operated station in Miami for over 10 years, and helped shape the first NBC/Telemundo duopoly in the nation. In said position Mr. Vizcon was responsible for overseeing the daily operations, production, and editorial content of the station’s early morning, Noon, 6 and 11 PM newscasts, as well as its 4 weekend editions. Prior to that, Mr. Vizcon was Executive News Producer for the station.
Throughout his over twenty eight year career, Mr. Vizcon has worked in numerous capacities including as a producer with WQBA Radio, WLTV-TV, Channel 23, the Univision Network, and WTVJ-TV, Channel 6, all in Miami. He has also worked as a news producer for WINK-TV, in Fort Myers, Florida and for WCMH-TV, in Columbus, Ohio.
He is a 2002 recipient of an Emmy Award for News Series Producing. He was the recipient of two
additional Emmy Award nominations for News Oriented Specials and News Series Reporting. He has an Outstanding Achievement and Honorable Mention awards for Best Producer, Newscasts from United
Press International. He has twice received the Best Newscast Award from the Latin American Critics and Commentators Association.
Mr. Vizcon is a graduate of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida with a degree in Broadcasting and conducted post-graduate work at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, Illinois and at Columbia University’s News Management School in Columbia, Missouri. He is listed in Who’s Who in the Media and Communications and in the International Who’s Who of Professionals. He has sat on the board of directors of the Miami-Dade County Juvenile Crime Assessment Council and in the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Suncoast Chapter, as well as, in the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orlando Hispanic Chamber’s Don Quixote’s Awards and the Second Harvest Food Bank boards.
Vizcon received the “Outstanding Communicator of the Year Award”, from St. Thomas University in
Miami in 2001.
Mr. Vizcon also served as the Affiliate News Coordinator during his tenure at Telemundo Miami. In that capacity, he was responsible for coordinating news gathering efforts throughout the seventeen Telemundo owned and operated stations, including the affiliate coverage of the 1996 and 2001 Political Conventions. He also co-moderated a weekly conference call with all the news directors and was a consultant of news expansions at the Telemundo affiliates level. That included the successful launch in 1999 of the company’s first local midday newscast of a Spanish station in the nation.
In January of 2001, Vizcon and his team launched WSCV-TV’s Early Morning newscast, from 6 to 7 am, and later that year, the station’s 4 weekend newscast. The Miami channel 51 newsroom produced two and a half hours of news a day, being the first to produce more Spanish local news than any other Spanish station in the country. In May and July of 2002, as well as in November of 2003, the Channel 51 newscast was the most watched Spanish newscast in the Miami DMA
