- Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta
Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta or Emilio Azcárraga Sr. (
March 2 1895 ,Tampico Tamaulipas – 1973,Mexico City ) was a Mexican businessman son of Basque immigrantsMariano Azcárraga and Emilia Vidaurreta.He studied primary education in Piedras Negras,
Coahuila , middle school inSan Antonio ,Texas , and high school in Austin. At the age of 17 he was employed at a shoe store while he studied trade and economics by night. He obtained distribution rights for a shoe store inBoston and at the age of 23 he created the car distribution company "Azcárraga & Copland".Emilio married Laura Milmo Hickman (daughter of an Englishman, Patricio Milmo Vidaurri, and granddaughter of Patricio Milmo O'Dowd, major stockholder of
Milmo National Bank of Laredo) and they had three children: Emilio, Laura, and Carmela. In 1899 the company "Patricio Milmo and Sons" was created to operate as a bank and to invest in actitivites such as railroad and mines. After theMexican Revolution the company focused on safer investments such as the new radio industry.Radio broadcasting industry
In 1923 Azcárraga obtained a license to distribute radios from
Victor Talking Machine . While working at the "Mexico Music" division ofRadio Corporation of America (RCA) he became more interest in the radio broadcasting industry. His brother Raúl received technical instruction to operate radio broadcasting stations under the tutelage of the Americancolonel Sandal S. Hodges .On
March 19 1930 the radio stationXET-AM was founded inMonterrey . And onSeptember 18 Azcárraga created theXEW-AM withMexico Music Corporation as major stockholder. The station was also part of theNational Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) division of RCA.Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta married Laura Milmo Hickman, daughter of Patricio Milmo Vidaurri and Laura Hickman Morales. Patricio Milmo Vidaurri was the son of Irish Banker Patricio Milmo O'Dowd and Pudenciana Vidaurri Vidaurri- she was the daughter of Don Santiago Vidaurri and Dona Juana Maria Vidaurri Borrego. All this can be found in www.somosprimos.com in their May issue of 2006 and in a recent issue in July 2006.
Television industry
He built
Churubusco Studios in the 1940s and created the first TV station in Mexico, Channel 2, in 1951. Emilio became the first president of Telesistemas Mexicanos in 1955. His entertainment conglomerate was comprised of 92 different business units by 1969. He established Televisa, a production company for hisTV station s;Televisa , S.A., in 1973. He died the same year.ee also
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Azcárraga family External links
*es icon [http://www.mexicanadecomunicacion.com.mx/Tables/FMB/foromex/huella.html Biography] at the
Revista Mexicana de Comunicación of theManuel Buendía Foundation.
*es icon [http://www.salondelempresario.com/galardonados_93_azcarraga.html Biography] at theSalón del Empresario en México ("Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in Mexico").
*es icon [http://www.wradio.com.mx/historia.asp History] of theXEW .
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