2022 will be remembered, among other things, as the year in which three great voices of Argentine radio and television died: Cacho Fontana, Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú and Pinky, who passed away this Thursday, December 8, at the age of 87. The three were united by a passion for their work, respect from colleagues and reaching a very large audience. which consecrated them as popular references.
Cacho and Pinky have also been reunited more than once working in television and they became great friends. So much so that, in recent years, they shared spaces and chats in the same residence for the elderly.
On July 5 Cacho Fontana dies. The announcer and presenter has passed away at the age of 90. His particular style marked an entire era of Argentine radio and television, spanning five decades.. before cycle Question Odoloreached its peak of popularity and the show became a local television legend.
Fontana’s unmistakable voice was synonymous with dozens of commercialsfor several generations. His confident and energetic way of communicating came to be his trademark as a pipe Question Odolo:”Coooon safetydddd!”.
Norberto Palese (his real name) became famous as Jorge “Cacho” Fontana and was also responsible for other television shows such as The crystal bell Y Video show.
His beginnings were on the radio (in Del Pueblo and El Mundo) and, after accompanying the sports broadcasts of José María Muñoz, He continued to conduct several cycles on Radio Rivadavia, including one of his greatest successes Fountain show.
Fontana, who had three daughters, died two days after his ex-wife and mother of his twins, the former model Liliana Caldini. In 2020 he was hospitalized due to Covid and a year later he had to be hospitalized again for pneumonia.
One goodbye after another
Upon learning of Fontana’s death, one of the figures who expressed her grief over the loss was Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, who remembered the announcer fondly: “We had a great relationship. Working with him was a wonderful adventure”declared the journalist, who died two months later, on September 7, at the age of 91.
With Magdalena’s death, journalism was in mourning, losing one of its great figures. With an immense and flawless career, Ruiz Guiñazú has led radio and television hits, left a legacy for the profession and has received fifteen Martín Fierro awards for his journalistic work and the Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Until the last moment, the reporter sat in front of the microphone, on Radio Miter, to conduct Magdalene and the desired news, and had previously been a part of it Wool Without Filter upon his return to radio in 2014.
your cycle cupcakes very soon It was one of his great radio milestones, was aired between 1987 and 2006 on Radio Mitre. “There must be generations who hate me because they listened to my little music and had to get up to go to school,” she declared when she received a Martín Fierro in 2017.
Curiously, at that time Cacho Fontana stood out among the accolades. “I thank Cacho Fontana, who was the first to bring cell phones to the streets”she said at the ceremony.
The journalist was also a member of CONADEP (National Commission for the Disappearance of Persons), the investigation into human rights violations during the last dictatorship whose evidence was included in the report Never again.
With more than fifty years in the profession, five children and eight grandchildren, Magdalena’s premise has always been “Tell the truth above all things. Never lie.”
And Pinky died in the last month of the year
Three months after saying goodbye to Magdalena and five months after the death of her friend Cacho, Pinky died at the age of 87.
Journalist, actress, model, TV presenter and also a politicianLidia Elsa Satragno (her real name) also dabbled in politics as candidate for mayor of the La Matanza party in 1999 for Alianza, and in 2007 she was elected national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires of the PRO Union.
With an impeccable and unmistakable presence, due to his career he was the one in charge of welcoming color television in Argentina, in 1980in a historical event for the medium, with the transfer of black and white television to the new technology, broadcast live and inaugurating the public signal with the name of Argentina Televisora Color (ATC).
Nicknamed Pinky In her days as a model, she made her television debut in 1956, then had a brief stint in the cinema as an actress and also starred in dozens of commercials. Since 1958 she has conducted her own program Good morning Pinky.
This was followed by dozens of television cycles such as The people want to know, Pinky at night, Very feminine, With a Pinky flavour, Pinky and the news, To the English with humor, Pinky and Fontana himself, Argentina in the 2000s, The 60s, The 70s , The 80s, Pinky and art, it seems like yesterday Y The conversationamong many others.
For all life He has faced several serious health problems, such as thrombosis, COPD and cancer, from which he has been able to recover until this Thursday. In recent years he has come to share the same rehabilitation clinic as his friend Cacho Fontana and also They gave interviews together recounting anecdotes and memories of their work together such as the controversial 24-hour broadcast, in 1982, during the Falklands Warwhere donations were received.
Mother of two children (the eldest, Leonardo, died in 2019)Following her relationship with singer Raúl Lavié, Pinky married twice and was accompanied by her son Gastón, in her last days.
Source: Clarin
