Maria Maceo sensing in the radio home and family
María Maceo Ortiz feels in the radio home and family. Everything she looks for she finds there, joy, information, knowledge… Faithful listeners like her rejoice the different collectives of Radio Grito de Baire because she assures that the quality of the programming traps them.
She is always there, ready to form and to take part when needed, she offered her modest services as a receptionist. Here she became much more attached to that magic box and she knows, very well, each of the directors of Contramaestre radio.
Recently, on the 97th anniversary of the founding of Cuban Radio, María Maceo and her family were awarded a recognition for being protagonist listeners of this station.
On the way to the thirtieth anniversary of Grito de Baire, to be celebrated on February 24, 2020, we interviewed this lady who accompanies her days listening to good radio.
Q: Are you the type of person who gets up and turns on the radio?
María Maceo (M): When I wake up, the first thing I do is to tune in to Contacto Matutino, that informative magazine that has everything. Current news, comments, good music, reflections, tips for life, I love it. When I do not have a radio, I feel lonely. Sometimes I travel to Holguín to see relatives and I feel that I lack a piece of myself. Radio is part of my life.
Q: Any positive or negative experiences involved with radio
M: As a program assistant, I listened to calls from a family in a place known as Bayonrá, back in Guaninao, with the surname Maceo. Coincidentally in that family there was a woman named Maria Maceo, just like me. I was surprised by the coincidence, I inquired until I found them and today, thanks to the radio, we are a bigger family, although we have no blood ties but heart.
Q: Every day you are seen in the corridors of Grito de Baire, what does this fraternal relationship with the directors mean for Maria Maceo?
M: I always receive the support of the radio workers and I help them in the programs, I give interviews, I propose subjects to them to treat, I like that there is quality and if I can be part of that much better. I am a very active person, I cooperate with whatever is needed and I also like to listen to myself.
Q: How do you relate to the radio in your family?
M: My mother also barely gets up when she turns on the radio and listens to all the programming of Grito de Baire. My husband Marbel Quesada Lopez loves the multi award-winning Sunday children’s program, Polichinela. He says it’s a combination of teaching and good humor.
María Maceo Ortiz recognizes that making radio, even though it’s beautiful, is not easy at all. As she is always among the directors, she admires the devotion this profession entails. She congratulates everyone for their daily work and urges them to celebrate the thirty years of the Contramaestre radio house with the same love that makes the people trust her and feel her as a family.
Written by Radio Grito de Baire
