Spain woke up last Sunday, September 17, with the terrible news of the death of Pepe Domingo Castaño. The renowned announcer died at the age of 80 at the Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid.
His colleagues from the program Tiempo de Juego on the Cope Network were in charge of announcing the news that "they never wanted to arrive": "Pepe has left suddenly, surrounded by his people." Although many of his loved ones knew that he had been admitted to the medical center, no one expected the tragic end of the veteran communicator.
"This family will never beat the same again without you but, for you, we will continue... We still don't know how we are going to do it but we will continue to fill the void that you leave us with life and radio (...) We love you Pepe, we love you We love and will always love you as you have taught us, with joy and united," his colleagues shared in the message in which they announced to their followers that Castaño had died.
Paco González, director of the sports program for which Castaño was known and revered by thousands of listeners in our country, connected yesterday live to the program El tertulión, by Juanma Castaño, and expressed being completely shocked by the news.
The director of the radio program explained that he believed that Castaño would leave his job little by little and that he did not imagine at all that this misfortune would happen from one day to the next.
''I have a personal fear of Tuesday, which I suppose will be the first program I have to do, and looking at that chair and it being empty. I have done it more times, but he was (...) I will no longer have a single advertisement for Pepe, nor a game with Pepe at my side, nor a program with Pepe at my side, nor a dinner...'' , he explained with a broken voice.
González also expressed his gratitude in the program to all the people who have dedicated nice words to his friend, since "he deserved them all." In addition, he explained what it was like to live with him in his last days and how he found out about the tragedy: "Two Saturdays ago, the day before the national team break, he came and had a bad throat. He went to the doctor and they treated him and since it didn't work, "They changed his treatment. At the end of this week, Thursday-Friday, he was very tired, and yesterday Tere told us that they were staying hospitalized."
''Hevia and I said to each other "what Pepe is suffering" because everything related to the robes caused him apprehension and we did not expect that at the end of all this what has happened would happen. "He called us his little son last night and told us that there was no solution," he said before the attentive listening of Juanma Castaño.
