Víctor J. Montilla

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Víctor J. Montilla

Born	May 26, 1970
Education	B.A. (1992) Communications
Alma mater	Loyola University New Orleans
Title	President of the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Website http://www.victormontilla.com

Víctor J. Montilla is a Puerto Rican businessman who is President of the Puerto Rico Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). He received his B.A. in Communications in 1992 from Loyola University New Orleans.^[1] Montilla was the first Puerto Rican recipient of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Governor's Award.^[2]

1 Biography
2 External links
3 References

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Víctor Montilla Torres was born on May 26, 1970. He graduated from high school in 1998 from Colegio Maristas, in Guaynabo.^{[citation needed]} In 1992 he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts, with a concentration in production, from Loyola University New Orleans.

[edit] Career as television producer

From 1990 on, Montilla participated in several internships: as Public Relations Assistant for Triple S; as floor director for NBC Sports in New Orleans; as editor at Guastella Films; and as production assistant at Cordero Teleproducciones, among others. By 1992 he had established himself back in Puerto Rico and had begun his career, working at Cordero Teleproducciones with Paquito Cordero, one of the most important producers in Puerto Rico. In 2000, Montilla founded Montilla Television Group, where he created and produced the first animated situation comedy, Los del Barrio. The show attracted the attention and support of the advertising industry and conquered the audience in its scheduled time. Later on he created and produced En Casa de Luis Raúl, a late-night talk show that marked the return to the local screen of comedian Luis Raúl and integrated the use of the Internet, achieving a new level of interaction with the audience.

In 2000, Montilla achieved the inclusion of Puerto Rico in the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and, in doing so, made it possible for Puerto Rico to compete for the Emmy Award. This feat led to Montilla being unanimously elected as Vice-president of the Chapter and re-elected in 2005. In those first four years Puerto Rico obtained more than 30 nominations and won 20 of them.

In 2003 he joined the Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation as executive producer of the En Todas de TUTV. In 2005 he was designated as President of the Puerto Rico CPB, heading two television stations (WIPR AND WIPM) and two radio stations (940 AM AND Allegro 91.3).

As of June 2008 Montilla is immersed in establishing a fundraising department that will aid in the development of larger scale local productions, the acquisition of better resources, as well as support the Corporation’s move towards self sufficiency and the permanence of production opportunities in Puerto Rico.

[edit] Taking Puerto Rican Television beyond the shores

As part of his goal to expand the reach of Puerto Rican programming beyond our shores, Montilla negotiated an unprecedented agreement with Televicentro-WAPAmerica^[3] to broadcast TUTV’s shows in key Hispanic markets throughout the United States.

[edit] Awards

In 2006, the Board of Governors of the Suncoast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), voted unanimously to give the Governor's Award to Victor J. Montilla.

The Governor's Award is the most prestigious award given by the Academy. Since the first award in 1978 to Mitchell Wolfson who founded television in South Florida, the award has only been presented 17 other times. This is only the second Governor's Award to a representative of Spanish-language television. The first was presented to the Univision and Telemundo networks in 1991. This is the first Governor's award to a Puerto Rican broadcaster.

The Governor's Award recognizes those persons, or those television entities, who are worthy of recognition for the quality of their contribution to television in the Suncoast region of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Puerto Rico.

The Academy recognized Mr. Montilla's extraordinary achievements in successfully organizing a petition in 1999 of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to accept Puerto Rican television into the Suncoast Chapter and subsequently his outstanding work as Vice President Puerto Rico for the Suncoast Chapter, which included the establishment of the Puerto Rican Silver Circle Awards that so far have recognized in three gala, formal dinner ceremonies in San Juan the achievements of television legends Paquito Cordero in 2003, Tommy Muñiz in 2004 and José Miguel Agrelot and Jacobo Morales in 2006.^[4]

Montilla was also named Television Executive of the Year by AdNotas.com ^[5]