Today’s New York Times word of the day is SPEAK according to my chief executive officer who likes word games crossword puzzles.
With that in mind allow Neto to tell a story about one of the many professional experiences I had back in the late 80s - I watch the tube and sometimes it brings back memories about always speaking up for our freedoms and leading by example.
After working for NBC for about a decade, there was a labor dispute with management that caused a major strike.
At the time, I was being courted by a smaller less known media company then known as SIN, which wanted to make a name for themselves in the US. They were big in Mexico, however.
As Univision executive producer my job was to rebrand and modernize the network news division therefore, I went on to train my new anchors Maria Elena, Salinas, and Jorge Ramos. https://www.univision.com/temas/1990-1999
Fast forward to today and our kids have somewhat followed in our footsteps. Jorge’s daughter is an author and news trailblazer https://youtu.be/re8buwoE-Yo?si=x6EOy0MME2jNKi6p
My daughter is also an amazing author, an entertainer, and a fabulous designer on CBS's Secret Celebrity Renovation. SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION is a series giving celebrities a chance to gift a surprise home renovation to a person who helped guide them to success. Secret Celebrity Renovation with multiple seasons. Here is a sample https://www.cbs.com/shows/secret-celebrity-renovation/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13836422/
Maris Elena Salinas's son is an amazing and accomplished ABC correspondent https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/victor-oquendo-official-biography/story?…
With more than 30 years on TV, Maria Elena Salinas is the longest running female news anchor on U.S. television, and is the first Latina to receive a Lifetime Achievement Emmy. Dubbed the “Voice of Hispanic America” by The New York Times, Salinas is a figurehead for the Latino community. She announced her departure from her current role at Univison saying, “I am grateful for having had the privilege to inform and empower the Latino community through the work my colleagues and I do with such passion.” Thanking her Latino audience she said, “as long as I have a voice, I will always use it to speak on their behalf.” She has always used her platform to cover issues that affect Latinos today, including the plight of unaccompanied immigrant children, as well as being an active philanthropist, working to increase voter registration in the Latino community and helping Latino youth into journalism.
A few years ago, I ran into Maria Elena Salinas at a journalism convention and I have this image to share,
Time flies when you’re having fun and so it goes.