Manuel Delgado Parker
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| Manuel Delgado Parker | |
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| File:Manuel Delgado Parker RPP.jpg | |
| Born | Manuel Delagdo Parker November 18, 1935 Lima, Peru |
| Occupation | Media tycoon |
| Known for | Founder of Grupo RPP |
| Home town | Lima |
| Spouse(s) | Frieda Nachtigall Valderrama |
Manuel Delgado Parker (born Lima, November 18, 1935) is a Peruvian entrepreneur who founded the media conglomerate Grupo RPP.
Biography
Manuel is the fifth son of businessman Peruvian Genaro Delgado Brandt and Rachel Parker Murguía.
He married Frieda Nachtigall Valderrama in the year 1960, who had her following children: Frida, Ursula, Manuel, Claudia, Hugo and Natalia Delgado Nachtigall.[1]
Business activity
He joined Radio Panamericana in the fifties, as part of the administration of the station founded by his father at the beginning of the fifties.
Then he founded Radio Programas del Peru, a radio station dedicated to the transmission of radio drama programs, services and councils nationwide.
He held management Panamericana Televisión of 1968 to 1971, when the military government took control of the media. In the following years he lived in Buenos Aires, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles, California.
He returned from the US in 1979 and assumed leadership of Radio Programas del Perú as such would release the information center, space would serve to reach more people through the dissemination of news and that still characterizes to the station.
In 1990 founded the Society Latin America Broadcasting made up of the main chains of radio of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela Bolivia and Argentina .
Was responsible for the direction of Panamericana Televisión in the nineties. He remained as the main shareholder of the channel until it sold its shares to boost the formation of RPP Group, a company that currently manages. In addition to founding with his brother Hector Delgado Parker in US, the international chain of Peruvian television Sur Perú to the Peruvian community in the country.
