Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (2 March 1895, Tampico, Tamaulipas – 23 September 1972, Houston) was a Mexican businessman who built an entertainment conglomerate, Telesistema Mexicano (now Televisa).
[citation needed] In 1923, Azcárraga obtained a license to distribute radios from the Victor Talking Machine Company.
Around the same time his brother Raúl Azcárraga Vidaurreta had created a radio station with Mexico City's newspaper El Universal.
While working at the "Mexico Music" division of RCA) he became more interested in the radio broadcasting industry.
[citation needed] Azcárraga Vidaurreta established Estudios Churubusco in the 1940s and created the first TV station in Mexico, Channel 2, in 1951.