The Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Mário Machado (born Mário José de Souza Machado; April 22, 1935 – May 4, 2013) was a Portuguese-Chinese-American television and radio broadcaster and actor. He made television history when, in 1970, he became the first American of Chinese heritage to be an on-air television news reporter and anchor in Los Angeles and perhaps in the nation. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Mario Machado, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.