Joaquín Vargas Gómez

Joaquín Vargas Gómez (28 September 1925 – 28 November 2009) was a Mexican media mogul and owner of MVS Comunicaciones, a conglomerate that owns a radio station group known as MVS Radio, with stations in Mexico and in many Latin American countries, as well as some in the United States. He also founded Corporación Mexicana de Restaurantes (CMR), an owner and operator of various restaurants.

Vargas Gómez was born in Mexico City, but considered himself an adopted child of Linares, Nuevo León. In Mexico City, he attended Secondary School No. 3 and the Heroico Colegio Militar, where he graduated with the rank of sublieutenant. He went to the military school because he did not have the means to attend a private university. He also took courses in business administration from the Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas (IPADE).

Vargas was an entrepreneur who created dozens of businesses in a variety of fields, including tool factories and gas stations in the Mexico City area. In 1965, on a visit to the United States, Vargas was impressed by the quality of the stereo sound in his car. On April 15, 1967, listeners in Monterrey were treated to the launch of Mexico's first stereo FM station,Stereorey, named for its stereo audio and for the city where it first launched. Stereorey would later become a national network, as Vargas acquired concessions for additional FM radio stations at a time when the band was mostly ignored and most cars sold in the country only had AM radios. By the 2000s, MVS Radio, the group built from those initial stations, operated four formats and two national networks. Another audio business that sprang from Vargas was Programusic, a Muzak-like service offering CD-quality audio for businesses and convention centers. Shortly after he founded Stereorey, he became the president and director general of another innovative broadcaster based in Monterrey, Televisión Independiente de México (TIM). After leaving TIM, he returned to television in 1976 by founding Telerey, the first production and postproduction center in Mexico.

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