Most veterans will surely remember him as one of those people who, from the radio waves or those black and white TV screens of the 1960s, helped us live in a particularly dark time.
Last Saturday evening Mario Beut left us. I suppose this name won’t say anything to the youngest, but he was a big figure on radio and television. Most veterans will surely remember him as one of those people who, from the radio waves or those black and white TV screens of the 1960s, helped us live in a particularly dark time. I admit I swallowed the two TVE Newscasts whole (including the 20-minute sports in the afternoon) on Sunday to see how they handled the obituary. And what did they say?, you may wonder; So not a word.
Before TVE, Mario Beut didn’t exist, no matter how much he filled that house with glorious moments. I don’t know if it’s incompetence, ignorance or the sum of both. Because the professionals of the house come from an Audiovisual Communication study, and there the history of our radio and television has an essential gap. Coming from the radio where he went through almost all the stations in Barcelona (Radio Barcelona, Radio Miramar, Radio Peninsular, Radio Juventud…, to stop at COPE Barcelona to nothing), he was soon taken by the television and became a star of those mythical Miramar studios, where he presented “Yesterday news, today money” which he debuted in 1961. This program was followed by ‘Find a partner’, ‘Visit card’, ‘Unity is strength’, ‘Smile, please’, ‘Sabemos España’ or, already from Madrid, ‘El club afternoon’, on Sunday morning, along with the no less legendary Bobby Deglané and Marisol González. He was also an actor, in film and dubbing. Beut was preparing a memoir. It would be great if it saw the light, to the shame of so many useless and inept people on TVE today. Let’s see if they learn by reading.
Source: La Verdad
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