Raul Alarcon Sr. passes ……
May 12, 2008
Raul Alarcon Sr., founder and Director Emeritus of Spanish Broadcasting System, has died.
Alarcon, a pioneer in Spanish-language broadcasting, left Cuba, and the radio company he had founded there, following Fidel Castro’s rise to power. He re-established his radio career in the United States, and in 1983, he purchased his first radio station.
Twenty-five years later, SBS — now headed by Alarcon’s son, company Chairman/President/CEO Raul Alarcon Jr. — owns 21 radio stations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Puerto Rico, San Francisco, and Chicago and is one of the largest and best-known broadcasting companies in America. Alarcon served as President of the board of directors of SBS until November 1999.
