Pepe Barreto
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Pepe Barreto is a community and entertainment reporter for KMEX-TV
, Channel 34. With extensive experience in television and radio, Barreto, joined KMEX'sthe awardwinning news team, Noticias 34 in April 1993.
in 1972.
Barreto is known as the number one radio show personality in Los Angeles
on KLVE-FM, working on the station since 1985 and for a time attracting the largest radio audience in Los Angeles in the morning drivetime slot, with up to 7.4% market share.
Barreto also worked as a news reporter for KNBC-TV from 1976 to 1985, where he launched the station's first Spanish
simulcast. Barreto received his undergraduate degree from Catholic University of Peru. In 2007, Barreto received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
in recognition of his work on KLVE.
KMEX-TV
KMEX-DT, "Univisión 34 Los Angeles", is the Univision owned-and-operated station in Los Angeles and the network's flagship station for the West Coast. KMEX, first broadcast in 1962, opened the way for other Spanish-language stations and networks in the United States...
, Channel 34. With extensive experience in television and radio, Barreto, joined KMEX'sthe awardwinning news team, Noticias 34 in April 1993.
Biography
Barretto moved from Peru to Los AngelesLos Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
in 1972.
Barreto is known as the number one radio show personality in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
on KLVE-FM, working on the station since 1985 and for a time attracting the largest radio audience in Los Angeles in the morning drivetime slot, with up to 7.4% market share.
Barreto also worked as a news reporter for KNBC-TV from 1976 to 1985, where he launched the station's first Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
simulcast. Barreto received his undergraduate degree from Catholic University of Peru. In 2007, Barreto received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Hollywood Walk of Fame
The Hollywood Walk of Fame consists of more than 2,400 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California...
in recognition of his work on KLVE.