The programs ‘El Faro’ (Cadena Ser), by Mara Torres, and ‘El búnquer’ (Catalunya Ràdio) in the radio category, the presenters Carlos del Amor and Silvia Intxaurrondo (both from TVE) and the program ‘Late Xou’ (TVE Catalunya), with Marc Giró, in the television category, the actors Juan Diego Botto, Patrick Criado and Úrsula Corberó, the series ‘Poquita fé’ and ‘La Ruta’, and Coque Malla in music, are some of the highlights winners of the 70th edition of the Ondas 2023 awards, whose jury’s decision was announced this afternoon by Cadena Ser.
The jury stated that the award for ‘El Faro’ is “for having transformed the radio at dawn into a space of knowledge and reflection, in which listeners participate in an enriching collective experience.” And the award for ‘El búnquer’ for “taking radio out of its usual spaces with a transgressive format that addresses, from satire, the lives of notable people.”
Regarding the television category, the Kings League valued “Ibai Llanos’s ability to conquer and attract new audiences, through naturalness and interaction, it shows us how the television has adapted and has made its creativity its own.” multi-screen world.” The award for best current affairs program went to ‘Informe Semanal: 50 Años’ (TVE) in recognition “of all the teams that over 50 years have kept a benchmark of reportage journalism on the air.”
As for ‘Late a time, which highlights the cordial nature of the interviews.”
Exaequo award for best male performance. Juan Diego Botto (‘I don’t like to drive’, TNT) has been assessed as “composing from comedy a well-rounded character, full of nuances, very well constructed, which gives the series the depth and tone it needs. And from Patrick Criado (‘Tefia’s Nights’, Atresmedia), who manages to move with a “complex character who is capable of finding happiness and spreading it within the suffering that the repression of homosexuals entailed during the Franco regime.”
Regarding Úrsula Corberó (‘The Body on Fire’, Netflix) it has been highlighted that she manages to “move away from the actual event on which the series is based and compose a complex character that seeks to go beyond the motives that lead someone to commit a crime.”
In music, the lifetime achievement award went to Coque Malla, who “with more than 35 years on stage, has become a reference in pop rock in our country, first with Los Ronaldos and, later alone, winning the respect of the entire scene.” And Jorge Drexler has been awarded for his live performance ‘Tinta y tiempo’, which is seen as having managed to “introduce us into a very special creative universe.”
In this edition, the Ondas awards have surpassed the participation record and have reached the highest number of participants of its 70 editions with 587 applications from 17 countries around the world. Those works carried out and broadcast in Spain, in one of its official languages, during the period between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023, have been eligible for the awards. The awards ceremony will take place on the 22nd. November at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
