Àngel Casas
{{Short description|Spanish journalist (1946–2022)}}
{{family name hatnote|Casas|Mas|lang=Catalan}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Àngel Casas
|image = Angel Casas.JPG
|caption = Casas in 2012
|birth_name = Àngel Casas i Mas
|birth_place = Barcelona, Spain
|birth_date = {{birth date|1946|04|17|df=y}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|2022|10|01|1946|04|17|df=y}}
|death_place = Barcelona, Spain
|occupation = Journalist, writer
}}
Àngel Casas i Mas (17 April 1946 – 1 October 2022) was a Spanish journalist and writer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.3cat.cat/324/mor-als-76-anys-el-mitic-periodista-angel-casas-pioner-del-talk-show-a-catalunya/noticia/3187571/|title=The legendary journalist Àngel Casas, pioneer of the talk show in Catalonia, dies at the age of 76|work=CCMA|date=1 October 2022|access-date=1 October 2022|language=Catalan}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ara.cat/media/gegant-televisio-mestre-periodistes-mon-comunicacio-plora-mort-d-angel-casas_1_4505692.html|title="A tv giant" and "master of journalists": the world of communication mourns the death of Àngel Casas|first=Alejandra|last=Palés|work=Ara|date=1 October 2021|access-date=1 October 2022|language=Catalan}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ara.cat/media/casas-show-durara-sempre_1_4505704.html|title=Casas, the show will last forever|work=Ara|first=Toni|last=Vall|date=1 October 2022|access-date=1 October 2022|language=Catalan}}
Biography
Casas began his career at Radio Juventud, then moved to Radio Barcelona. Among the programs he presented was Trotadiscos, which won a Premios Ondas in 1972. In the same year, he published the book 45 revolutions in Spain, a sociological and musical analysis of the sixties.{{Citation|title=Interview, Àngel Casas|work=La Xarxa|first=Alfred|last=Rodriguez Pico|language=Catalan|date=7 October 2012}}
In 1978, Casas worked at Radio 4 on one of the first Catalan-language programmes La clau i el duro, in which he described locations in Barcelona.{{Cite web|url=http://www.elpuntavui.cat/comunicacio/article/20-comunicacio/485820-la-radio-de-la-resistencia.html?cca=1|title=The Radio of Resistance|work=El Punt|date=14 December 2011|access-date=1 October 2022|language=Catalan}} He started working in television in 1977, under the guidance of Carlos Tena and Diego A. Manrique, on the musical program Popgrama, on Televisión Española. After that, Casas presented and directed his own programme on La 1 and NME from 1980 to 1983.
In 1984, when Televisió de Catalunya started broadcasting, Casas worked there and became the star of the channel with his own program Àngel Casas Show, a talk show that remained on the screen until 1988. The programme earned him the 1984 Golden Antenna Award and also a Premios Ondas. He was hired to work at the Cadena SER to help present the magazine El sermón. He served as the director for Barcelona Televisió from 2008 to 2014, but retired due to ill health.
In 2020, he had a kidney transplant and subsequently suffered from calciphylaxis, which resulted in the amputation of both of his legs.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ara.cat/media/he-sortit-l-infern_128_4075264.html|title=Angel Casas: "I've come out of hell"|work=Ara|first=Toni|last=Vall|date=3 August 2021|access-date=1 October 2022|language=Catalan}} He was honored with the Creu de Sant Jordi for his known work.{{Citation|title=The 2007 St. George's Crosses are reduced to one third|work=Directe.cat|language=Catalan|date=13 June 2007}} Casas died on 1 October 2022 in Barcelona, at the age of 76.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ara.cat/media/mor-angel-casas-l-esperit-mes-trencador-tv3-primerenca_1_4505673.html|title=Àngel Casas, the most groundbreaking spirit of early TV3, dies|first=Alex|last=Gutierrez|work=Ara|date=1 October 2021|access-date=1 October 2022|language=Catalan}}
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Category:Writers from Barcelona
Category:20th-century Spanish male writers
Category:21st-century Spanish male writers
Category:Spanish male journalists