Telecomunicaciones Con Un Propósito
RosarioAlbert(v4).qxd 10/19/06 10:28 PM Page 190 CENTRO Journal Volume7 xv1ii Number ii fall 2006 Telecomunicaciones con un propósito LUIS ROSARIO ALBERT ABSTRACT “Telecomunicaciones con un propósito” (“Telecommunications with a Purpose”) is a research paper that looks at the origins and development of Public Communications in Puerto Rico from 1942 to 1961. The creation of Puerto Rico’s Communications Authority in 1942—while Rexford Tugwell served as Designated Governor and Luis Muñoz Marín as President of the Senate in Puerto Rico—is the starting point for examining the Puerto Rican government’s plans for the development of the telegraph, telephone, radio and public television. This project led, in 1961, to the creation of WIPM-TV, Channel 3, as part of the Department of Public Instruction’s Radio and Television Service. This essay provides a reappraisal of the work of Rafael Delgado Márquez, who, as first Administrator of Puerto Rico’s Communications Authority, first General Manager of WKAQ-TVand first General Administrator of WIPR-TV, emerges as the most influencial figure in the development of Public Telecommunications in Puerto Rico. [Key words: Puerto Rico; Public television; Broadcasting; Luis Muñoz Marín; Modernization; Development] Luis Muñoz Marín durante su primer mensaje transmitido por la WIPR-TV, el 8 de enero de 1958. Colección Rafael Delgado Márquez, Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín. Reproducida con el permiso de la Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín. [ 191 ] RosarioAlbert(v4).qxd 10/19/06 10:28 PM Page 192 prominente en los planes de modernización de las sociedades débiles, que, junto a las élites post-coloniales, se ven en el espejo propio, pero también en el espejo del vecino, nos sirve para contextualizar y comprender, a pesar de la proximidad del tiempo, el “retraso” de entonces y el esfuerzo político, económico y, particularmente, cultural por superar el mismo.
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