Orlando Petinatti

Freddy Nieuchowicz Abramovich (born 30 March 1968), also known as Orlando Petinatti, is a Uruguayan radio personality, businessman, and television presenter. He is renowned for hosting the radio program ''Malos Pensamientos'', which has been broadcast since 1991 and the program with the largest audience on radio in Uruguay.

Early life

Petinatti was born in Montevideo, on March 30, 1968, to Aída Abramovich and Bernardo Nieuchowicz. His family is Jewish and descends from Lithuanian Jewish immigrants on his mother's side and Polish Jews on his father's side. He grew up in the Palermo neighborhood, and attended the Jewish Yavne Institute, where his parents worked, and was a member of the basketball team of the Hebraica Macabi.

Career

Radio

His beginning in the media were in El Dorado FM 100.3, in 1987 on the radio program ''El Subterráneo'' hosted by Daniel Figares, where he played a comic character who interrupted the normal broadcast of the program. In 1991 he created the program Malos Pensamientos that was initially broadcast by Emisora del Palacio, in 1992 it began to be broadcast by CX 32 Radiomundo and lasted two hours.

From 1995 it was broadcast simultaneously by Oceano FM and CX 32 Radiomundo with a duration of three hours. The following year it was only broadcast by Oceano FM. In the same year, he also hosted another morning comedy show called Jack the Alarm Clock. Since 1994 the popularity of the program has been increasing. One of the most popular sections of the show is titled "The Hand," where the audience asks Petinatti for help solving problems on love, sexual, family, and other issues.

Television

Until 1993, he participated in ''El Show del Mediodía'', a program hosted by Cacho de la Cruz and broadcast by Teledoce. There he portrayed various humorous characters. Years later, in 1996, he hosted a micro program called Oca's Game of the Million, also broadcast by Teledoce. He also presented the programs Wednesday Night and his successor: Mil Perdones.

Between 2003 and 2016 he annually hosted the '' Teletón Uruguay'' event. In 2005 he hosted the program ''Distracción'' broadcast on Channel 10. Later, in 2007, he hosted ''Mundo Cruel'', a humor and entertainment program also on Channel 10.

In September 2019, it was confirmed that he would serve as a judge in ''Got Talent Uruguay'', which premiered on 22 June 2020, on Channel 10. The other judges are María Noel Ricceto, Claudia Fernández and Agustín Casanova.

Business

Petinatti is responsible for the sale of advertising in its program, both in the advertising sessions and in the program. He integrates, as managing partner, different companies from the radio and television sector, such as On Air S.R.L., Friday S.R.L., as well as companies from other areas.

Controversies

In April 2016, with the leak of financial information «Panama Papers» it was revealed that he appears as president and director of the LIVINGSTONE TRADING INC. founded in 2000.

References

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1968 births
People from Montevideo
Uruguayan Jews
Uruguayan people of Polish-Jewish descent
Uruguayan people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Uruguayan television presenters
Uruguayan radio presenters
Living people
People named in the Panama Papers