Education
He studied primary education in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, middle school in San Antonio, Texas, and high school in Austin. Aged 17, he was employed at a shoe store while he studied trade and economics by night.
He studied primary education in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, middle school in San Antonio, Texas, and high school in Austin. Aged 17, he was employed at a shoe store while he studied trade and economics by night.
He obtained distribution rights for a shoe store in Boston and, at age 23, he created the car distribution company, Azcárraga & Copland. In 1923 Azcárraga obtained a license to distribute radios from the Victor Talking Machine Company. While working at the "Mexico Music" division of Radio Corporation of America) he became more interested in the radio broadcasting industry.
On 19 March 1930 the radio station XET-Department of Administration and Management was founded in Monterrey.
And on September 18 Azcárraga created the XEW-Department of Administration and Management with Mexico Music Corporation as major stockholder. The station was also part of the National Broadcasting Company division of Radio Corporation of America.
Azcárraga Vidaurreta established Estudios Churubusco in the 1940s and created the first television station in Mexico, Channel 2, in 1951.
He became the first president of Telesistemas Mexicanos in 1955. His entertainment conglomerate was composed of 92 different business units by 1969.
He died on 23 September 1972, before establishment of Televisa, South America, a television production company on 1 January 1973.
Emilio Azcárraga and Laura Milmo had three children: Emilio, Laura, and Carmela. After the Mexican Revolution the company focused on safer investments, like the then-recently-developing radio industry.