Inés Aleida Sánchez Guarde de Revuelta

Inés Sánchez

Cuban journalist naturalized as a Costa Rican, host of the Costa Rican television program Tele Club,​ which has been broadcast continuously since 1963, she has broken several records with this program in which she claims to have sought to express herself freely as a journalist. Inés Sánchez de Revuelta has been an indispensable woman in Costa Rican television.

She is the daughter of Spanish parents; her mother was a very humble woman from Castilla, Spain, her father from Asturias, both very humble. As a child she did not dream of cameras; it was out of "disobedience" that she became hooked on microphones, radio and television booths.

Inés studied tailoring, dressmaking, and piano in secondary school; upon graduating she chose to train as a radio announcer; she also studied journalism and took courses in advertising and marketing, knowledge that this versatile producer, presenter, and interviewer has undoubtedly brought to Teleclub.

She arrived in Costa Rica in June 1961 accompanied by her husband, Ernesto Revuelta Milán. After facing economic difficulties she found her first job at the Radio Monumental news program and later joined the program Las Estrellas se reúnen, by Santiago Ferrando. She was in that space for 25 years. In Cuba she worked in radio and television, and also acted in soap operas and cinema.

Tele Club is the program she has had on the air all these years, since its first broadcast on February 8, 1963.​ The program is directed at the female audience, more precisely at housewives.​

Tele Club started on Channel 4, then moved three channels up: to Teletica Channel 7, then went to Repretel Channel 6, then to Channel 2 and until 2002 its home was Channel 4, to move to Channel 13 until 2015; it currently broadcasts on Televisora de Costa Rica on Teletica Channel 33.

On January 21, 2002 the program was interrupted due to a myocardial infarction suffered by Inés that left her between life and death.​ She returned to the program on May 2 of that same year.​

Inés Sánchez holds two Guinness records: that of the longest educational program in history (on a world level) and that of the host of an educational program with the most years on the air.​ According to the journalist, Tele Club came to fill the lack of a family program on Costa Rican television.​ The program has more than 13,000 editions.

In November 2012, Ms. Inés Sánchez de Revuelta, director and host of the TELECLUB program on Channel 13, was awarded a decoration called "The Order of the Rising Sun, Rays of Gold and Silver," in the name of His Majesty Emperor Akihito of Japan.

Apart from being a leader, Inés is an independent woman. She drives her own car and lives alone. Her only companion at home was a cat. She is a widow, has three daughters (Inés, Irene, and Ivania) and four grandchildren who all come and visit her, she talks a lot on the phone but lives alone.

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