The longest career as a television news broadcaster was achieved by Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros (Ecuador) who anchored television news without interruption from 1 March 1967 until today (last verified on 22 May 2014), a total of 47 years 83 days.

Alfonso began his career as a television news anchor for Ecuavisa on 1 March, 1967, the same year of the foundation of the TV channel. Since then, he has been a part of the news program Televistazo and is currently the news vice-president of Ecuavisa.

By the time he had worked for 40 years, Alfonso had already seen 14 presidents, 2 dictators and several coups. The only significant break in his career was when in 1970, during the dictatorship of Velasco Ibarra, the station decided to go off air for a period of three months.