Osvaldo ‘Ozzie’ Martínez Executive Vice President of Multiplatform News, Original Programming & Standards Telemundo Station Group, & General Manager, Telemundo Nuevo México / KASA
Osvaldo ‘Ozzie’ Martínez is Executive Vice President of Multiplatform News, Original Programming & Standards for the Telemundo Station Group, part of NBCUniversal Local, which includes 31 local Telemundo stations across the United States and Puerto Rico. He also serves as General Manager for Telemundo Nuevo Mexico / KASA.
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SUSCRÍBETE In his Telemundo Station Group role, Martínez oversees the Telemundo-owned stations’ multiplatform news operations -- which are designed to evolve and grow to meet local audiences when and where they consume local news -- and works closely with the stations' newsroom leaders to enhance operations, collaboration, strategy and talent development.
Martínez also leads the Telemundo Station Group’s news bureaus in Miami, Washington, D.C., and Mexico, which provide daily news and information to all Telemundo owned and affiliate stations across the country. As the head of Standards, Martínez also ensures that all local newsrooms are operating with the highest standards of journalistic integrity.
Since joining the Telemundo Station Group in 2013, he has been promoted multiple times, from VP of News & Standards in 2013 to his current EVP role and has overseen considerable innovation in storytelling and new platform launches, resulting in audience and revenue growth. In 2022, he played a key leadership role in the launch of NBC and Telemundo-owned stations' 15 news streaming channels, which are available across top OTT and streaming platforms.
In 2024, Martínez added leadership of KASA to his responsibilities. In this role, he oversees all aspects of the Albuquerque-based station, which joined Telemundo Station Group in 2021, including news, digital, sales, marketing, human resources, community affairs, and technology.
In 2014, Martínez led the launch of Telemundo Responde, a consumer investigative unit that assists consumers who have been wronged, across 22 markets. The initiative then expanded to NBC owned stations. The NBC- and Telemundo-owned stations’ consumer units have now recovered more than $90 million for consumers in the communities served.
In addition, Martinez founded Telemundo Local Academy after noticing a need to create a professional pipeline for bilingual and Spanish-language local journalists. The hands-on training program for undergraduate journalism students who want to serve bilingual audiences through careers in local broadcasting launched in 2017 in partnership with the University of Florida. It has since expanded to several campuses across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
Before joining the Telemundo Station Group, Martínez held various newsroom roles with NBC 4 New York / WNBC from 2008 to 2014, including Assistant News Director. Prior to NBC 4, he was Executive Producer for CBS 4 South Florida / WFOR and Fox 7 / WSVN in Miami. Martínez began his media career at WSVN, where he became one of the youngest executive producers in the country and managed the station’s then four-hour morning newscast.
Martínez is an eight-time Emmy®Award-winning journalist. He also holds six Murrow Awards and, in 2012, was honored by El Diario La Prensa with an “EL Award.” In 2019, he was named to NYC Television Week’s 40 under 40 list. Martínez is bilingual and bicultural. He earned a bachelor’s degree in communications with a concentration in broadcast journalism and English from the University of Miami. He resides in Miami.
