Satcha Pretto Biography
Satcha Pretto is a Honduran journalist and the news co-anchor of the popular Univision Network morning show Despierta America.
How old is Satcha Pretto? – Age
She is 41 years old as of 5 April 2021. She was born in 1980 in La Paz, Honduras.
Satcha Pretto Family – Education
She is the daughter of Liz Padilla from Honduras and Rolando Pretto from Panama. She grew up in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from the age of three to the age of eighteen. In 1996, her father died of a heart attack.
Pretto attended bilingual schools in Honduras, including Mayan Elementary and Macris High Schools in Tegucigalpa. Her outstanding academic record earned her a scholarship to Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, in 1998. She earned a B.A. in Communications in 2001. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.
Who is Satcha Pretto Husband? – Marriage
Pretto married Aaron Butler, a US businessman, in Barcelona in 2013, the same city where he proposed a year before. Bruce Butler, their son, was born in 2014, and Alana Butler, their daughter, in 2016.
Satcha Pretto Career
Satcha had the opportunity to work at a radio station while still in high school in Honduras at the age of 17, thanks to the National Broadcasters Association of Honduras. She was hired by Radio Suprema Stereo 99.5 in Tegucigalpa, where she received intensive training for three months before taking to the airwaves. In August 1997, she made her radio debut as the host of a three-hour live show. Pretto aired the show for a year.
She began her professional career as a television journalist in Midland-Odessa, Texas, as a reporter and anchor of KTLE-late Telemundo’s night newscast. She was also able to work as a reporter for KWES-TV channel 9, an NBC affiliate and sister station to Telemundo KTLE. From January 2002 to September 2003, Pretto worked in West Texas.
Pretto relocated to Dallas, Texas, in October 2003, to co-anchor KUVN channel 23’s 5:00 p.m. newscast, Cinco en Punto, and to report for the late-night newscast, Edición Nocturna. Pretto previously worked for CNN Cable Network as a reporter for Anderson Cooper 360 and the now-defunct Paula Zahn Now. Pretto’s most memorable interview in Dallas occurred in March 2006, with famous Chilean writer Isabel Allende.
Satcha Pretto was named the new co-host of the highly-rated daily newsmagazine Primer Impacto – Fin de Semana on Saturday and Sunday, 5:00-6:00 p.m. ET/PT, by Univision Communications Inc. on July 13, 2006. (4:00-5:00 p.m. CT). Pretto hosted the Univision Network’s broadcast of the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade just six months after joining the network, and he did so again in January 2008.
Pretto covered Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Brazil in May 2007 and was later chosen to be part of a select group of 70 journalists who traveled with the pope during his visit to the United States in 2008. Pretto made history as the first female journalist from a Spanish-language media outlet in the United States to board the Pope’s plane. Pretto joined Univision’s Despierta América! on July 18, 2011.
She was chosen to be a part of El Noticiero, a student-produced news program in English and Spanish, in 2001. She received an Emmy nomination for her work on the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade broadcast. Vanidades magazine honored her in the journalism category with its “Tribute to Hispanic Women” award in 2005. In 2010, she was named to the magazine “People en Espanol’s” exclusive list of the “50 Most Beautiful.” It named her one of the “25 Most Powerful Women” in 2017.
What is Satcha Pretto Net Worth?
She has an estimated net worth of $7 Million.