He was born in Huelva on June 28, 1937 at 13 Gravina Street, the home where his parents lived, Vicenta Pineda, 32 years old, a native of Gibraleón (Huelva) and Jesús Hermida, 34 years old, a native of Nigrán (Pontevedra). and a stoker by profession, who at the time of delivery was sailing on the ship where he worked.

He studied at the San Casiano School and high school at the La Rábida Institute in Huelva, where Juan Ramón Jiménez and the parliamentary journalist Víctor Márquez Reviriego, among others, were also students.

His first experience in the media was on Radio Nacional de España in Huelva, where his first intervention in front of a microphone was announcing a program saying the word “resurge”. He also works at the newspaper Odiel, where he publishes numerous articles and reports until he decides to go to Madrid to broaden his horizons.

In Madrid he studied Philosophy and Journalism at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and at the Official School of Journalism and his first job was as an editor for the weekly Signo published by the Catholic Action organization. Later he worked at the Europa Press agency and then as a reporter for the magazine La Actualidad Española, later joining the newspaper Informaciones, of which he was editor-in-chief until 1967 when he agreed to join Televisión Española (TVE), where a few months later, in 1968 He is assigned to occupy the TVE correspondent in New York.

On July 19, 1969, he broadcast the event of man's arrival on the moon live from Cape Canaveral for TVE.

Vicenta Pineda Jover, mother of Jesús, died on March 23, 1970. The funeral was held in the Cathedral of La Merced, in Huelva. Jesus sent her a crown of carnations. She could not travel to Spain to attend the funeral because she was in the United States as a correspondent for TVE.

He was also a correspondent for the Mexican television network Televisa, with weekly appearances on its news program 24 Horas, directed by Jacobo Zabludovsky, one of the icons of Mexican television.

He returns to Spain and returns to TVE as director, presenter and interviewer of programs such as "Tribuna Internacional", "De cerca", "Crónica 3", "Su turn", "Por la morning" and others.

He manages to combine his professional activity on television with programs on the radio (Radio Nacional de España (RNE) and then Antena 3 Radio (A3Radio), with titles such as "Palabra de Beatles", made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the song “Love me do”; “La Hora Zero”, “Radio 80 Serie Oro”, and “Viva la gente”.

He returns to TVE and obtains the Víctor de la Serna Prize awarded by the Madrid Press Association; The reappearance on the public network was with the program In the morning, a four-hour program that paved the way for the morning magazines that now dominate the programming of almost all television networks, giving rise to the popularity of professionals. María Teresa Campos, Javier Basilio, Nieves Herrero, Consuelo García Berlanga, Irma Soriano, Miriam Díaz-Aroca, Carlos García-Hirschfeld, and others, who join her team and whom she paves the way for and develops as professionals.

He directs and presents the Telediario de noche, ending his career at RTVE in 1991, going on to present some programs on private networks where in 1992 he was appointed director of Antena 3 Televisión, a network to which he was linked until October 2003. presenting programs with titles such as "Hermida's program", "Hermida's night", "Hermida and company", "H hour", "Without limits" and "The commons".

He joins Castilla-La Mancha TV to present the second edition of News.

He returned to Spanish Television and presented the programs "La imagen de tu vida" and "La tele de tu vida" in 2007.

On July 20, it presents the program "Return to the Moon", commemorating the 40th anniversary of the landing on the Moon.

His last appearance as a presenter and journalist on television took place when Spanish Television (TVE) interviewed King Juan Carlos I in January, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the monarch's birth.

He died in Madrid on May 4, 2015 at the age of 77 due to a cerebral infarction.