Telemundos eager to create content for NBC - 5 Question with President Don Browne

“Two decades ago, Don Browne was the shaggy-haired bureau chief for NBC Network News in Miami, working one of the biggest stories of the 80s: El Salvadors brutal civil war.

At the same time, a cluster of Hispanic journalists in South Florida was putting together a Spanish-language news operation called Telemundo, but they lacked international coverage.

I made them a sort of informal, unauthorized offer to bring in feeds, Browne recalls. “I was trying to help this small band of courageous journalists — José Díz-Balart, Pedro Sevcec and Gus Godoy — who, basically, were dreamers.”

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