Spanish Broadcasting System

Pablo Raúl Alarcón Sr., Chairman Emeritus and Director Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) is an American media company specializing in Spanish-speaking audiences.

SBS targets the U.S. Hispanic audience in nine geographic regions: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Puerto Rico, Orlando, Tampa, and Houston.

He subsequently owned a recording studio and advertising agency before borrowing $3.5 million USD to purchase the first SBS radio station, WSKQ-AM (La Super 1380) in 1983 with his son, Raúl Alarcón Jr. Alarcón Sr. would serve as SBS Chairman of the board of directors, while his son would serve as an account executive in the sales department.

It also diversified by purchasing 80 percent of JuJu Media, the operator of the Spanish-English Web site LaMusica.com, which offered Latin music, entertainment, news, and culture.

Later that year, at the insistence of Alarcón Jr., SBS launched KZAB-FM (La Sabrosa 93.5), targeting the Central American population in Los Angeles.

[4] On June 3, 2011, the heavily Cuban-American community of Union City, New Jersey honored Alarcón Sr. with a star on the Walk of Fame at Celia Cruz Plaza.

[11] In addition to individual radio station websites, SBS operates www.lamusica.com and www.mega.tv, all providing bilingual Spanish-English content about Latin music, entertainment and news.

Mega TV was launched on March 1, 2006 and operates as a Spanish-language entertainment station in South Florida, Puerto Rico and Las Vegas.

Arbitron (now known as Nielsen Audio) sued SBS in order to force it to reinstall encoders used for the Portable People Meter system of audience measurement.

Current SBS President and CEO Raúl Alarcón Jr.
In 2011 Union City, New Jersey honored Pablo Raúl Alarcón with a star on the Walk of Fame at Celia Cruz Plaza.