birth_place status ethnicity birth_date article_title name occupation
san sebastián , basque country , spain retired spanish 24 march 1943 pedro erquicia
 pedro erquicia journalist and news anchor
pedro erquicia

pedro erquicia lópez de montenegro -lrb- born 24 march 1943 in san sebastián -rrb- is a spanish journalist and news anchor .
he entered in 1965 to televisión española where he developed all his television career .
the first tv program that he presented was `` panorama de actualidad '' from 1968 until 1970 and tve 's newscast `` telediario '' -lrb- 1972-1973 -rrb- .
in 1973 erquicia created one of the longest running programs in spanish tv : `` informe semanal '' , which resumes the news and affairs of the last seven days -lrb- based upon cbs 's `` 60 minutes '' -rrb- .
he directed it until 1978 and anchored it from 1976 until 1968 .
in 1987 he was fired by tve and later he joined the then recently created public broadcaster telemadrid .
in 1990 erquicia returned to tve when he was hired to direct and anchor `` documentos tv '' and from 1996 until 2007 he was in charge of the direction of programs of current affairs and investigation .
in april 2008 erquicia reaches retirement .
