Enrique Gratas
Enrique Gratas was a news anchor and journalist best known for helming the Telemundo newscast Ocurrió Así (It Happened Like This) and Univision’s Última Hora (Last Hour). The latter was the second most popular Spanish newscast in the United States.
Gratas began working in 1966, as a radio personality in his native Argentina, and shifted to television news a year later. In 1971 he moved to the United States, where he worked as a correspondent for Argentine television. He later covered sports at Los Angeles’s KWHY-TV and KMEX-TV, and then worked as the director of New Jersey’s WXTV.
In 1990 he moved to Miami and anchored Telemundo’s flagship show, Ocurrió Así, the network’s first daily investigative news magazine. In 1999, Gratas left for Univision, where he launched Última Hora, which aired for another 10 years.
He then relocated to Estrella TV, where he was the news anchor for Cierre de Edición and Noticiero con Enrique Gratas.
Enrique Gratas was a news anchor and journalist best known for helming the Telemundo newscast Ocurrió Así (It Happened Like This) and Univision’s Última Hora (Last Hour). The latter was the second most popular Spanish newscast in the United States.
Gratas began working in 1966, as a radio personality in his native Argentina, and shifted to television news a year later. In 1971 he moved to the United States, where he worked as a correspondent for Argentine television. He later covered sports at Los Angeles’s KWHY-TV and KMEX-TV, and then worked as the director of New Jersey’s WXTV.
In 1990 he moved to Miami and anchored Telemundo’s flagship show, Ocurrió Así, the network’s first daily investigative news magazine. In 1999, Gratas left for Univision, where he launched Última Hora, which aired for another 10 years.
He then relocated to Estrella TV, where he was the news anchor for Cierre de Edición and Noticiero con Enrique Gratas.
Among many others, Gratas interviewed George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell. He covered every American president since Richard Nixon, both wars in Iraq, many natural disasters and more. In 1996 he won a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Gratas died October 8, 2015, in Burbank, California. He was 71.
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