From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia El Mundo (Puerto Rico)
El Mundo (Puerto Rico)
El Mundo "El Mundo" acquired WKAQ AM, the oldest radio station
Type Daily newspaper on the island, and later added WKAQ-TV channel 2. While
El Mundo also established WKAQ-FM, it is unknown if the
Format Broadsheet
current station at 104.7 MHz was part of the operation
Owner Angel Ramos in the Ramos days. The paper’s radio operations were
owned by "El Mundo Broadcasting", and the television
Founded 1919
station was owned by Telemundo; the Telemundo name
Language Spanish would later be used by a mainland group of stations for
the namesake Telemundo network now owned by NBC
El Mundo founded in 1919, was a Puerto Rican newspaper.
Mundo, Universal, which also owns WKAQ-TV.
Angel Ramos died in 1960. Upon his death, wife - Ar-
History gentina S. Hills - took over the reins of Ramos’ enterprise.
El Mundo was founded in 1919 by Romualdo Real.[1]
In 1929, former corrector-turned-administrator An- Demise
gel Ramos and journalist José Coll Vidal, bought the El Mundo closed in 1986, following an extremely con-
newspaper when Real retired. In 1946 Ramos was the sole tentious mid seventies labor strike. Printing plates were
owner of the newspaper. shipped out from the El Mundo building by helicopter.
A chopper was destroyed by a pipe bomb and people in
Acquisitions the air and on the ground were killed. El Mundo returned
briefly during the late 1980s, but soon closed.
Contributors
• Hector Campos-Parsi
• Eliseo Combas Guerra-reporter and political
columnist
• Francisco Hernández Negrón-sportswriter
• Alex W. Maldonado-editor
• Kenneth McClintock-columnist
• Mayra Montero-editorial page editor
• Luis Pales Matos
• Rafael Pont Flores-sportswriter
• Miguel Santín-political columnist
References
[1] Press Reference. PUERTO RICO.
A partly oxidized "El Mundo" newspaper delivery box in Ponce,
Puerto Rico
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