Antonio Carrizo, the "lord of the radio" in Argentina, has died at age 89.

[forest444]

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The legendary Argentine journalist, broadcaster and entertainer, Antonio Carrizo, died today in Buenos Aires of complications from a stroke. Carrizo, whose career spanned seven decades, was known as el señor de la radio ("the lord of the radio&quot in Argentina.

A son of Italian immigrants whose real name was Antonio Carrozzi, he debuted in 1948 on Radio El Mundo and soon became head of programming. Carrizo later produced a number of his own radio programs, notably Cíclo Los Intérpretes (Performers' Series), devoted to folk and classical music; Papeles Sueltos (Loose Papers), an intellectual round table; and his best-known production, a musical news and interview program called La Vida y El Canto (Life and Song), which aired on Radio Rivadavia from 1971 until a stroke ended his career in 2008.

Carrizo also had numerous film credits and hosted top-rated television programs such as the variety show Sábados Continuados (Rolling Saturdays) in the 1960s and Polémica en el Fútbol (Football Controversy), a popular football analysis program, in the 1970s. He was also successful in comedy, notably as co-host with Juan Carlos Calabró in the 1990s television comedy sketch series El Contra (The Contrarian) in which Carrizo played the straight man to Calabró's impossibly skeptical title character.

A man of varied cultural interests, he was chosen by his peers as president of the Society of Argentine Bibliophiles and of the Argentine Chess Federation. Among the chess champions he befriended was the American Grand Master Bobby Fischer, who stayed in Carrizo's home during most of his many visits to Buenos Aires over the years.

During a particularly difficult match with Argentine Grand Master Miguel Quinteros, Fischer nearly shattered Carrizo's Japanese forest glass coffee table. "Let him win," Carrizo whispered to Quinteros, "before that son of a bitch breaks my table!"

Carrizo was 89.

At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/205935/celebrated-radio-tv-host-antonio-carrizo-dies

[Judi Lynn]

1. Antonio Carrizo seems to have been an extraordinary man, who gave so much to his culture.

Such diverse interests! I am glad to see he created a show which featured classical music. We surely could have used a guy like him in this country, no doubt about that!

Sounds as if he kept busy his entire life, knew hordes of people over the years, and was absolutely enjoyed widely.l

Doubtful there will be another one like him. Argentina was lucky to be his home.

Thank you.

[forest444]

2. He was lucky in that he found his passion, and made it into a great career.

Argentine radio is incredibly diverse though (I can only claim to be familiar with a tiny percentage of it), so I know there are others with that same kind of gravitas.

Of the ones I know of, one of my favorites over the last few years has to be Carlos Barragán. Fast-paced (but not frantic), opinionated, and witty, he was very shamefully sacked from the Clarín Group's flagship station, Radio Mitre, in 2008 for, of all things, criticizing Pope Benedict XVI. History, of course, later proved Barragán right.

In recent years, he's been one of the main commentators in public radio and television - which, of course, means his days in Argentine public broadcasting are numbered (his round table discussion show on tv, the top-rated 678, has already been cancelled by personal order of the Macrilissimo himself).

The GOP must really be taking notes.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Looks as if he intends to control every detail. Ordinarily you wouldn't expect a President to meddle

in broadcast programming, would you?

Looks as if that fascist element has always been right in there, pushing and shoving, even though they disgraced and horrified the human race with their evil Dirty War. They don't seem to want to bend at all, looks as if they'll keep trying to dominate until the world finally gets too tired with them to indulge them any longer.

They don't play well with human beings, do they?

Yes, the G.O.P. started attacking our own Public Broadcast System, and National Public Radio in the 1980's, throwing fits about them, and the fascists in Congress got to work withdrawing funding from them, bit by bit, until they destroyed them, and they've been doing their bidding every day since then. Former fans of what used to be excellent, informative, educational, wonderful networks had a hard time believing it was happening until it was far too late. No one expected that such ignorant, backwards Congresspeople could have such an impact on something respected across the country.

As long as these social deviants are obsessed with controlling everything, they can take over, unfortunately, and then it's so much harder to get rid of them than if people had simply been firm with them in the first place.

Liars, cheats, schemers, bullies. Fascists.

It's hard hearing that the same things have been going on in Argentina.