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Historic: Spanish Broadcasting System announces "first connecting bridge between Puerto Rico and Florida" with MegaTV Orlando Channel 21 (MegaTVO21)
Historic: Spanish Broadcasting System announces "first connecting bridge between Puerto Rico and Florida" with MegaTV Orlando Channel 21 (MegaTVO21).
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nHistoric: Spanish Broadcasting System announces \"first connecting bridge between Puerto Rico and Florida\" with MegaTV Orlando Channel 21 (MegaTVO21)\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHistoric: Spanish Broadcasting System announces \"first connecting bridge between Puerto Rico and Florida\" with MegaTV Orlando Channel 21 (MegaTVO21)\nThis new liaison channel between the Isla del Encanto and the Sunshine State will not only serve to strengthen the Hispanic legacy between Puerto Ricans on the island and those who live in the tourist city, but will also represent a considerable source of employment at a time when the unemployment rates from the pandemic have affected the television industry\nPR Newswire\nORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 16, 2020\n\n\n\nORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- In the midst of the worst crisis in television history due to the impact of a pandemic (COVID-19), executives of SBS, MegaTV television channel owned and operated by Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc. (SBS) (OTCQX: SBSAA), the leading Minority certified, Hispanic multimedia and entertainment company in the U.S., announces the \"first connecting bridge\" literally, between Puerto Ricans from the Island and from Orlando, with the official launch this September 15 of MegaTV Orlando, Channel 21, (MegaTVO21) under the godfathership of superstar, Jennifer Lopez and actor John Leguizamo, among other Puerto Rican artistic figures.\nPuerto Rico-based television broadcaster MegaTV is expanding its audience reach to Orlando with the launch of affiliate station MegaTV Orlando Channel 21 embarking on a mission to capture the big Puerto Rican community and Hispanics in Central Florida. An estimated 330,000 Puerto Ricans live in Central Florida. With existing MegaTV stations in Puerto Rico and Miami, the channel's programming will now be available in more than a third of Hispanic households in the continental United States.\nWith the theme of \"the bridge that joins Puerto Rico with Orlando, without paying tolls,\" the station will be led by Richy Miran...