He most recently worked at WBOC-TV in Maryland resigning as night-side male anchor at the end of August 2011.
ABC affiliate WMDT operated and promoted cable-exclusive WB affiliate "WBD" provided through The WB 100+.
He had also been director of public relations for Vitacoustic Records from September 1947 to March 1948 and a radio announcer for WBOC.
In 1986, Tichenor decided to exit the English-language broadcasting market by selling KGBT-TV to the Draper Holdings Business Trust, the owner of WBOC-TV in Salisbury, Maryland; Tichenor retained the KGBT radio stations until 2003 when their company (which became the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation by the late 1990s) merged with Univision Communications.