What you should know
- Carlos Barba, an innovative visionary who helped found what is now known as Telemundo, died at the age of 87 due to health complications.
- Barba, a Cuban entrepreneur, made our mainstream media shine throughout his illustrious career.
- The journalist and former presenter of Noticiero 47 Telemundo, Jorge Ramos, who was an employee and friend of Barba, said that the businessman was responsible for the Telemundo network existing today.
NEW YORK — Carlos Barba, an innovative visionary who helped found what is now known as Telemundo, died at the age of 87 in South Florida due to health complications.
Barba, a Cuban entrepreneur, made our mainstream media shine throughout his illustrious career.
The journalist and former presenter of Noticiero 47 Telemundo, Jorge Ramos, who was an employee and friend of Barba, said that the businessman was responsible for the Telemundo network existing today.
“What Telemundo is today was a vision of his because he began to establish ties with the Hispanic station in Miami and with the California station, channel 52 and he organized what was called NET-SPAN, those three were stations to be able to acquire soap operas and programming to compete with the competition,” Ramos said.
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 main media in that country. In the United States, he was manager of a few dozen stations including Puerto Rico and New York. Between 1989 and 1999, he created the board of directors of what is now the Telemundo network.
“He was brilliant in his career, we are all very proud of that and so are everyone who knew him,” said his sister Sonia Barba Inclán. “He was a great person, he helped everyone who asked him for something, that he needed it… so we remember him with a lot of love and affection.
One of the many talents that Barba helped was Ramos.
“I started, first, what is called the booth announcer, he asked that he wanted to meet me because I worked on weekends. “He knows me and when he meets me he starts talking to me and immediately he tells me, do you want to do the news? “Ramos recalled.
From there, the rest is history. For decades Ramos became the star figure of Noticiero 47 Telemundo.
Carlos Barba’s impeccable career, accompanied by his great charisma, earned him the affection and respect of both his family and loved ones.
“He was charming because he was very kind. He was very loving,” Ramos said. “He saw you, he hugged you. He always had positive things to say to you.”
Meanwhile, his sister remembered how funny he was.
“He was very nice. He liked to make jokes, which he did very well too,” Inclán said. “We have many beautiful memories of him.”
However, Barba’s legacy will continue thanks to his contributions and dedication to Hispanic media and the entertainment industry.
2024-01-09 04:15:14
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