginia Hanglin and Raúl Becerra
.
He was the creator of
Noti-Dormi
, also at ATC.
Later, in
Robocopia
together with Becerra he pioneered the format that he later popularized in Perdona Nuestro Pecados, better known as PNP (1994-2002), whose production was in charge of his son
Gastón Portal
.
In that program he was accompanied by the debutant
Federica Pais
and later by
Mariana Fabbiani
.
This program debuted on ATC and then went through the screens of Telefé and Channel 13.
He was an animal care activist and was linked to the protection and responsible ownership of pets with his program
El Portal de las Pets
that aired on Telefé between 2001 and 2002, went to Channel 9 and then to América 2 (2006).
For this program he obtained the Martín Fierro in the category "
Best service program
" in 2001.
Closer in time, he was the protagonist of a controversy as he was a staunch defender of the Catholic priest Julio César Grassi, founder of the play "
Happy Children
", with
several complaints of abuse of minors against him
.
At that time Portal undertook a personal crusade in the media to defend the accused, whom he considered innocent despite the fact that the Argentine justice found him guilty and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, a ruling confirmed on three occasions by three different chambers.
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