Univision executive Lee continues his meteoric ascent at the company in a move to streamline content production across both Univision and Televisa. Televisa has a 40% stake in Univision that could rise to 49% with Univision’s IPO.
The Spanish-language TV group is saddled with huge debt and under challenge from NBC-owned Telemundo. Its supplier of telenovelas, Televisa, is out to take control of the company.
TeleXitos, the national Spanish-language multicast network featuring action-adventure series and feature films without subtitles, announced that Airwolf and Knight Rider will air on the network for the first time beginning Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. […]
Spanish-language broadcast network Azteca America continues to build out its distribution in the wake of MundoMax’s apparent demise. It could help Azteca shed its status as the least-watched network on broadcast TV. Azteca has boosted its presence in three major markets, including new affiliate WHEH in Charlotte, N.C. That station began airing AA on Dec. 1.
The Spanish-language network signs an affiliation and sales agreement with WGEN in the nation’s third-largest Hispanic market. The addition expands Azteca America’s network to 65 markets.
Orietta De Luque Joins WNJU’s ‘Acceso Total’
Telemundo-owned WNJU New York (DMA 1) has named Orietta De Luque as the new co-host of Acceso Total, the station’s entertainment and lifestyle program that airs Monday to Fridays at 10 a.m. De […]
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Univision’s KXLN and Telemundo’s KTMD are pushing Spanish-language TV to the top of Houston ratings, even over their English-language counterparts, in the fourth largest Spanish TV market in the country.
And it’s not just illegals. Hispanics of all sorts worry how they’ll be treated under the Trump administration. Networks are reaching out with special programming to allay those fears.
Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications will lay off almost 6% of its workforce — between 200 and 250 people — after it slipped into the red last quarter. the company said today. The layoffs, along with a planned restructuring, “are in response to difficult times, challenging times,” Isaac Lee, Univision’s digital, entertainment and news chief, said. “We need to position ourselves for the future.”
The two-day celebration is a big deal in Mexico and Latin America, and increasingly in the U.S. Now, advertisers are taking notice.
While a majority of editorial staffers at Fusion signed union cards earlier this month, their efforts face new resistance from upper level management at the millennial-geared web publisher. According to Fusion staffers, executives have told employees at meetings in New York, Miami, Oakland and Los Angeles over the past two weeks that unionization would alter benefits, impact hiring and firing, hinder communication between writers and editors and cap salaries.
ESPN2 Targets A New Type Of Sports Viewer
The network is reaching out to Hispanic Millennials, who like their sports information in English and Spanish, with ESPN Nacion. ESPN Deportes’ Freddy Rolón talks about the show’s conception, the network’s goals for the program, and what other Spanish-language programs may be a possibility for ESPN.
Telemundo today appointed Ingrid Sanchez Graham senior vice president of creative operations. In this new role, she will drive the operational development, management and execution of creative shared services and […]
Telemundo-owned WSNS Chicago (DMA 3) said today that Irene Sanchez has joined the station as a news reporter. She will be reporting for its weekday newscasts Noticiero Telemundo Chicago at 4, 4:30, […]
The Spanish-language network is producing almost no new shows, leaving affiliates to air repeats. It’s expected to shut down completely in the coming months. It never found a path after Fox pulled out.
After striking out with the FCC in a carriage discrimination complaint against Comcast, Spanish-language broadcaster Liberman Broadcasting has struck a carriage deal with the No. 2 pay TV platform, DirecTV. The deal will put network Estrella TV on the program guides of more than 20 million satellite TV customers.
The Spanish-language TV group is saddled with huge debt and under challenge from NBC-owned Telemundo. Its supplier of telenovelas, Televisa, is out to take control of the company.
Entravision, owner of Univision- and Unimas-affiliated stations, will launch a digital content initiative through an investment and partnership with Chanclazo Studios, a digital production studio that creates and distributes short- and long-form 3D animation, virtual reality and augmented reality content for Hispanics.
