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Héctor Marcano
Héctor Marcano (born November 3, 1956) is a Puerto Rican producer, host, actor, and comedian. Marcano is also an owner of low-power television station WWXY-LD Channel 17. Hector Marcano currently serves as Vice President of Hispanic Operations East, for iHeartMedia. Marcano works with iHeartMedia's Hispanic radio stations, with a special focus in the Miami, Chicago, Orlando, and Atlanta markets. Early years Héctor Marcano was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Career Marcano's career took off after Luis Vigoreaux's death. He started hosting ''A Millón'', a Puerto Rican game show, along with Sonia Noemí and Rafael José. The show was rated the number one television game show for several years. In 1987, alongside '' El Gangster'' Marcano performed as host of Super Siete's ''La Hora de Oro''. In the same year, Marcano had a highly publicized wedding to Ivette Rivera-Lisojo. The wedding was shown live on Puerto Rican television. Vea, a local show biz magazine, produced a ''w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce ( , , ) is a city and a Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. The most populated city outside the San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692Some publications/reporters have erroneously stated Ponce's date of founding as December 12, 1692 (see, for example, Jose Fernandez-Colon, The Associated Press, at "Noticias Online" on January 24, 2009, a''Noticias Puerto Rico.''Accessed 23 March 2019.) Another incorrect date sometimes found is September 12, 1692 (See, for example, Jorge L. Perez (El Nuevo Dia) and Jorge Figueroa (Ponce Municipal Historian), a''Historic Buildings and Structures in Ponce, Puerto Rico.'' at the text accompanying Drawing #20, titled "Tumba de los Bomberos". Puerto Rico Historic Buildings Drawings Society. 2019. Accessed 4 February 2019. See als''Mapa de Municipios y Barrios: Ponce, Memoria Numero 27.'' Gobierno del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico. Junta de Planifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Siete
WSTE-DT (channel 7), branded on air as Teleisla, is a Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-language independent television station licensed to Ponce, Puerto Rico. Owned by TelevisaUnivision, the station maintains studios on Calle Carazo in Guaynabo. To provide island-wide coverage, WSTE maintains a network of five transmitter sites, located at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce, at Cerro La Marquesa in Aguas Buenas, at Cerro Canta Gallo in Aguada, Puerto Rico, Aguada, on Puerto Rico Highway 22, Highway 22 in Arecibo, and at the Monte del Estado in San Germán. History WRIK-TV The station first signed on as WRIK-TV on February 2, 1958, after receiving the FCC permit to go on the air on channel 7.''PUERTO RICO''. Museum of Broadcast Communications. Retrieved December 10, 2011. It was the first television st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avelino Muñoz Stevenson
Avelino Muñoz Stevenson (November 23, 1956 at San Juan, Puerto Rico – June 21, 2019 at Hato Rey, Puerto Rico) was a Puerto Rican television sportscaster, newspaper reporter, actor, comedian, show host, emcee, television producer and musical promoter of Panamanian descent. He was, for many years, the main sportscaster and sports news director of Puerto Rico's channel 6's television news shows. Muňoz Stevenson was also the leader of the "Cabecitas Rapadas" foundation, which aims at helping cancer patients and their families with among other things, pharmacy, transportation and treatment costs. Biography Muňoz Stevenson was the son of the famed Panamanian musician Avelino Muñoz. He began his professional life at the age of 16, when he started out as a news reporter for one of the then three newspapers with a national reach in Puerto Rico, El Dia' Soon after, he moved on to working on Puerto Rican television and became friends with, among others, the former Baloncesto Superio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTCV
WTCV (channel 18) is a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, serving as the U.S. territory's outlet for the Spanish-language network Mega TV. Owned and operated by Spanish Broadcasting System, it is sister to radio stations WZNT (93.7 FM), WZMT (93.3 FM), WODA (94.7 FM), WNOD (94.1 FM), W276AI (103.1 FM), WRXD (96.5 FM), WNVI (1040 AM), W233CW (94.5 FM), W238CR (95.5 FM), WIOB (97.5 FM), WMEG (106.9 FM) and WEGM (95.1 FM). WTCV shares studios with independent station WJPX (channel 24, owned by América-CV Station Group) at the Amelia Industrial Park in Guaynabo; the two stations share transmitter facilities at Barrio Cubuy in Canovanas. WTCV operates two satellite stations: WVEO (channel 17) in Aguadilla, with transmitter on Cerro Canto Gallo in Aguada, and WVOZ-TV (channel 36) in Ponce, with transmitter on Sec Servo Paso in Peñuelas. History During the 1980s and early 1990s, WTCV was known as WSJU (for San Juan) and was an NBC affiliate, one of three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mega TV (American TV Network)
Mega TV is an American free-to-air television network based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that is owned by Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS). It was launched in 2006. The network's flagship is WSBS-TV, a television station licensed to Key West, Florida, with studios also in Miami. In 2023, SBS said it would sell Mega TV to Voz Media, a conservative Spanish-language news media firm, but the deal fell through and SBS said it would seek another buyer. History Mega TV was launched on March 1, 2006. Its original slate of programming includes productions aimed to young Hispanic viewers. In early 2007, the station cut 55 employees to save production costs. A vast majority of locally produced programs such as ''Desvelados'', ''Xpediente'', ''El Noticero'', ''El Vacilon'', ''Entre Fichas'', and ''Mega Especiales'', ''Puerta Astral'' ("''Star Port''") and ''Agenda del Inmigrante'' were supposedly placed on hiatus. The channel is scheduled for a summer run with changes in hosts and ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes telenovelas and other drama series, sports, sitcoms, reality and variety series, news programming, and imported Spanish-language feature films. Univision is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and has its major studios, production facilities, and business operations based in Doral, Florida (near Miami). Univision is available on pay television providers throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Latin American communities. Most of these stations air full local newscasts and other local programming in addition to network shows; in major markets such as Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City, the local newscasts carried by the network's owned-and-operated st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tele-Once
WLII-DT (channel 11), branded on-air as , is a television station licensed to Caguas, Puerto Rico, serving the Territories of the United States#Permanently inhabited territories, U.S. territory as an affiliate of Univision and UniMás. Owned by Liberman Media Group, the station maintains studio facilities on Calle Carazo in Guaynabo, with additional studios at The Mall of San Juan. Its transmitter is located near the List of Puerto Rico state forests, Bosque Estatal de Carite mountain reserve. TeleOnce operates two Broadcast relay station#Satellite stations, satellite stations: WSUR-DT (channel 9) in Ponce, Puerto Rico, Ponce and WOLE-DT (channel 12) in Aguadilla. History Telecadena Perez-Perry (1960–1981) In 1960, Rafael Perez Perry received authorization from the government to start WKBM-TV on May 23, broadcasting on channel 11, as part of his new '' chain of television stations. Some of the shows that WKBM-TV aired during these years included: * and with Myrta Silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
