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Article: Channel changer: Entravision co-founder Walter Ulloa has grown his TV-radio empire with an accent on Spanish-language media.(PEOPLE)(Interview)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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THE seeds of Walter Ulloa's Spanish-language media empire were planted early. As a child growing up in Brawley, he would spend weekends at his grandparents' ranch, watching Mexican TV broadcast from across the border. To this day, he still recalls it fondly: "It was Channel 3, out of Mexicali. " He grew up to become cofounder and chief executive of Entravision Communications Corp., a publicly traded media company based in Santa Monica. Entravision owns or operates 51 TV and 48 radio stations across the country, the majority of which have Spanish-language programming. Before he built Entravision into a nationwide network, Ulloa was a law student and an editorial writer at ...