Javier Cárdenas (presenter)


Francisco Javier Cárdenas Pérez is a Spanish singer and television and radio presenter.

Radio

Cárdenas was only nine years old when he began working on the radio program Peques Unic, on Radio Juventud. At 16, he began to broadcast football matches for Antena 3 Radio. He also collaborated on the show Arús con leche, directed by his brother-in-law Alfonso Arús. From 1990 to 1995 he broadcast football matches, both on Radio Club 25 and M80 Radio.
In 1997, he directed and presented Segundos Fuera on Radio España. There were a multitude of radio sketches, with the voices of the main characters of this country. Something similar would later on the program On the attack, Onda Rambla, where he made an acid review, and humor, on the most important news of the week.
Since 2006, he has directed and presented the program Atrévete, in Cadena Dial, together with MJ Aledón, Isidro Montalvo, Roberto Alcaraz, Luis Rollán and others. According to the General Media Study, the Atrévete program was the second fastest growing morning show in Spain.
In 2008, he was awarded the Ondas Award for radio innovation for combining information, humor and entertainment, organizing a cruise during which a live radio was held over the weekend, with musical performances and competitions, with live participation from the listeners, and the coexistence of communicators and artists with the audience.
On March 7, 8, and 9, 2008, it created a precedent in the history of Spanish radio by giving all its listeners a cruise to the Principality of Monaco through the program Atrévete de Cadena Dial. Artists as important as Sergio Dalma, Conchita, Carlos Baute, Merche and Andy and Lucas joined the cruise.
In November 2009, Javier Cárdenas wa once again a pioneer with the Cruise of the Daredoes, taking 2,000 boat listeners to Nice over a weekend with artists such as Chenoa, Manuel Carrasco and Efecto Mariposa.
Throughout 2009, the program directed and presented by Javier Cárdenas Atrévete was the only one that grew in all the general EGM media studies among the more than 15,000 programs that exist in Spain. The morning radio program Atrévete, directed and presented by Javier Cárdenas, achieved a record audience in Cadena DIAL in 2009, reaching 960,000 daily listeners, a figure never achieved in the history of the radio network by such renowned professionals like Javier Sardá, Andreu Buenafuente or Alfonso Arús.
On July 15, 2010, was his last appearance on the "Atrévete" program of Cadena Dial, coinciding with the end of the season of the program, leaving it with another historical record when placing it, according to the second wave of the EGM 2010, with more than 1,070,000 daily listeners, something not previously achieved by anyone except the Top 40.
In 2015, he was awarded the "Antena de Oro" award for the best radio presenter in the whole of Spain, achievement achieved by having done a remarkable and exceptional work.
He is currently in the Europa FM chain presenting and directing the morning show Levántate y Cárdenas, along with collaborators such as Jorge Salvador, Sergi Más, Carlos Sobera, and Albert Lesan. According to the last EGM of the year 2010, Levántate y Cárdenas becomes the morning program of the music radios with more growth, increasing a 25% audience, reaching 594,000 listeners a day. But that audience rise was only a harbinger of what would come next. In just a year and a half, the morning of Europe FM is among the most powerful in the country, from the 486 thousand inherited to haunt the million listeners as in its dial chain stage, being the program that grew the most in the Spanish musical radio, as he did in his day in Cadena Dial where they have never repeated the figures that Cardenas left when he left. In the third EGM 2012 "Rise and Cardenas" exceeded one million listeners, becoming the program that grew most in the Spanish music radio. Like the weekends where he exceeded 400,000 listeners. During the last 6 consecutive years " Levántate y Cárdenas"It has been the radio program with the most increase in radio listeners, with which they have been proclaimed at present, as the absolute leader with the highest Share in all of Spain. Currently it is estimated that the number of listeners for the program "Levántate y Cárdenas" during the weekend is around two million.

