José Luis Fradejas, in his time as presenter of 'Aplauso'.
The presenter of the program
Aplauso
and its sections
The youth dances
and
The double of the famous,
José Luis Fradejas, has died this Thursday morning victim of a myocardial infarction at the age of 72, as reported by RTVE.
“We will always remember him through his work”, lamented the television entity, the house where this Murcian presenter (Abarán, 1950) became known with
Aplauso,
a program that was broadcast from 1978 to 1983 and was directed by José Luis Uribarri, directed by Hugo Stuven and with a script by José Ramón Pardo.
Aplauso
de TVE was his great experience in front of the cameras, where he was first in charge of pieces such as
Youth dances
and, at the end of the program, as the main presenter.
Fradejas was the only one of the presenters who stayed on for the five years the program was broadcast and shared the set with Silvia Tortosa, Mercedes Rodríguez, María Casal or Adriana Ozores, among others.
After
Aplauso
he left La 1, although in 1997 he returned to TVE as deputy director of musical programs.
He was also the director and presenter of the
RNE programs
En
Marcha and
Apúntate 50 .
His family moved to Madrid when the journalist turned 10 years old.
His passion was born presenting children's theater performances, and although he began to study Advertising and Quantity Surveying, he decided to focus on presenting musical events in nightclubs.
That's how he met Uribarri, and he hired him for
Aplauso
.
In addition, he collaborated in different music magazines.
In May 1999, he joined Antena 3 to lead the Antena 3 Aragón delegation, where he was director of the Informativo Regional and the program
Aragón a fondo.
In recent years he was an audiovisual services executive at Telefónica.
Through
Applause
he won awards such as the Golden TP for Best National Program, the Ondas award and the Golden Ring award for Best Youth Program.
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