Queen Letizia wanted to attend the 50th anniversary homage to the Spanish television weekly report this Saturday evening, which broadcast a special program to mark the anniversary. “It is with great professional and intellectual humility that I address you on this day as public television pays tribute to the weekly report and to those who wrote its story. I can only thank all the professionals who have helped us understand the world for 50 years and join in the congratulations,” the Queen said in a message sent at the start of the programme, not wanting to ignore her visit when it was a “summer replacement over 20 years ago”. “I tiptoed and with the illusion of being able to see this newsroom up close, which has always been the dream of computer science students, we all wanted to be reporters for the Weekly Report,” he explained in a video captured by What Looks like one of the offices of his residence in Zarzuela, with a shelf full of books as the main background. Queen Letizia acted as a substitute presenter for the format in the summer of 2000.
Doña Letizia, 50 years old, like the program to which she pays tribute, has emphasized that this informative program “in difficult years” “contributed to the construction and consolidation of our democracy” and “forged democratic values and transmit them to the public Opinion”. “It is more than the informative reference book on the recent history of Spain. It is the calm look of a cautious approach. The information contrasted in depth with the context, the explanation of our time,” he assured. “His reports have contributed to it to forge democratic values and transmit them to public opinion. Since then, Informe Semanal has not missed its appointment in Spanish society,” added Felipe VI’s wife.
From the accounts she has checked, Letizia has stopped at the story of the girl Omaira Sánchez, whose 60-hour agony with water up to her neck went around the world and became a symbol of tragedy due to the avalanche caused by the eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz in Armero, a town in central Colombia. In this regard, she said that this story continues to “shock” her because this girl was the same age as her when she saw this account at her family’s home in Oviedo, a story that allowed her to “reveal the value of… Serious things to discover and rigorous journalism.” .
Weekly Report is the oldest program on public television and the oldest of its kind in Europe. It has remained on Televisión Española throughout the 14 legislatures of the Spanish government, and 16 directors and more than thirty presenters have gone through it, appearing to viewers almost always in the same time slot: Saturday evening. Today, he hasn’t broken his habit and celebrated his half-century at the foot of today with a special from Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum in La 1, hosted by journalist Ana Blanco.
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