Spanish communicator and journalist Jesus Quinteroa creative and personal radio and television host, creator of cycles such as “The Green Dog” Y “The fool on the Hill” With whom at the end of the 1990s he brought his stamp to the Río de la Plata, he died this Monday at the age of 82.
Quintero He died in the geriatric residence Nuestra Señora de los Remedios de Ubrique, in Cádiz, where he was housed with respiratory and coronary problems.reported the Spanish press.
“Television is an abandoned and looted mine that is in the hands of unscrupulous people” Jesus Quintero
The legendary presenter and creator of multiple radio and television formats, received more than 200 awardsamong which the Ondas Internacional, the King of Spain award for journalism, the name given to a classroom in the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the University of Malaga and the Award for journalistic originality stand out.
The driver was born on August 19, 1940, in the province of Huelva, the son of José, the electrician, and María, the peasant, who told the child Jesus that “It was weirder than a green dog and a red mouse”two ratings he later used for his shows.
His interview with Maradona
At the age of 20, Quintero got a job at the National Radio of Spain animating the afternoons with the program “Estudio 15-18” but as the proposal did not convince him, he proposed to make “El hombre de la roulotte” a program touring Spain in a van full of books and frying pans, interviewing “nobodies” and that event pushed him to the commercial channel Ser, where there were no advertisements in its early-morning space.
In the absence of commercial batches, “El Loco de la Colina” listened and made heard the problems of the desperate, the lonely, those in need of advice and those thirsty for affection and that commitment could be heard on this side of the world through Radio Nacional.
Interview with Charly García in “El Perro Verde”
So it was that without stopping doing radio and television in a way that was as unique as it was uncomfortable and provocative, in the ’90s he came to the Río de la Plata to work in Argentina and Uruguay.
Here He managed to interview the murderer Robledo Puch but he never stopped proposing dialogue with common people and he even suffered a violent robbery at his production company but instead of denouncing the criminals he chose to try to interview them.
Hand in hand with Joaquín Sabina
In 1991 he presented on Canal Sur the program “Thirteen nights” made up of 13 hour-long interviews with the writer Antonio Gala, each dealing with a specific topic, from which one of his three books emerged (the others were “Cuerda de Presos” and “Jesús Quintero: interview”).
Also He worked as a producer for the singer Soledad Bravo and the guitarist Paco de Lucía. and tried to develop as a manager and cultural promoter but in that area he enjoyed little success.
Jose Quinteros with Hebe de Bonafini
Until his last days he remained very critical of television, the medium in which he obtained his greatest triumphs. “Television is an abandoned and looted mine that is in the hands of unscrupulous people. Morbidity, frivolity, sex and cheap and easy-to-tear sentimentality have become the only claim to attract the audience that is praised, feeding their baser instincts. But bad is bad, even if eight million viewers watch it.”he applied without hesitation.
