Raoul Cortez

U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro also nominated the broadcast from KCOR, the first full time Spanish language radio station, opened in 1946 and based in San Antonio. The station was founded by Raoul Cortez, the father of Irma Alicia Cortez. She later married Emilio Nicolas, the businessman who built the largest Spanish-language television network in the United States.

The artistic honor came on his 118th birthday.