Roxanne Vargas, who hosts 6 in the Mix on NBC-owned WTVJ, will host the PromaxBDA Latin America Awards ceremony as key entertainment marketers from the region convene for the annual conference.

Voted “Best TV Host” by the Miami New Times in 2012, Vargas has received five Emmy nominations for her reporting and hosting. She joined the NBC 6 News team in 2007, but has been part of the station family since 2003, and also contributes Spanish reports to NBC 6’s sister station Telemundo 51.
A South Florida native, she’s passionate about reporting on the community she grew up in. Vargas has been recognized with the Pink Flamingo Award for Favorite Media Personality by her local LGBT visitor center, and received a community leadership award from the Girls Scouts of Southeast Florida. She currently serves on the board of the Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida.
In 2014 she joined the likes of Brooke Shields, Demi Moore and Maria Shriver in elite group of women from around the world, and was inducted into famed fashion designer Donna Karan’s Women Who Inspire program.
Vargas is also a published author as co-writer of the book “100 Things to do in Miami Before you Die.”
She’ll bring her talents to the stage of the New World Center in Miami on November 8, when hundreds of networks and agencies will be globally recognized for their work in television promotion, marketing and design in what serves as the only awards competition of its kind for Latin America.
In addition to four new categories this year targeting content speicifically aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market, PromaxBDA also revealed a special Game Changer Award recognizing cultural innovators who, through the development of new technologies, applications or business models, are transforming the business of entertainment marketing.
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Vargas will not only host the awards show, but will also moderate the keynote session from Raze TV, a digital platform spearheaded by Modern Family‘s Sofia Vergara.

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The keynote session “A Conversation with Raze TV” focuses on how the company is cutting through the media clutter with a mobile and social-first storytelling platform. Six months after its launch, the founders of Raze TV will discuss how young Latinos are impacting the digital content space, and share insights for success in this competitive new segment of the media industry.
Panelists include:
Emiliano Calemzuk, Co-Founder and CEO, Raze TV
Calemzuk founded Raze in 2016 with Luis Balaguer and Sofia Vergara. He was previously CEO of 21st Century Fox’s Shine Americas and President of Fox Television Studios.
From 2002 to 2007, he served as the President of Fox International Channels Europe and before that he was vice president and deputy managing director of Fox Latin American Channels and general manager of Fox Kids Latin America.
Luis Balaguer, Co-Founder, Raze TV
Balaguer is the co-founder of Raze and the founder and CEO of Latin World Entertainment (LatinWE), a world renown entertainment and Hispanic talent management company. A trustee of the Latin Recording Academy which hosts the annual Latin Grammy Awards, and a member of the International Academy of Television which hosts the Emmys, Balaguer has been recognized by the New York Times, Variety and Forbes as an evangelist of Hispanic talent in the U.S., and was featured as one of the “25 Most Powerful and Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Magazine. He regularly speaks at top media conferences around the world.
Rafael Sandor, Chief Creative Officer, Raze TV
Sandor brings decades of experience developing successful entertainment properties to Raze. Most recently he served as head of TV marketing and creative at Viceland and prior to that he was EVP of marketing and creative for the international divisions of Fox and National Geographic. Sandor spent 15 years in various roles at Fox International where he led the creative teams to grow the company’s international channels from a small regional network to a global empire with more than 300 channels.
At the conference, renowed brand strategist Lee Hunt also will be on hand to offer insight on where the industry is heading in his “Best Practices” session, while “State of Art” hosts Sean Saylor of Viacom International Media Networks The Americas and Pablo Szneiberg of Sony Pictures Entertainment will showcase the best and biggest ideas of 2017.
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