He most recently worked at WBOC-TV in Maryland resigning as night-side male anchor at the end of August 2011.
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.
ABC affiliate WMDT operated and promoted cable-exclusive WB affiliate "WBD" provided through The WB 100+.