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SAN ANTONIO — Emilio Nicolas Sr., one of the founding pioneers of Spanish-language television in the United States, died on Saturday at his home in San Antonio. A trailblazer in the community ...
Who was the Native American mystery woman of San Nicolas Island? Her castaway tale captured 19th-century imaginations and inspired the novel 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.' Scholars today are ...
Emilio Nicolás Sr., a native of Mexico who helped revolutionize Spanish-language television in the United States and was involved in creating the network that became Univision, has died at his ...
Mexican Emilio Nicolás Sr., who pioneered Spanish-language television in the United States and helped develop the network that later became Univision, died at his home in San Antonio, Texas. He ...
Emilio Nicolas Sr., 88, who took a financially struggling Spanish-language television station in San Antonio and helped build it into a cornerstone of the powerhouse network that is now Univision ...
Raoul Cortez (center) with grandchildren Miriam Nicolas Relyea and Emilio Nicolas Jr. in 1955. That year, Cortez launched KCOR-TV in San Antonio, the first Spanish language TV station in the ...
In oral tradition, the devotion to San Nicolas allegedly started when a Chinese infidel on board his boat in the Pasig River was saved from a cayman after invoking the help of the saint.
Irma Alicia Cortez Nicolas formed a media empire with her husband Emilio Nicolas and launched Univision, which debuted as the fourth major media network in the U.S., following NBC, CBS and ABC.
In his study on the built environment of the area, heritage advocate Stephen Pamorada documented Spanish period to American-era heritage structures in San Nicolas which include foundries ...
In the Philippines, Pan de San Nicolas cookies are said to have healing powers. Learn the history of the cookies and why they're known as a cure-all.
Blazers forward Nicolas Batum has apologized for his role in a team motivational message that included an inflammatory remark about Spanish players, which was perceived as a shot at Marc Gasol.