In 1976 he got married.
He was Head of Sales for Instituto de Publicaciones y Estadísticas, Imprenta y Editorial (Publications and Statistics, Press and Publishing Institute) in Buenos Aires, where he became President later on –in 1979– and held that position until 2008.
En 1983 he traveled to Los Angeles, California, and created in 1985 Spanish Television Services, Inc., a company that worked on TV program international distribution, where he was President until 1998.
In 1987 he graduated with a BA in Arts from the Film and Television School at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. At the same year he also founded Broadcast Standard, a video lab situated in the same city.
He went back to his motherland with his wife and five children in 1989 to settle in Buenos Aires and
create Promisa, a film and television production company where he was President and producer of the following programs:
Telenovelas:
La extraña dama
Cosecharás tu siembra
Más allá del horizonte
Con alma de tango
Antonio Alves, taxista
Comedy and Drama series:
Socios
Teatro Argentino
Talk show:
Forum
Films:
El mundo contra mí
Pequeños milagros
In 1991, Omar created and chaired the company Ronda Estudios, which consisted of some television studios in Buenos Aires.
In 1999 he traveled to Miami to become Executive President for América Te Ve WJAN Miami (Channel 41), where he has worked successfully to this day.
AMÉRICA TE VE – WJAN MIAMI
AMÉRICA TE VE begins in 1994. Mr. Omar Romay takes over of the channel in 1998.
Of the major U.S. Hispanic Markets Miami/Fort Lauderdale is ranked #1 in household income, making it the most affluent Hispanic Market in the country. More than half of the 1.75 million Hispanics living in the Greater Miami Area are from countries in South and Central America and the Caribbean, with only 4.9% coming from Mexico.
America Te Ve’s programming reflects the diversity of South Florida’s Hispanic community, reaching audiences that are often overlooked by the two largest Spanish language networks.
America Te Ve offers viewers daily, live, locally produced programming specifically designed for the Miami/Ft.Lauderdale Hispanic community and provides advertisers with a loyal viewing audience not available on any other station in the market.
America Te Ve is an independent, minority-owned, Spanish language local broadcast station. Unlike Telemundo and Univision, with programming that targets Mexicans as the majority segment in the US Hispanic Market, America Te Ve is programming targets a wide range of Hispanic groups. America Te Ve covers the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Market, with additional distribution throughout South Florida.
America Te Ve is broadcast on Channel 41 as well as virtually all cable systems, covering more than 80% of Hispanic cable households within the DMA.
America Te Ve can see from West Palm Beach to Key West.
COVERAGE’S:
COMCAST MIAMI: CITY OF MIAMI / OPA LOCKA – CHANNEL 12
COMCAST NORTH: NORTH MIAMI, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, AVENTURA, BISCAYNE PARK, EL PORTAL, MIRAMAR SHORES, NORTH EAST DADE - CHANNEL 12
COMCAST SOUTH DADE: PINCECREST, SOUTH MIAMI – CHANNEL 12
COMCAST WEST: NORTHWEST DADE, SOUTH EAST DADE, HIALEAH, WEST CENTRAL DADE, HIALEAH GARDENS, MEDLEY, MIAMI SPRINGS, VIRGINIA GARDENS, FONTAINEBLEAU, WEST MIAMI, SWEETWATER, CORAL
GABLES – CHANNEL 12.
COMCAST BROWARD: PEMBROKE PINE, MIRAMAR, PEMBROKE PARK – CHANNEL 12
ADELPHIA: SOUTH DADE, SOUTHWEST DADE, HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA CITY KEY BISCAYNE – CHANNEL 31
ATLANTIC BROADBAND: MIAMI BEACH, NORTH BAY VILLAGE, SUNNY ISLES BEACH, AVENTURA, BAL HARBOR, ISLANDS, SURFSIDE, NORTH EAST DADE - CHANNEL 17
COMCAST CABLE: DORAL - CHANNEL 41
TELE-MEDIA COMPANY: PEMBROKE PINES, MIRAMAR - CHANNEL 2
DIRECTV SATELLITE CHANNEL 41
DISH NETWORK – CHANNEL 41
