Matías Prats Cañete MML (4 December 1913 – 8 September 2004) was a Spanish radio and television journalist. He was best known for his sports narrations and for being the narrator of the No-Do during part of the franquism period. He is father of

Matías Prats Luque Matías Prats Luque (; born 14 September 1952) is a Spanish sports and news journalist. Matías Prats graduated in law and journalism. The journalist, son of the legendary Matías Prats Cañete, began his career at radio station La Voz de Madr ...

, who is also a journalist and anchor on Antena 3 and grandfather of Matías Prats Chacón, a sports host in

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Career

Shortly after the end of the

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Prats began his career as assistant on Radio Algeciras, later he moved to Málaga where he worked as announcer of bullfights on RNE and shortly after as football announcer. In 1945 he returned to Madrid following the inauguration of the new RNE studios in

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. In 1947 he was promoted to head of the Department of Performing Stations and from the same year until 1971 he was responsible of the writing and speeching of the ''Noticiarios y Documentales Cinematográficos'' ( No-Do). He also worked in

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since its inception in 1956 until 1965 as announcer of football matches and bull fightings, credits on TVE include ''Pantalla deportiva'' (1959), ''La Copa'' (1963), ''Graderío'' (1963) and ''Ayer domingo'' (1965). He retired in 1985, however, works in radio ended in 1974.

Awards

*1955:

Premio Ondas The Premios Ondas (Spanish language, Spanish: literally "wave awards", also known in English as the Ondas Awards or simply The Ondas) have been given since 1954 by Radio Barcelona, a subsidiary of Cadena SER, in recognition of professionals in t ...

as best sports announcer *1965: Premio Microfono de Oro *1965: Premio Ondas Special award due to his 20 years of work on RNE *1993: Premio Víctor de la Serna for best journalism work during the year *1996: Premio Ondas as best journalism work *1999: Premio ATV on radio *2000: Premio ATV for his life on radio

Honours

* Gold Medal of Merit in Labour (Kingdom of Spain, 30 April 1998).Boletín Oficial del Estado
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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prats, Matias 1913 births 2004 deaths People from Córdoba, Spain Spanish radio personalities Spanish television presenters 20th-century Spanish journalists