Joaquin F. Blaya is a member of the United State’s Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees US government run broadcasting networks like Voice of America and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, which includes Al Hurra Television. Al Hurra (meaning “the free one”) broadcasts to 22 countries in the Middle East, Iraq and Europes. Governor Blaya had a principal role in developing Al Hurra’s “Al Youm” (meaning “today”), a daily three-hour news and “infotainment” program broadcasting live from five cities simultaneously: Dubai, Jerusalem, Beirut, Cairo and Washington D.C. The US government has funded the Middle East Broadcasting Network with around half a billion dollars since its launch in 2004, and requested $113 million from the US congress in the 2010 fiscal year budget. Governor Blaya previously served as chairman of Radio Unica, a Spanish-language radio network, and as CEO of the Telemundo Group, Inc., the US’ second-largest Spanish-language television network. He spoke
