Carlos Barba, a television pioneer who helped found what is now known as Telemundo, died at the age of 87 in South Florida due to health complications over the weekend.
Barba, an entrepreneur born in Cuba, carved out an illustrious career in the world of media and communications that spanned decades. Jorge Ramos, a journalist and former anchor of Noticiero 47 Telemundo, who was an employee and friend of Barba, said that the businessman was responsible for the Telemundo network existing today.
Barba made history in 1955 when he conducted the first live broadcast between the United States and Cuba. In 1961 he left Havana for Venezuela and worked in the media in that country. In the United States, he was manager of a few dozen stations including in Puerto Rico and New York. Between 1989 and 1991, he created the board of directors of what is now the Telemundo network.
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