SPAIN / A communication centre in the town of Huelva to honour Jesùs Hermida

The Spanish public radio and television group, RTVE, together with the Huelva town hall and the local press association have signed an agreement to create a communications centre to honour one of the town’s most famous sons, Jesùs Hermida.

The journalist, who died in 2015, was well known in Spain as RTVE’s New York correspondent from 1967 to 1978. Returning to Spain, he presented high-profile programmes until 2013, interviewing many well-known people. He was also the founder and first chair of the Academy of Science and Arts of Spanish Television.

The Centro de la Comunicación Jesùs Hermida in Huelva, capital of the region where the journalist was born, will be inaugurated this year. For Antonio Sanchez, RTVE’s chairman, Jesùs Hermida was “a reference in Spanish radio and television, his career inseparable from RTVE’s.” The town’s mayor, Gabriel Cruz, is delighted with the creation of this centre which will be a space for study, meetings and leisure.

RTVE will make a financial contribution to set up the centre and will also temporarily give up the rights of programmes featuring Hermida.

Sources: Panorama Audiovisual, Noticias de Navarra