Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta
Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (born March 2, 1895 in Tampico , † September 23, 1972 in Houston , Texas , USA ) was a Mexican media entrepreneur.
The son of Basque immigrants studied trade and economics at night school after attending school and also worked in a shoe shop. He then acquired the distribution rights of a Boston shoe shop and at the age of twenty-three founded the company Azcárraga y Copland as a seller of Ford automobiles . In the early 1920s he married the banker's daughter Laura Milmo .
In 1923 Azcárraga acquired a license as a distributor for the Victor Talking Machine Company , and two years later he worked for The Mexico Music , a subsidiary of Radio Corporation of America . In 1930 he founded the broadcasters XET and XEW; the latter was dedicated to the spread of Latin American music. With the participation of the Columbia Broadcasting System , the station XEQ was created in 1938, which he expanded into a chain of 16 stations over the next seven years.
At the request of President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río , Azcárraga founded the Cámara Nacional de la Industria de la Radiodifusión , of which he was President. With other Latin American broadcasters, he founded the Asociación Interamericana de Radiodifusión . In order to exercise the rights of Mexican composers abroad, he also founded Promotora Hispanoamericana de Música SA . In addition to Clemente Serna Martínez , he was the majority shareholder of Radio Programas de México, founded in 1941 .
Azcárraga was also interested in television, and in 1951 he acquired the license for XEW TV Canal 2 . In 1955, the station was merged with Romulo O'Farrill Silvas Canal 4 and Guillermo González Camarenas Canal 5 to form the Telesistema Mexicano . Azcárraga and O'Farrill became President and Vice President, respectively, of the new company, their sons Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and Rómulo O'Farrill Jr. managers.
In the following years, Azcárraga expanded in the southern United States and founded, among other things, the channels KMEX in Los Angeles and KWEX in San Antonio, Texas. In 1969 he received the provisional license for the cable television broadcaster Cablevision , most recently he was involved in the satellite television broadcaster Televisión Via Satélite (Televisa). In 1972 Azcárraga died of cancer.
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| SURNAME | Azcárraga Vidaurreta, Emilio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican media entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tampico |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd September 1972 |
| Place of death | Houston |