Rene Anselmo  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:
navigation, search  Reynold "Rene" Anselmo (January 14, 1926 –
September 9, 1995) was a Boston native and World War II Marine
Corps veteran. Anselmo moved to Mexico after the war, but later
returned to the United States to help run the Spanish language
television network Televisa, and later to co-found PanAmSat.[1]
PanAmSat gained a foothold in the television market by providing
satellite services for private commercial communication
networks, such as those used by international conglomerates to
connect far flung manufacturing operations around the globe or
provide data connections between a large number of retail
outlets and corporate headquarters.[2]  He was a man with
"unflinching self-confidence and willingness to risk all in his
fight to upend the status quo," Space News stated in a tribute
to Anselmo.[3] He challenged the monopoly in satellite provision
held by Intelsat in the 1980s, taking out full-page ads in the
Wall Street Journal asking p