Departures of note

Alfonso Nasarre Goicoechea was a Spanish journalist and broadcasting executive with a long career spanning the Cadena COPE, the Spanish government's communication services, and public radio and television. Born in Madrid in 1958, he graduated in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and began his professional work in the news services of Cadena COPE, where he served as reporter, parliamentary correspondent, political correspondent, and chief editor of the National Politics section.

In 1997, during the government of José María Aznar, he joined the State Secretariat for Communication of the Ministry of the Presidency as an executive adviser. He later became director general of the Office of Informative Monitoring and, in 2002, director general of National Information. After leaving government in 2004, he returned to Cadena COPE as director of Communication and later as director of Antena and a member of its management committee.

In 2012 he moved to RTVE, first as director of Communication and Institutional Relations and then, from 2013 to 2018, as director general of Radio Nacional de España (RNE). In August 2021 he was appointed director of Onda Madrid, the public radio of the Community of Madrid, a post he held until his death in 2026 at the age of 67.