| María Casado | |
| Birth Date: | 14 March 1978 |
| Birth Place: | Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation: | Television presenter, journalist |
| Employer: | RNE, Catalunya Ràdio, TVE, Soho TV |
| Yearsactive: | 1999–present |
María Casado Paredes (born 14 March 1978) is a Spanish journalist and presenter. She is known for her longstanding involvement in the newscast department of Televisión Española (TVE) from 2005 to 2020.
Born in Barcelona on 14 March 1978.[1] After earning a licentiate degree in journalism from the University of Barcelona, she started working for the public radio broadcaster Radio Nacional de España (RNE) in 1999,[2] as editor in Ràdio 4. After a brief spell in the Catalan public radio broadcaster Catalunya Ràdio as producer of El matí, she returned to RNE in 2003.[3]
She entered TVE's newscast service in 2005. She became the anchor of the weekend edition of the Telediario in 2006 and co-hosted Informe Semanal from 2007 to 2009.[4] She joined the political debate program in 2009 (she had already hosted its Catalan-language equivalent 59 segons in the TV blocks of the Spanish public broadcaster in Catalonia).[5] After the latter Globomedia-produced program was axed because of its costs in 2012, Casado briefly continued as host of its successor ,[6] as she soon became the presenter of the breakfast television news program Los Desayunos de TVE in that year, replacing Ana Pastor.[7] She left Los Desayunos in 2016 to replace Mariló Montero as host of the morning television show La Mañana.[8] She became the chairwoman of the Spain's Academy of Television and Audiovisual Arts and Sciences in 2018. In 2020, after 4 years hosting La Mañana, she was replaced by the meteorologist Mònica López as presenter of the show, which was renamed as La Hora de La 1.[9] [10] She subsequently left TVE and joined Antonio Banderas' Málaga-based production company Soho TV.[11] [12]
In 2020, Casado was the presenter on the Banderas-directed music web television series Escena en blanco y negro, released on Amazon Prime Video.[13] On 6 March 2021, Casado and Banderas directed and hosted the 35th Goya Awards ceremony.[14]
Her return to TVE was announced in October 2021, set the host a weekly show produced in Sant Cugat del Vallès.[15]