He Weekly report This Saturday, February 24, was the last time that Ana Blanco has been in front of the cameras as the presenter of a TVE news program. The 63-year-old journalist has decided to take early retirement and, although her retirement will take effect on March 29, her farewell in front of the cameras was this Saturday. Hers last Weekly report, space that it has presented since September 2023, has been a special program focused on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and its farewell has been reduced to a few brief words at the end of it: “For my part, this has been all, Thank you very much for your trust and your company during all this time. Goodbye and good night.”
Before, the farewells and displays of affection throughout the day were continuous from her colleagues, who received her in the newsroom with a long ovation, as shown in the videos they have shared on social networks. some of them and the official accounts of RTVE. Martín Barreiro, RTVE meteorologist, thanked him in X for his advice and highlighted his humility, understanding and intelligence. Tony Aguilar remembered the beginnings of Blanco in The 40s in Bilbao. From Informativos Telecinco, David Cantero, who was his partner in the Newscast from La 1, said goodbye to her by sending her a kiss at the end of his newscast. The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, also had a memory this Saturday for the journalist in a tweet in which he mentioned her as “part of our audiovisual memory,” highlighted her “three decades of journalism, reliability and public television” and thanked her for having treated current events with “closeness and rigor.”
The journalist has preferred to retire without fuss and rejecting proposals to grant interviews so she can have a few days in peace. The words that are most repeated in the many messages of gratitude and praise that her colleagues dedicate to her these days are terms such as temperance, rigor, closeness, calm and simplicity. Jesús Álvarez, one of her professional partners in the more than 30 years of working at RTVE, highlighted in conversation with EL PAÍS a few years ago Blanco's ability to improvise live. “She is very disciplined and aware that you have to know what you are going to tell. “She always knows how to get out of any situation elegantly,” she said.
Blanco stood before the cameras for the first time on September 15, 1990 to present the La 1 news program. A few days before, in a video that was recovered this Saturday on TVE, a young Ana Blanco was interviewed on another program on the network. public to publicize the new faces of the news. “It imposes a lot on me, I'm very nervous, but I guess everything will turn out well,” she confessed then.
She was the one who was in charge of the longest news program in history, the one on September 11, 2001, which reported on the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Lara Siscar told this newspaper about the capacity for control that Ana Blanco has, and that it made her the ideal person to assume leadership at times when current affairs were frenetic. “No matter how many hours she spends in the image, she has absolute control of everything. You gain that with experience, but you also have to have it in the game,” Siscar said about her partner.
Born in Portugalete (Bizkaia) and graduated in Pedagogy, Ana Blanco's first steps in the media were on the radio in Bilbao, but she quickly made the leap to the capital and, after a few years in Telemadrid, in 1990 she signed for TVE, where He became an everyday face for millions of viewers. Her solvency and credibility made her an essential name within the news programs, and in the more than 33 years of experience in the public channel she presented almost all editions of the news programs, in addition to special programs, spaces such as I have a question for you and numerous electoral appointments. In total, there have been more than 7,400 news programs that she has hosted on TVE.
In 2022 he decided to leave his place at the head of the after-dinner edition of La 1 News and thus stop presenting the news. In September 2023 he joined Weekly report, space that she had already hosted between 2007 and 2009 and in which she was last seen as a presenter.
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