BRATISLAVA – Announcer Ada Straková is one of the legends of Czechoslovak television. Her pleasant voice, which we listened to for 16 years, still rings in our ears today.
The gate of the television world opened for Ada Straková at an audition in May 1970, which she won among 120 girls. “I took up the post of program announcer a month after graduation in August 1970 and remained there until my involuntary departure in May 1996. A year later, I moved with my family to Prague, where I worked off-screen for 18 years, including as an author , on diverse and interesting projects. But that’s for a separate chapter,” said the ex-announcer.
In her beginnings in television, she was helped the most by the then editor-in-chief Dušan Gábor, but also by her colleague and friend, with whom she works to this day, Norika Beňačková. “Thanks to my work, I have met many rare and wise people whom I would have had difficulty meeting otherwise. They have enriched my life,” praises the years spent in public television.
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Ada Straková (Source: AS archive)
Straková was always very responsible for every word she uttered in front of the camera. That is why he has no memory of any serious offense or misdeed in front of the maera. “But once this lovely thing happened to me,” she remembered before. “It was already after midnight and I said goodbye to the audience with an overview of the programs for the next day. I had no idea that I was not alone in the announcement room. There was also a big butcher fly with me, which after a few sentences sat on my cheek and started walking around. My louder and more expressive articulation didn’t help either. I endured it for a while, but not for long. I finished the overview with the program around 12.00 and it was painted…” she laughs today at an incident that she probably didn’t find too funny at the time.
