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Armando Nuñez Sr. Dies: Influential International TV Distribution Exec Was 96
Armando Nuñez Sr., the longtime international TV distribution executive who worked for 20th Century Fox and ITC Entertainment, died July 10 at 96.
Armando Nuñez Sr., the longtime international television distribution executive who worked for CBS, 20th Century Fox and ITC Entertainment, died of natural causes July 10 in Miami. Born in Cuba in 1927, Nuñez Sr. later fled the country after Fidel Castro took power in October 1960 and immigrated to the U.S. with his wife Clara Jo (Josie), who was eight months pregnant with their first son Armando, Jr., who would later become President of CBS Global Distribution and Chief Content Licensing Officer at ViacomCBS. Cigar-smoking British exec Lew Grade had launched ITC in 1954 and went on to become a pioneer international TV distribution, with Nuñez Sr. becoming a key player in his empire.
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