The departure of Televisa’s controlling shareholder, Emilio Azcárraga, is a step toward remaking the company to deal with the increasing fragmentation of Mexico’s media audience.
The tide is turning among America’s Spanish-language broadcast networks, and no one is happier about it than NBCUniversal boss Steve Burke. Soon, he says, parent company Comcast’s investors will catch up to his level of joy. That turnaround hasn’t technically paid off just yet in terms of revenues — but it could be just a matter of time.
Noticias Telemundo Investiga will produce in-depth original exposés and documentaries on key Hispanic topics.
WNJU Names Endy Rodriguez VP Of News
He is promoted to oversee all journalism operations at Telemundo’s New York outlet.
Exclusives
The Hispanic broadcaster is paying $2.55 million for the music video low-power outlet.
Come Jan. 1, Comcast will begin carrying the three Estrella TV stations in Houston, Denver and Salt Lake City that it dropped in 2015. That’s because station owner Liberman Broadcasting Inc. has selected must-carry status in the just-wrapped election cycle.
Digital and TV have an often symbiotic relationship for Univision, with shows created for digital also running on linear TV.
TeleXitos, Telemundo Station Group’s national Spanish-language multicast network, will celebrate Halloween with four weeks of special programming. Beginning Sunday, Oct. 1, viewers can tune in to TeleXitos every Sunday until […]
LBI Media To Help Victims of Mexico Earthquake
Telemundo Stations Team Up For Disaster Relief
NBCU To Launch Telemundo Affiliate In DC
NBCUniversal is taking over affiliation rights for the Telemundo station in the D.C. market and will be launching its own Telemundo-owned station in December. ZGS Communications, which owns the largest group of independent Telemundo affiliations, gave up its spectrum for the Washington market earlier this year in the FCC’s spectrum auction, which gave NBCU the ability to take back the Telemundo affiliation
KSBW To Simulcast News On Estrella Subchannel
Beginning Monday, Sept. 11, Hearst Television-owned NBC affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, Calif. (DMA 125), will simulcast its 5 p.m. newscast with live Spanish closed captioning on its Estrella TV Costa […]
KCRA News To Simulcast On Estrella Subchannel
Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 5, Hearst-owned NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento, Calif. (DMA 20), will simulcast its 5 p.m. newscast on its Estrella TV Sacramento that airs on ch. 58.3. “We are […]
Telemundo is celebrating a strong summer performance in primetime that has allowed the Spanish-language network to pull ahead of the long-dominant Univision in the adults 18-34 demographic for the first time.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Gizmodo Media Group, a division of Univision Communications, has sought to quickly defeat a defamation lawsuit brought over an article published on the sports website Deadspin, saying the complaint is intended to intimidate journalists. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.
Randy Falco, CEO of Univision Communications, is the latest corporate leader to call for a forceful condemnation of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville, Va. Falco sent a memo to staffers at the Spanish-language media giant pledging to speak out against attacks on immigrants, the LGBT community, the media and those who “espouse racist and hateful views.”
Entravision 2Q TV Revenue Slips 4%
A bright spot for the company’s overall results is its digital revenue, which was boosted by the 2Q acquisition of Headway, a provider of mobile, programmatic, data and performance digital marketing solutions primarily in the United States, Mexico and other markets in Latin America.
Estrella TV Adds KCTU Wichita As Newest Affiliate
Spanish-language broadcaster LBI Media said today that its Estrella TV Network has added a new affiliate in Wichita, Kan. Estrella TV has signed an affiliate agreement with KCTU-LD owned by […]
Univision Communications today announced the launch of the 2017 internship program with Miami Dade College’s Miami Animation & Gaming International Complex (MAGIC), the region’s premier animation and gaming educational facility. MAGIC’s […]
Francisco Cortes, a former vice president at Fox News Latino, says he was forced by contract to stay silent as Tamara Holder came forward to accuse him of assault.
The Spanish-language network adds a Colombian one-hour sitcom to its programming lineup.
The Liberty Media chairman is discussing buying a “significant stake” in Univision, according to The Wall Street Journal. It says the owner of the dominant Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S., has been fielding interest from potential bidders after the media company’s initial public offering was delayed, according to people familiar with the matter. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.
WWSI To Host Immigration Phone Bank
The Spanish-language network is a striking example of a news organization that is meeting the needs of a frightened and information-famished audience.
Both on-air and streaming, newscasts will also include collaboration with Univision radio stations.
Carlos Yustis Joins KTLM As Sports Anchor
Telemundo-owned KTLM Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas (DMA 84) today announced that Carlos Yustis has been named weekday sports anchor for NoticiasTelemundo 40, which airs Monday through Friday at 4, 4:30, 5 and 10 […]
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises today appointed Francisco Ponce VP of on-air talent management. He will oversee on-air talent relations, helping to develop and execute a unified on-air talent strategy across the division. […]
The Spanish-language broadcaster will make its original content catalogue available in markets around the world through Sabbatical Entertainment.
NBCUniversal Telemundo has signed a new exclusive content partnership with Vice Media. The partnership entails co-production of original documentary segments for Telemundo News and a one-hour hosted weekly show for Universo. Both programs are expected to debut in the fall.
Endemol Shine Latino is on pace to becoming “the biggest independent producer in the U.S. Hispanic market,” said its president, Laurens Drillich. Since its launch in the spring of 2016, the Latino division of Endemol Shine North America has sold five new shows to Telemundo and Univision alone.
Univision Touts Multicultural ‘Mainstream’
Univision executives gave a big plug to the multicultural programming on cable net Fusion and the efforts to diversify the range of programming on the mothership broadcast networks during its upfront presentation in New York today. “What marketers thought of as multicultural media is fast becoming mainstream,” Steve Mandala, Univision’s EVP of ad sales, told the crowd of media buyers gathered at the Lyric Theater.
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises unveiled today its 2017-18 programming lineup, to feature more than 850 hours of new formats and multiplatform original content. The new primetime programming line-up includes the returning La Reina del Sur, five new miniseries (including one based on the life of music icon Luis Miguel and another about the death of beloved Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla).
Telemundo-owned WWSI Philadelphia (DMA 4) announced today that Alexandra Galarza will join the station as general assignment reporter and Brian Mendoza will become South Jersey reporter, effective Monday, May 15. […]
