Urbano García Alonso (born 13 February 1965,

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) is a

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. In 2021 he was appointed Digital and Innovation Director with

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Biography

Urbano García attended the

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where he completed a degree in Information science. During his career he interned at the "El Periódico de Extremadura" and the "COPE", based in the province of Cáceres. In the last two years of his major, he worked in "Radiocadena Española", currently known as RNE, Spain´s national public radio service. In May 1989, he successfully sat the national entrance exams in order to work for TVE, the national public-service television broadcaster in Spain and he began to work there in September of the same year. He started to work as an editor but later he was passing through different positions as the news reader. He participated mainly in regional news programmes but also collaborated on music, agriculture and sports programmes. In 1991, he obtained the post of head on news opposition in which he had been practising for one year. In 1996, he was appointed director of '' TVE Extremadura'' and he remained in that position until 2002. Between 2008 and 2011, he took a break from TVE and began working in

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as head of sports and planning and he also had a post in the presentation and management of programmes such as '' Todo DXT'' and '' Zona Champions'', a sports programme. When he finished the stage in

, he returned to work in TVE as an editor and a news presenter. He has been the director of

Extremadura. He resides in

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References

U. García, personal interview, in 19 April 2013

External links

in "Placentinos ilustres" *https://www.rtve.es/noticias/extremadura/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Alonso, Urbano Garcia 1965 births Living people Spanish journalists Complutense University of Madrid alumni People from Plasencia