Television

He started in the world of television also with his brother-in-law Alfonso Arús in the Força Barça program, which was broadcast in 1989 on TVE2.
In the 1992 - 1993 season he followed Arús in his passage through Antena 3, and became a reporter of the humor program Al ataque. His peculiar interviews, especially to a clairvoyant named Carlos Jesus, who claimed to be the reincarnation of another person and have a parallel existence on another planet, reached great public repercussion and Cárdenas went on to become one of the most famous personalities in the world. television with characters like the lighter boy and Tristanbraker, the ghost hunter.
It is thanks to this new way of doing journalism, what Cárdenas is worth to be a point of reference in programs like Sal y pimienta and No estamos locos between 1994 and 1997 in the regional channels and that same year he returns to TVE to drive, along with Alonso Caparrós and Asunción Embodies the program Videos de Primera becoming the most watched program of the summer on national television.
Cárdenas uses a caustic and ironic tone with his interviewees, with which he tries to expose the eccentricities of the character in question. This would be the style that would mark part of his later career, his boastful epithet, helped him to achieve not only good radio rankings and his own prestige, but also embarrassing and embarrassing moments for his guests.
After collaborating in La Parodia Nacional and receiving different awards for the best television program on Antena 3 together with Constantino Romero, in 1997 he presented first-rate videos, being one of the most watched during the summer. Later, he participated in the summer space El candelabro, directed by Tinet Rubira for Telecinco together with the children of the prestigious morning program SI Amanece Nos vamos de la Cadena SER. He substituted Jesús Vázquez in the mythical Gente con chispa program becoming once again the leading program of regional television and receiving the prestigious Minuto de Oro award for being the most watched program, and Nunca seremos a cult program, both of Telemadrid. Shortly after it is added to the Martian Chronicles by Javier Sardà. During this stage he directed one of the sections that focused on interviewing, in an acid and even humiliating way, television characters such as Tamara, Paco Porras or Leonardo Dantes.
In that stage in Telecinco, he recovers the way of doing that he used in the attack, interviewing quirky and sometimes grotesque characters. In this way, he makes famous figures such as Carmen de Mairena, El Pozí or La Pantoja de Puerto Rico.
In 2005 he was tried in Arona for lack of dignity of a disabled person interviewed. The appeal to the case was not made wait and through the resolution on the 19th of January 2010 absolution of the case is given to all involved, because before the interview, the aforementioned had given his approval to make use of it what was not It implied no abuse of their rights. In that instance, the court appointed the accusers to pay for the securities that involved the first confrontation. The fight did not end there and the accusing party, imputed to stronger instances, appealed to the Constitutional Court where finally, the ruling was in favor of the accusing party, giving the final opinion of perjury and derision to the interviewee.
After finishing Crónicas marcianas, he collaborated again with his brother Alfonso Arús and his sister Angie Cárdenas on Tan a gustito on TVE, making challenges with celebrities, such as the one he made with Carlos Baute making a dive with sharks in the aquarium of Barcelona.
In 2007, he presented the most important gala of the Cadena Dial music awards in Spanish for artists such as Chayanne, Paulina Rubio, Laura Pausini, Carlos Baute, Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Bosé, etc. for Cuatro y Autonómicas. In February 2008, he returns to repeat presentation of the gala of the most important awards of music in Spanish with artists such as Gloria Estefan, Juan Luis Guerra, Juanes, The 5th Station, Alejandro Fernández, Chambao, and others. Also in February 2008, he went on to direct and present on Localia TV The Eighth Commandment accompanied by Santiago Urrialde, Joaquín Prat Jr., MJ Aledón and Beatriz Jarrín, complemented by the reports of Urrialde himself and Miguel Martín, doing something unprecedented and having 400% more audience than the average of the chain with 90% less national coverage.
In June 2009, Antena 3 hired Cárdenas to co-present the afternoon program Tal cual with Cristina Lasvignes. On the third broadcast, he abandoned the program in the middle of the show, renouncing the multimillion-dollar contract he signed, since he did not accept to deal with issues related to the world of the heart. He also declined to present the end of year gala of 2009 in the regional channels.
Beginning in October 2016, he has hosted the daily Hora punta in La 1 of TVE. In July 2018 it was announced that Hora punta will move to showing one program per week. However, by the end of 2018, the show was cancelled.

