Brief History of Grupo Televisa

The initiator of what we know today as Televisa, Don Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, was born in 1895 in the city of Tampico, began with radio station XEW-AM during the 1930s, by the following decade it was introduced into the burgeoning industry cinematographic. In 1951, he founded the XEW-TV channel that is channel 2, 5 years later with the merger of channel 2, 4 and 5 he created "Telesistema Mexicano". He died in 1972 inheriting his son Emilio Azcárraga Milmo.
Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, born in San Antonio, Texas in 1930, was the owner of Univisión and president of Galavisión, he was the one who founded officially “Televisa” as a result of a merger of “Telesistema Mexicano” with “La Televisión Independiente de México”, leaving the channels 2,4,5 and 8. He died in 1997 from pancreatic cancer, inheriting his then 29-year-old son, Emilio Azcárraga Jean.
Emilio Azcárraga Jean, born in Mexico City in 1968, studied Industrial Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and Business Administration at IPADE, before reaching the position of Chairman of the board of directors of Grupo Televisa, which he holds Currently, he served as: Director of Operations for Canal 12 de Tijuana, Corporate Vice President of Programming and Executive Vice President of Operations.