Jose Uzal

About

Born in Cuba, Uzal is a highly sought-after figure in Hispanic community events, business events, and debates as his powerful presence and influence have a vast reach. Under his leadership as chief editor, el Latino Semanal has grown to be the longest-running and most widely circulated Spanish-language weekly in the County for more than eight years. The broadsheet publication is now on its 43th year of continuous publication in DMA38. It is the first Hispanic publication to add digital distribution of its weekly printed edition. www.ellatinodigital.com Until December of 2013 Uzal was Vice President and General Manager of WBWP Mundo Fox 57 DLP, Uzal was central to the station’s impressive growth over the last year. As the first local Spanish TV station DMA 38.Tthe station doubled and tripled the time period ratings among viewers in the 18-49 demographic as well as the 25-54 demographic. This massive growth in viewer ship has propelled the station to levels alongside market heavyweights WLTV Univision 23 and WSCV Telemundo. He is back at El Latino Semanal as their National Sales Manager.Under his direction, the newspaper added a strong digital component to distribute its print edition digitally and to facilitate the placing of advertising via the web. (www.ellatinodigital.com) The site receives over 100K unique visitors per month and more than 1 million hits monthly. Under Uzal's guidance El Latino Semanal has increased its relevance to readers and advertisers buy using technology to create a new norm.