Ángel Faus Belau, Honorary Professor of the School of Communication of the University of Navarra passed away last August 30. He was born in Villareal (Castellón) in 1936 and became the first doctor in communication in Spain. He taught dozens of classes of students at School of Communication at the University of Navarra and set the instructions of radio and television teaching.

At the end of the fifties, he met Antonio G. Calderón, promoter of Teatro en el aire and great creator of radio narrative in Spain, with whom he always maintained a great friendship. He completed his programs of study in Europe, in Radio Tele Luxembourg and Berlin, where he was student of professors Emil Dovifat and Otto Groth.

On March 10, 1979, Ángel Faus defended the first doctoral thesis in Communication in Spain, entitled 'La tecnología en la información televisiva', directed by Full Professor Alfonso Nieto. In this work, Faus and Nieto delved into the influence of technology on television and its consequences on the medium and on the information offered; in addition to reflecting on its effect on society and laying the groundwork instructions for future research.

For almost four decades at teaching, Ángel Faus was one of the historic professors at School de Comunicación. Together with Manuel Martín Ferrand and Iñaki Gabilondo (and, later, Juan José García Noblejas), he initiated the radio and television programs of study at School of Communication. In Pamplona, he directed the construction and start-up of the first radio studio created in a Spanish university in 1965.

He also contributed with a solid research work, reflected in the direction of doctoral thesis , the consultancy service media, participation in conferences and editorial boards of journals, and numerous publications.

His books include "La ciencia periodística de Otto Groth" (1966); "La radio: introducción a un medio desconocido" (1974), which was the first guide dedicated to explaining the language of radio and which had a second corrected edition in 1981; "La información televisiva y su tecnología" (1980); "La era audiovisual: historia de los primeros cien años de la radio y la televisión" (1995); and, most recently, "La radio en España. Una historia documental" (2007), the first part of an exhaustive documentary work on which he was still working. 

Faus Belau started Radio Universidad de Navarra, which began broadcasting at test on September 29, 1999. A pioneer among university radio stations in Spain, it has also been a breeding ground for dozens of professionals in the media.