That Spain in black and white experienced a small television revolution in 1973 that delighted the most soccer fans. It was the times of the sports carousel on Sunday afternoon. The matches coincided in the same evening section and the excitement on the radio was soaring. The country, paralyzed and pending a transistor. Football aroused passions at a time when entertainment was also limited by the Franco regime and the technological backwardness of the time. And suddenly, television appeared to change habits.
He started a program entitled ‘Estadio Study’ to bring the sounds and merriment of football to the image of the small screen. It was a transcendental innovation in the history of TVE, the only channel at that time, which forever changed journalism and the way of enjoying sports on television.
The first presenter and creator of this veteran container was Pedro Ruiz, only 25 years old, to whom, as he explained, the name ‘Estudio estádio’ is due. It might seem like just another program -in fact, on the public channel there were previously other similar ones dedicated to football, entitled ‘Yesterday Sunday’ and ‘Teledeporte’-, but the innovative part of this bet was to incorporate the summaries and the best plays of the games on Sundays in a format that was going to be broadcast that same day at night.
The perspicacity and risk of those responsible, in addition to the technological advances of the time, made this space one of the most modern of that monocolor television.
Old days
Each installment of that first stage was lived to the limit in the TVE studios in Prado del Rey. Compared to its predecessors, which were broadcast on Mondays or Tuesdays to give time to reveal the images recorded on film with which the matches were filmed, ‘Estudio estádio’ only had a few hours to offer on Sunday night the best moments of the football day.
Time was money and, if the images did not reach the regional centers to connect them with Madrid, a small plane was even used from which the tapes were launched and a writer collected them.
Sometimes the images were sent to the regional centers by small plane, from which the tapes were launched.
The other great innovation of the dean of sports on Spanish television was the incorporation of the moviola, a machine designed specifically for editing cinematographic films, but which in this program allowed the most controversial plays of the day to be shown in slow motion repetitions that They were commented on by the presenters and experts on the set.
After Pedro Ruiz, who left the program a year and a little after the start of its broadcasts, Miguel Vila took over the space and, later, in April 1974, Julio César Fernández presented the format, who signed the referee José María Ortíz from Mendibil as a commentator and added the cartoonists Máximo and Forges to the staff to draw the cartoons.
Special program
Coinciding with such an important event, RTVE has prepared for tonight (10:00 pm) on Teledeporte the special ‘Estudio estadio. 50 years’, co-directed by Arturo Ortega and Roberto García, and presented by Paco Caro and Rubén Briones, which will remember, over the course of two hours, all the professionals who have worked to make the pioneering space of television what it is today is. The public channel chooses this specific date because it was March 25, 1973 when the first broadcast report was recorded.
In total, ‘Estudio Estadio’ has broadcast more than 4,000 broadcast programs in its different stages, in which the original name brand disappeared but TVE maintained its essence. Throughout its fifty years, it received a total of 22 presenters. Some of them will meet on the Torrespaña set to recall anecdotes from their different stages.
A tribute will be made to Mari Carmen Izquierdo, the first woman dedicated to football information on TVE
In this special installment, TVE will remember those communicators who were part of the format: Mari Carmen Izquierdo, Juan Manuel Gozalo, Juan Antonio Fernández Abajo, Jose Mari Casanovas, Matías Prats, Jesús Álvarez, José Ángel de la Casa, Juan Carlos Rivero, Iñaki Cano, Lourdes García Campos, Marcos López or Marta Solano.
It will also recover programs that, although under a different name, were still ‘Estudio Estadio’ such as ‘Sólo goles’, ‘Domingol’, ‘El rondo de Estudio Estadio’, or ‘Club de fútbol’, which Josep Pedrerol presented on La 2.
In addition, the public channel will pay a particular tribute to the journalist Mari Carmen Izquierdo, who died in 2019. She was the first woman dedicated to football information on TVE as a reporter, presenter and editor-in-chief of the program. She will open this installment with a testimony that she left when a 30-year-old special was recorded in 2003.
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