According to Radio Ink, Cecil Heftel, the pioneering founder of Heftel Broadcasting — which in 1999 became Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. — died of natural causes yesterday in San Diego. An interesting footnote is that Cecil Heftel is also credited for paying the highest amount for any AM / FM radio properties regardless of language at the time when he purchased KTNQ-AM/KLVE-FM the top Spanish language station in Los Angeles or a reported $40 million, which were owned and operated by the Liberman brothers.
