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De León promoted to regional VP

October 30, 2009 by Veronica Villafañe

Araceli de León, who was named President and General Manager of Telemundo stations KTAZ-39 and KHRR-40 in Phoenix and Tucson in May of 2008, has been handed the reins of 2 more stations.

Promoted to Regional Vice President and General Manager, she will now also oversee sales, news, programming, marketing and operations of KBLR-40 in Las Vegas and KDEN-25 in Denver.

Araceli originally joined the Telemundo Arizona station as VP and GM from February 2003 to January 2005. She spent 2 years in Los Angeles, as VP and GM of KWHY-22, but returned to Phoenix in 2007.

Before joining Telemundo, she was GM of KORO-28, the Univision station in Corpus Christi. Prior to that she was Assistant News Director at KENS-5, the CBS affiliate in San Antonio.

Araceli began her career in 1978 at KENS in the Engineering department. She would later be recruited as Associate News Producer in NYC.

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Araceli de Leon, Telemundo

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Most recently, a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

She is also a Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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