As part of what it calls its “ongoing commitment to inform and empower Hispanic America across the nation,” Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) today announced that it is going to provide […]
KVEA Tops At 11 P.M. Regardless Of Language
To call the 2016 presidential election unpredictable would be an understatement. What can be expected, however, is the importance of the Latino vote on the election’s outcome. To project how US Hispanics will vote and their impact on the election, Univision News created an electoral forecast model called “Swing Latino.” The forecasts are updated every two weeks from Sept. 8 to Election Day (Nov. 8).
WSNS To Add 4 P.M. Weekday Newscast
Telemundo’s Chicago outlet will debut the new broadcast on Sept. 26 with Anabel Monge and Alfonso Gutierrez as co-anchors.
KDEN Launches New Weekday News Next Week
Telemundo-owned KDEN Denver (DMA 17) will introduce a new half-hour weekday newscast on Monday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. Carlos Rausseo and Pamela Padilla will co-anchor Noticiero Telemundo Denver a las […]
WWSI Launches New Weekday News Next Week
Telemundo-owned WWSI Philadelphia (DMA 4) will introduce a new half-hour weekday newscast on Monday, Sept. 26, at 5 p.m. Iris Delgado will anchor Noticiero Telemundo62 a las 5 PM. “We are thrilled […]
TeleXitos, Telemundo’s multicast channel for Spanish-language viewers that seek action adventure en Español, has the rights to air the iconic 1960’s television series, Batman, in Spanish. Viewers in the United States will […]
The two companies team up to offer a new premium on-demand movie service that will tap a base of more than 50 million Hispanic consumers in the U.S.
Univision is launching a newscast at noon ET, but it’s how the show is going to be delivered that’s the real news. Noticiero Univision Edición Digital (Noticero Univision Digital Edition) will broadcast on the Univision network, and it will also stream on Univision.com, Facebook Live, YouTube and Periscope.
A seismic shift in young Hispanics’ television tastes is testing Univision’s 24-year marriage to its longtime programming supplier, Mexican TV giant Grupo Televisa, a relationship that helped fuel the rise of Hispanic media in the U.S.
Telemundo on Wednesday announced the appointment of Gemma Garcia as executive producer of Noticiero Telemundo. In her role, she will supervise and oversee the editorial vision, production logistics and personnel […]
KTLM McAllen Advances ’25 Years Overnight’
Since June 25, the station has been operating from its new 23,000-square-foot Telemundo 40 Studios on the second floor of building near downtown McAllen and the community’s city hall. There, it produces 14 hours of news a week as well as other local programming in 1080i HD from a modern, adaptable set designed by John Casey Production Design in New York City and built by Blackwalnut in Valley Cottage, N.Y.
Telemundo announced today the promotion of Angel Domenech to vice president of creative strategy. He will oversee the strategic creative approach, development and execution of the network’s launches and overall […]
In many Hispanic homes in the United States, Univision is a constant TV presence and a huge influence. Last week, though, Univision made news with a purchase far afield from that core: It bought Gawker Media’s sites — English-language, not especially concerned with Latino culture and oriented toward a young audience that is glued not to TV sets but to smartphones. What’s going on here? “The future is young, digital and diverse,” the company’s news and digital chief, Isaac Lee, said in his first interview since the successful bid at auction last week.
Univision Communications Inc. today announced the promotion of Silvia García to senior vice president of media planning and multiplatform strategy. She will continue to be based in Miami and report […]
Univision Expands Hispanic Voter Campaign
NBC Universo announced production executive Fernando Gastón is joining the company as VP of production and development. In this new role, he will be responsible for the development and execution […]
SAG-AFTRA is amping up its six-month-old campaign against NBCUniversal in its battle for unionization of Spanish-language performers on Telemundo productions. The performers union accused NBCUniversal in February of operating with a double standard between Spanish-language and English-language talent hired for productions under the same parent corporation.