Film, books, music and others

In 1999, he participated in the short film by Aure Roces entitled Rondadores Nocturnos 2.
Cárdenas has published the books Benditos seáis todos, in which he narrates his television experiences and the novel Acariciando un sueño with Martínez Roca.
In 2004, he writes, directs, produces and stars in the movie FBI: Frikis Wanna Incordiar, which pretended to be an acid critique of certain characters who live off what is known as telebasura, and it was one of the 20 highest-grossing Spanish films of that year occupying position 19 of the Spanish productions, also being one of the lowest budget, although it was not in the reviews. This film has the peculiarity of being the first film in which reality and fiction are combined in equal parts. The film was nominated for the Godoy Awards, by itself was nominated in many categories and won in 8 of them, Cárdenas won 4 of them.
In 2004, he recorded his first album: Siéntelo.
In February 2007 he presented the 2006 Dial Awards of the Cadena Dial radio station from the auditorium of Tenerife, delivering the most important awards of Latin music to Chayanne, Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Bosé, Paulina Rubio, Laura Pausini, Luis Fonsi, David Bisbal, Manuel Carrasco, Diego Martin, Álex Ubago, Yahir, Carlos Baute, David DeMaria, Malú,Nauzet and Antonio Carmona. Retransmitted for Spain by Cuatro y Autonómicas and live for all of Latin America.
In March 2008 he presented the 2007 Cadena Dial awards gala again from the auditorium of Tenerife for Spain for Cuatro y autonómicas, and live for all of Latin America where he once again presented the most important music awards in Spanish to Gloria Estefan, Juan Luis Guerra, Juanes, The Fifth Station, Chambao and Alejandro Fernandez, Andy & Lucas, David Bustamante, Conchita, Kiko & Shara, Luz Casal, Malú, Merche,Pastora Soler and Shaila Dúrcal.
On December 5, 2009 Javier Cárdenas presents the prestigious 10-year gala of Rolling Stone magazine, awarding the best artists of Spanish music such as Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Rios, Miguel Bosé, Marta Sánchez, Pereza, Loquillo, Manolo García, Leonor Watling, Macaco, Joan Manuel Serrat, etc.
In April 2010, the program directed by Javier Cárdenas has managed to pass the million listeners, practically doubling the best results of his previous predecessors. Placing the program Dare among the top 4 with the most audience in its time slot.
In May 2010, he received the Honorary Professor Diploma from the ESERP Business School, which reads as follows: "It expires Mr. Javier Cárdenas Pérez and his brilliant career, highlighting his work in the media and his analytical, executive and innovation capacity. journalistic that have enabled it to achieve the highest level of standing and professional projection. it is granted by unanimous agreement of the governing board the corresponding Honorary Professor.
In 2013, the Spanish Supreme Court condemns him for considering his attitude towards a disabled person interviewed in a TV5 report as burlesque. Despite the fact that, 11 years earlier, the case had been filed without penalty.
In 2016 he started working on a documentary about close encounters with death. This topic is passionate It is about explaining, aseptically, the experience of being with people who have experienced clinical death and have come back to life. Interview doctors who believe in this type of experience and others who say that everything is the product of imagination.
On October 26, 2016, he presented the project "A house, a life", a campaign that consisted of raffling his house to raise funds with the aim of contributing to the research of Idic15, a little-known disease in medicine. The project focused on the study of Mara's disease - a Valencian girl who suffers from the Idic15 syndrome. His father took a degree in medicine to investigate his daughter's illness, and after Cardenas had interviewed the man, he decided to draw his home in favor of the project, to finance a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Valencia.
The draw, organized by Lotteries State, took place in December 2016. As a result, the campaign has achieved the 123,000 euros needed to fund research idic15.