NBC Stations Eye Growth In Instagram, Voice
The NBC O&Os are making audience inroads on platforms where many other station groups have feared to tread. Digital chief Lora Dennis says early moves on Instagram’s IGTV and voice platforms like Amazon and Google have been promising, and bilingual digital collaborations with its Telemundo stations are also proliferating.
NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo will air the first Democratic primary debate in June, and CNN will show the second event in July, the Democratic National Committee announced on Thursday.
NBC/Telemundo Program Grows Station Marketers
Most people who work in local TV marketing come to the position by happenstance. A new program at the NBC/Telemundo owned stations fast tracks candidates with the right stuff to step right into a position at their stations. “We really should be growing our own,” said Dianne Hannes, creative services director at WMAQ, NBC’s Chicago O&O.
Also adding the Rhiza and Voter Ratings to their suite of services for local TV measurement are nine NBC Sports regional networks.
KDEN Promotes Rosy Zugasti To News Anchor
Telemundo-owned KDEN Denver (DMA 17) made Rosy Zugasti news anchor, effective immediately. She will join co-anchor Miguel Bedoy and weather anchor Niurma Sánchez on Noticiero Telemundo Denver at 5 and 10 p.m. […]
Exclusives
NBC/Telemundo has agreed to pay $495,000 to settle an FCC investigation into whether it fulfilled its children’s TV programming obligation — in several instances, it didn’t. (The amount of the settlement was initially incorrectly reported as in the millions of dollars).
IP-enabled production and playout models promise cost savings and increased flexibility. And once content flows through a data center, artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to generate metadata and direct the future distribution, repurposing and archiving of that content.
Used exclusively by NBC/Telemundo station meteorologists, the StormRanger radar trucks are honored for revolutionizing the timeliness and accuracy of local weather forecasting and reporting.
TV dramas about brutal drug lords helped give Telemundo an edge over Univision in primetime in the soon-to-wrap TV season, recently released ratings reveal.
Noticias Telemundo is giving a boost to its coverage of U.S. politics by appointing Mexican journalist Javier Vega as a Washington correspondent for the network.
Luis Silberwasser is exiting after nearly four years as president of Telemundo Networks. In addition, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises also gave new leadership responsibilities of four key executives: Beau Ferrari, Mónica Gil, Peter Blacker and Ronald Day.
Telemundo, which has the exclusive Spanish-language rights to air the soccer tournament, is celebrating over its better-than-expected advertising revenue, despite less-than stellar ratings.
The American team’s collapse that keeps it out of the FIFA World Cup elevates the Mexican national team for both networks and intensifies the competition for the 21 million bilingual viewers in the U.S.
Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo today said it would launch a new midday national newscast to its programming lineup as part of a widening commitment to developing news programming for its viewers. Noticias Telemundo, Mediodía will launch Jan. 22 at 12:30 p.m.
Three New Execs At Telemundo’s WZDC
Janette Luviano will lead the Washington station’s newsroom as news director; Will Hildebrandt has been named VP of sales; and Nestor Alvarenga will oversee community affairs strategies as community manager.
The price tag comes from an FCC filing. NBCU announced the acquisition of the Telemundo affiliate group on Monday without giving the price.
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.
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
The two most prominent media companies that program to a Spanish-speaking audience criticized the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, announced Tuesday morning.
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.
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.
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).
Hulu has finalized a deal with NBCUniversal for carriage of 15 channels as part of its live TV service that will be unveiled soon. The deal covers NBCU-owned cable channels as well as NBC- and Telemundo-owned stations.
Rossyris Silva Named News VP At KSTS
She is joining the Bay Area Telemundo outlet from the company’s KVEA Los Angeles where she has been assistant news director.
Telemundo, which is on the heels of longtime Spanish-language leader Univision, has a chance to get a huge ratings kick with its broadcast of the FIFA World Cup in 2018 in Russia. And while the event is still more than a year away, the NBC Universal-owned network’s marketing strategy is beginning to take shape with the hiring of a new agency to handle the assignment.
It sells three stations — WNBC New York and Telemundo WSNS Chicago and WWSI Philadelphia. Their signals will all channel share with other NBC-owned stations in the markets. Fox and CBS also sold spectrum.
From the beginning of 2017 through April 5, according to iSpot.tv, Hulu has spent $38.3 million in national TV advertising — more than double the $16.2 million it spent over the same time period a year ago. PlayStation Vue has seen its media spend triple this year so far — $37.6 million versus $11.1 million in 2016. Big TV broadcast network spending is generally up as well.
Hulu has beefed up its Spanish-language offerings with two deals unveiled today that secure programming from Sony Pictures Television and co-owner Comcast’s Telemundo.
Univision is still tops in 18-49s in Spanish-language TV but the NBCU-owned network is closing in on total viewers and has seven of the top 10 shows, including No. 1, Hasta Que Te Conoci.
