Manuel Abud
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| Born | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Dual citizenship Mexican and American |
| Occupation | President and chief executive officer for Azteca America |
| Known for | Former President of Telemundo Station Group, Founder of Mun2 (Now NBC Universo), President of CBS Telenoticias |
Manuel Abud is a Mexican-American media, television and cable executive. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Spanish language American broadcast television network Azteca America, overseeing the U.S.-based broadcast television network and more than 25 TV stations operated by Azteca in the United States.
Azteca America is wholly owned by Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca, and is one of the two largest producers of Spanish language content worldwide.
Manuel Abud was born in Mexico City, and received a bachelor′s degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in 1986. He earned his MBA from Houston Baptist University, Texas, in 1991.
Abud currently serves on the Board of Councilors at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. In addition, he has served on the boards of the Texas Association of Broadcasters, Junior Achievement of Dallas, the YWCA Foundation of Fort Worth, the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, the Ronald McDonald House of Charities of Southern California, and the Pasadena Red Cross.
Abud was Director of Investor Relations at Grupo Televisa where he played a key role in its initial public offering and subsequent listing on the .
As chief financial officer of Grupo Medcom, which owned radio, television and printed media properties, Abud was in charge of more than 50 corporations, and oversaw the operation of a television station in Guadalajara.
He was president of CBS Telenoticias from 1999 to March 2000. There he re-launched the network as Telemundo Internacional, changing it from an all-news to a news and entertainment format, reaching more than 6 million subscribers.
The bilingual cable network for young Hispanics, Mun2, was launched in late 2001. Abud, president, was considered one of the original architects of the channel.
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