Steckel then moved on to become Chief Executive Officer of Unefón in 2000, a company that he built from scratch, garnering 1.4 million subscribers, and more than US$100 million in EBITDA annually.In 2005, TV Azteca (one of the two largest producers of Spanish-language television programming in the world) named Mr. Steckel as President and CEO of Azteca America, the company's wholly owned broadcasting network focused on the U.S. Hispanic market.