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Univision Radio Promotes Mary McEvilly-Hernandez to Vice President/General Manager of Phoenix Radio Stations.


PHOENIX -- Univision Radio Univision Radio is the radio division of media giant Univision. The company was formerly known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. It is the eighth largest radio company in the United States, and it specializes in Spanish language radio formats.  today announced the promotion of Mary McEvilly-Hernandez to Vice President/General Manager of the company's stations in Phoenix, Arizona Phoenix /ˈfiːˌnɪks/ (English: Phoenix, Navajo: Hoozdo, lit. "the place is hot", Western Apache: Fiinigis) is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. , KHOT-FM, KHOV-FM, KKMR-FM, KMRR-FM, and KOMR-FM. McEvilly-Hernandez was previously Director of Sales for Univision Radio's Chicago radio stations.

"We are proud to have Mary lead our operations in Phoenix," commented Gary Stone, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
 of Univision Radio. "Mary has demonstrated very strong leadership and management skills throughout her many years at our Chicago stations, and I'm confident that she will be a tremendous leader for our very successful Phoenix market," added Stone.

Commenting on her role McEvilly-Hernandez said, "I am grateful for the opportunity to work with such a capable and committed team. Phoenix is a remarkable market offering us terrific growth potential."

With over 23 years of broadcasting experience, McEvilly-Hernandez received her degree from Northeastern Illinois University Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in the North Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. Northeastern Illinois University serves commuter students in the Chicago metropolitan area.  and studied Spanish at the Instituto Cuauhnahuac in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico. Prior to returning to HBC HBC

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, Univision Radio's predecessor, in 2000, McEvilly-Hernandez was General Manager of WTAQ Radio, a Lotus station, for five years. Prior to Lotus, she worked in various capacities in sales, promotions and traffic at Excl Communications EXCL Communications was a Spanish-language broadcasting company founded in 1989 by Athena and Christopher Marks.[1] It acquired its first radio stations, San Jose, California's KBRG and KLOK-AM, in 1992. , Telemundo Chicago, CID Cid or Cid Campeador (sĭd, Span. thēth kämpāäthōr`) [Span.,=lord conqueror], d. 1099, Spanish soldier and national hero, whose real name was Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar.  Broadcasting and at HBC's WOJO, where she began her broadcasting career.

Univision Communications Inc. is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 98% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 80% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 24 Univision Network television stations and 1 non-Univision television station; TeleFutura Television Group, which owns and operates 31 TeleFutura Network television stations; Galavision, the country's leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 68 radio stations in 17 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 4 stations in Puerto Rico; Univision Music Group The Univision Music Group Is the #1 Latin music company in the U.S. with approximately 45% market share. Founded in April 2001 with a vision of releasing and marketing the best of every genre of Latin music, the Univision Music Group now includes three record labels: Univision , which includes Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, and a 50% interest in Mexico-based Disa Records labels as well as Fonomusic and America Musical Publishing companies; and Univision Online, the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S. located at www.univision.com. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa's pay television channels in the U.S., and a non-voting 27% interest in Entravision Communications Corporation, a public Spanish-language media company. Univision Communications is headquartered in Los Angeles with television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.

For more information, please visit www.univision.net.
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