On the day of “Cacho” Fontana’s death, the historical radio moments that had him as a protagonist sprout. One occurred less than three years ago: six decades after its radio debut, the announcer returned to the dial at the age of 87 with a cycle of his own. He was summoned by the authorities of Radio Nacional (AM 870). A piece of the national team, where he received figures such as Guillermo Francella, Graciela Borges and Juan José Campanella.

The first Saturday of each month, from 9pm to 10pm. Norberto Palese’s voice (the announcer’s real name) filled the airhalf a century later fountain show. Juan José Campanella, Graciela Borges, Guillermo Francella, María Laura Santillán, Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, Héctor Larrea, Palito Ortega and Jorge Lanata.

Fountain he managed to deepen the less traveled sides of the characters. With Francella, for example, he talked about issues such as fatherhood and his transition to the phase of the ’empty nest’. “Being a father was for me the exaltation of happiness. A feeling that I did not know. Very moving. I always stress that I am their source of advice, but they are too. We are very attached to my children. It was a very moving phase. happy that accompanies their life processes. From afar, the fact that they went to live alone, I recognize that it is something that struck me, even if I have them very close “, Francella released.

On 6 July of that year (on the 82nd anniversary of the station) it was the turn of listening to Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú, the owner of nearly 20 Martín Fierro. The bond between the journalist and the driver began when she, cartoonist for the magazine Maribel, has become a cellphone fountain show. In fact, one of Guiñazú’s historical notes occurred in that phase, during the first trip of Pope John Paul II to Poland, a work for which he obtained the Order of Merit in London. “Cacho told me: ‘Go to Rome with a cameraman, make friends with people. Three planes are about to leave and the Pope is going in one.’ And I traveled. It turns out that I was waiting for the Wednesday audience and I saw the papal car stopped, with the Pope in it. “I’m from Argentina.” He smiled at me and I was able to interview him. In life you have to cheer up your spirits “, he confides.

The format of the cycle consisted of two interviews of half an hour each. Fontana’s radio team is made up of his family. Antonella Fontana (daughter of Cacho) was the producer of the cycle. The driver’s deceased ex-wife, Liliana Caldini, also participated. The return to the activity to which she was linked contributed to the recovery, but also contributed to the economy of the announcer, who confessed that if it had not been for the help received it would have been “difficult to make ends meet”.

“People will think that I don’t know what I did with the money … When I got the money I bought a house for my daughters, for their future. Today I have a minimum pension,” Fontana said at the time.

More than 60 years after the premiere of Odol asks“Cacho” managed to interview figures such as Moria Casán, singer Adriana Varela, Santiago del Moro and Jorge Lanata, among others.

“Your life is like a movie, but it’s not a movie. Many things have happened to you … And to see you today in the radio studio, in front of the microphone, is to understand that you are a living part of a medium who was considered dead not long ago and has re-emerged thanks to new technologies, “he said del Moroexcited before Cacho, on that program they shared in August 2019.