Pepe Domingo Castaño, a renowned voice on Spanish music and sports radio, died early Sunday morning at the age of 80 at the Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid. In the following hours, many of his former colleagues and former friends have dedicated a heartfelt goodbye to him on social networks and one of them, journalist Sebastià d’Arbó, has told an intimate story in common with the deceased on his Facebook profile. .
Apparently, Domingo Castaño would have stolen a girlfriend from d’Arbó while they worked together at SER in the 1970s. “I got along very well with him even though he stole my TV girlfriend, Maria Luisa Seco, who presented children’s programs, but that’s life. Unfortunately, now they are both dead, and I, although older, “I’m still fighting,” Sebastià d’Arbó wrote in his profile.
The journalist and psychologist specialized in fantasy anthropology has also commented on the beginnings of Pepe Domingo Castaño in the media. “He was a producer and presenter, he was not a journalist. Over time on the radio he started doing soccer sports programs. He was a Real Madrid fan and I was a Culé fan. He inaugurated a new style of shouting and shouting into the microphone, it was horrible, but it was his style”.
D’Arbó also recalled that they both received the Ondas award the same year, “I think it was 1974 or 1975.” According to Wikipedia, it was in 1975 when D’Arbó won the Ondas award for best radio program for The Other Dimension, on the SER network. And, indeed the same year, Domingo Castaño also won as presenter of The Great Musical.
Pepe Domingo Castaño died after complications from a persistent throat infection that was resistant to different antibiotics. He had been suffering from these discomforts for some time when on Saturday he went to the hospital on his own feet. There they saw that he also had an intestinal infection that led to septicemia. He died at two in the morning after multiple organ failure.
