Pepa Bueno will present El Telediario de nuestras vidas, a 45-minute special that brings familiar Telediario faces back to Torrespaña for RTVE’s 70th anniversary. It airs on Monday 19 October at 20:55 peninsular time. Spain’s first regular television broadcasts began on 28 October 1956.
The programme brings together familiar faces from Spanish television history. Iñaki Gabilondo and Pedro Piqueras are among the guests, as are Olga Viza and Manuel Campo Vidal. TVE presenters Ana Blanco and María Escario are taking part. Lorenzo Milá will join them.
Several guests built their careers at TVE before moving to private broadcasters. Carlos Franganillo, now associated with Mediaset’s news service, is due back at Torrespaña. Matías Prats, associated with Antena 3, is also returning. The programme will revisit major stories covered by TVE’s news service since broadcasting began, along with memories and milestones from Telediario’s history.
RTVE has framed the anniversary as a tribute to television pioneers. It also recognizes the journalists and technical staff who helped shape public broadcasting over seven decades. The tribute extends to the viewers who followed it.
Carlos del Amor devised the programme and will direct it. Antonio Casado is directing the production, while Bueno will present from the desk.
The special airs on La 1 and Canal 24 horas. Viewers can also watch it on RTVE Play and RTVE Noticias’ YouTube channel. It will be available on RTVE.es as well. After the broadcast, it will remain on RTVE Play.
The anniversary coverage has already included a special edition of Telediario 1. Alejandra Herranz and the programme’s team presented 70 años juntos from Robledillo de la Jara, a Madrid municipality with about 80 residents. The village’s basic square is named Plaza de Televisión Española. Robledillo received its first television set through the programme Destino TV in the late 1950s.
That broadcast paired archive footage with live performances. The Orquesta y Coro de RTVE played familiar music from the broadcaster’s history. Characters from Barrio Sésamo appeared, including Don Pimpón. Ruperta from Un, dos, tres... shared the programme with puppets from La bola de cristal. Journalist Borja Terán discussed television’s social and cultural impact in its early decades. The broadcast was part of RTVE’s anniversary coverage ahead of El Telediario de nuestras vidas.
In the village square, musician Pablo López performed «Casi siempre» at the piano, then played the familiar La bola de cristal theme on keyboards. RTVE Noticias has also opened a poll on RTVE Participa, asking readers to choose up to three of the most impressive news stories of the past 70 years.
Sports journalist María Escario is among the figures from specialist news coverage named for the programme. Weather presenters Paco Montesdeoca and Mónica López are also listed in its promotional material. López heads RTVE’s El Tiempo unit.
