Pedro Erquicia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish journalist
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Place of Birth: Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain
About Pedro Erquicia
- Pedro Erquicia López de Montenegro (24 March 1943 – 20 April 2018) was a Spanish journalist and news anchor. He entered in 1965 to Televisión Española where he developed most of his television career.
- The first television program that he presented was Panorama de Actualidad from 1968 until 1970 and TVE's newscast Telediario (1972-1973). In 1973 Erquicia created one of the longest running programs in Spanish television: Informe Semanal, which resumes the news and affairs of the last seven days (Based upon CBS's 60 Minutes).
- He directed it until 1978 and anchored it from 1976 until 1968.
- It was at that time when he had to cover the attempted coup d'état perpetrated on 23 February 1981 and record the message to the Nation of King Juan Carlos I. In 1987 he was fired by TVE and later he joined the then recently created public broadcaster Telemadrid. In 1990 Erquicia returned to TVE when he was hired to direct and anchor Documentos TV and from 1996 until 2007 he was in charge of the Direction of Programs of Current Affairs and Investigation. In April 2008 Erquicia reached retirement.
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