WORKING IN TELEVISION

After obtaining my undergraduate degree in Communications (Licenciatura) at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City in 1976 and my Masters Degree also in Communications from the Annenberg School of Communications with a minor from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania I started my 40 year career in Television. First at NJN – PBS in News and Public Affairs and as Executive Producer and Host of IMAGES/IMAGENES, a weekly public affairs bilingual series (March 1979 – September 1987). In 1985 I received an EMMY Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for “Excellence in Journalism – Special Interest Programming, for a 5 part series bilingual series titled “Sembrando el Futuro” (Seeding the Future) in New York City. Then, I joined Telemundo Network as Director of Network Programming (September 1987 – March 1994) based in New York City and later transfered to Miami, Florida. I then moved back to NYC to become the Vice President and Managing Director for USA Network Latin America (launched April, 1994) and Brazil May 1996) from March 1994 – April 2002. I was once again transfered to Miami to open the new headquarters offices in Coral Gable. In December 2002 I returned to Telemundo Network as Senior Vice President of Programming (December 2002 – December 2005). In October 2007 – April 2010) I joined Spanish Broadcasting System in Miami as Senior Vice President of Programming and Development for MEGA-TV. After my 3 year tenure with SBS and at that time in my career I decided to become an entrepreneur and developed a web site combining television and social media in one communityoflights.com The idea was to develop a multimedia process for connecting with subscribers across the world. Community of Lights, LLC was created in 2011 and it continues to the present with a YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@CommunityofLights with over 700 short form published videos. Matzo Tacos web site blog site was developed in April, 2021 based on a book I have been writting for some time also titled “Matzo Tacos.”