Latin Themes, English Beat

摘要

In the early hours of Feb. 25, SiTV founder Jeff Valdez was holding his breath, anxiously watching seconds tick off an on-screen clock. His cable network, five years in the making, was finally about to launch. Valdez and his small staff were gathered on the SiTV soundstage, nervously nibbling their breakfast and waiting for the new English-language, Latino-themed channel to sign on at noon ET. "I was praying the signal would come up," Valdez recalls. Luckily, it did.