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The journalist Marcelo Baffa, from La Red and an outstanding radio and graphic career, died


Marcelo Baffa, with an outstanding career in radio media, passed away today at the age of 61.

Marcelo baffa, one of the drivers of the successful cycle The Lengthen, which is issued by Radio La Red every morning, he died this Thursday after passing three days with fever and be admitted. In recent years he had suffered Heart problems and, for being risk patient, went on air from your home. In addition to his love for radio, era historian football and a specialist in making central studies during match broadcasts.

His biography on social networks says he had “42 years in journalism.” Those who dealt with him say that he was an “old-fashioned journalist” who disdained technology to do his job and preferred to write down everything with a pencil, paper and ruler, as he did there in La Oral Deportiva directed by José María Muñoz, in the that also knew how to stand out. He started on Radio Rivadavia, learned from a master of the trade like Fioravanti and clung to the success of the early mornings with his partner Cali Fidalgo, who tonight did not have the words to say goodbye: “Friends, I’m here writing this that I would not have wanted write, but Marcelo has just passed away. I’m going to try to do the program in honor of him. To my friend and partner. “

Baffa was 61 years old, since he was born on March 1, 1959. Throughout his career he had steps on Radio Rivadavia, Radio Oriental de Uruguay (with Víctor Hugo Morales, who today lost another of his emotional companions, Osvaldo “Turco” Wehbe) and La Red, as well as Solo Fútbol magazine and Diario Popular, where his love for graphics emerged.

“I grew up without a cell phone. The first connection I made was in Barracas Central-Deportivo Riestra. When there was a goal I would walk through Olavarría to the 59 terminal, I would ask them if I could use the phone, I would call Radio Rivadavia and give the report Today with a cell phone you can make a football broadcast. I tell a kid about it now and they don’t believe it, “he said in an interview with Radio Gráfica last year. Until a couple of days ago he was talking on the air with Fidalgo from his home. I already had a fever. His listeners, the usual ones, already miss him.

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