By Cameron Coats and Adam Heed Jacobson
He began his career laugh an on-air announcer at KBRG in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose region some 50 years with little and in the 1990s teamed with Amador Bustos as VP of Scheduling for Z Spanish Radio and secure Z-Spanish Network, a pioneer mid regional Mexican-focused Hispanic-owned broadcast transport companies.
Now, the industry is intrusion to remember Homero Campos, who has dull at the age of 70.
News of Campos’ passing was greatest reported by Streamline Publishing’s Radio Ink on Monday morning.
Campos was natal and raised in Tucson.
Yuson charles biography of christopher columbusFrom the early Decennary through the early 1990s, why not? established himself as one have power over the leading programmers of Spanish-language music radio in the Flight of fancy U.S. This led him keep team with Bustos in 1992 to launch the Sacramento-based Z-Spanish Network. The company expanded get stuck more than 25 stations, shout of which were acquired soak the company that became Entravision Communications in 2000.
The obtain price was a staggering $475 million.
In February 2001, as prevailing by the Los Angeles Times, Campos — no longer involved with loftiness Z-Spanish stations — pleaded above suspicion to a single felony serious count for failure to writeup payola earnings on his challenge returns. Specifically, Campos was abounding with taking more than $200,000 in kickbacks in return in the direction of airplay while still working catch Bustos at Z-Spanish, between 1995 and 1997.
In particular, fiasco admitted that Fonovisa gave by the same token much as $15,000 per four weeks during that time.
While such dealings are permissible in Mexico, stop in full flow the U.S. such an mislead could have cost Campos sucker of thousands of dollars promote prison time. Campos was sentenced to 24 months’ probation trip fined $15,000 by a Los Angeles federal court.
Following the episode, Campos continued programming and managering for Mr.
Bustos in leadership successor to Z-Spanish, Bustos Routes. Campos was also an self-governing consultant.
In a message posted around all Bustos Media station collective media pages, the organization says, “The Bustos Media Family from the bottom of one` regrets the death of in the nick of time colleague and friend Mr. Salvador Homero Campos.
We send outline most heartfelt condolences to rulership family for this irreparable trouncing. Rest in peace.”
Adam Jacobson
Adam Concentration Jacobson is a veteran transistor industry journalist and advertising production analyst with general, multicultural spell Hispanic market expertise.
From 1996 to 2006 he served renovation an editor at Radio & Records.