Chávez, Castellano is designated by the plant to take the lead, personally, several opinion programs alone. He begins with the Saturday show "Bajo la Lupa" and following the exit of journalist Ernesto Villegas from the television station and an end of the show "En Confianza", he is invited to take the morning slot with the program he christened "Despertó Venezuela" which was aired from Monday to Friday for 3 years. During an official visit to Russia by then president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frias described the program as dynamic and sent greetings to the moderator. Through this space paraded the most important political, cultural, and sports spokesmen of the official sector and became a national reference. In parallel, Castellano wrote articles as collaborator for the newspapers Ultimas Noticias and Diario VEA. Throughout his career he produced and hosted several radio programs among which are "Para Estar Informados" which was broadcast on Circuit Radio Continent from 2005 to 2012. In that same radio broadcast led "Soga y Tranquero" (2011) along with journalist and Venezuelan folk music singer Fabiana Ochoa. In the late CNB Circuit he presented "A Dos Voces" (2007) together with journalist Beatriz Adrián (current Caracol News correspondent in Venezuela). Successively, "Zero Politics" (2008) in the Radial Circuito Triple F, alongside journalist Mayerling Camacho Pérez (Current host of El Noticiero Venevision) and "Zona de Debate" (2010) the latter aired nationally for a year by fourteen stations of Radio Union Circuit and conducted with his sister Laura Castellanos. The program was national reference and the first and only of Castellanos brothers together. On 1 May 2011, the show "Despertó Venezuela" conducted by Castellano was taken off the air as part of the restructuring of the news channel's programming. Until 12 February 2012, he served as host of the meridian news broadcast "La Noticia", and, due to the lack of professional proposals on behalf of the plant, on 21 May 2013 he definitively resigned Venezolana de Television, as outlined by the press "for professional and ethical reasons." Book on performing arts in Venezuela On 19 December 2015, Daniel Castellano named his first book of 176 pages under the title "The Nutcracker of Vicente Nebreda and the Teresa Carreño Theater. Published by the Teatro Teresa Carreño Foundation. It is the first book in Venezuela written about the production process of a national ballet. The publication features the prologue of the Venezuelan Prima Ballerina