Univision

Univision’s Fusion Media Group introduced a website dedicated to covering e-sports, its first new media property since buying bankrupt Gawker Media last year. Editors of the sports website Deadspin and gaming-themed Kotaku will run the new publication, called Compete, starting with two fulltime writers who will cover the news and culture of competitive video gaming. Gillette, the razor maker owned by Procter & Gamble, will be the sole advertiser for the first six months.

Univision’s newsmagazine Primer Impacto (First Impact) welcomes a new co-host: Michelle Galván will join Pamela Silva Conde at the anchor desk beginning Monday, March 13. Primer Impacto airs Monday through […]

It’s the latest broadcaster to make public its take from the sale of spectrum to wireless providers. This sale brings the total money received that’s been reported so far to $1.6 billion out of a $10 billion total.

Univision will bring the live stream for select matches from Univision Deportes’ portfolio of Mexican soccer league Liga MX to English-language fans via Facebook Live this season. Kicking off Saturday, […]

Raju Narisetti, CEO of Univision’s Gizmodo Media Group (renamed from Gawker Media Group), shares the broad strokes of the company’s strategy. It involves back-end consolidation, e-commerce, less editorial duplication and a goal to develop television shows from its sites.

A judge temporarily assigned to the Univision-Charter Communications retrans case said Thursday that she will issue an order that Univision’s networks and stations had to be restored on Charter Spectrum for seven days, expiring on Feb. 9, when the judge permanently assigned to the litigation is back in court. For those seven days that it is carrying Univision, Charter will be required to post a bond covering the actual market value of Univision’s programming, rather than the rates that Charter had been paying under its recently expired retrans contract. Univision said it “remains ready and willing to meet at any time with Charter Spectrum to engage in comprehensive, good-faith negotiations for the long-term carriage of our stations and networks.”

Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna, the latenight edition of Univision’s national newscast, is airing live from Washington at 11:30 p.m.  for the first 100 days of the Trump administration. Enrique Acevedo, […]

Univision Communications’ tense standoff over carriage fees paid by cable operator Charter Communications shifted into high gear late Tuesday when several million homes in the U.S. with Charter-Spectrum service abruptly lost access to Univision’s popular Spanish-language television channels.

Univision’s long-running battle over carriage terms with Charter Communications is about to affect the No. 2 cable company’s customers, the Spanish language broadcaster is preparing to warn subscribers.

Created in partnership with immi.org, the new legal assistance search tool is geared to immigrants. 

The move is a promotion for the news director of Univision’s Chicago outlet. 

Comcast and Univision have renewed their distribution agreement for carriage of Univision’s Spanish-language broadcast and cable networks as well as its owned-and-operated stations. The deal covers Univision, UniMás and Galavisión as well as the O&Os.

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.

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.”

NBCUniversal has combined management of its two TV stations in Chicago, with WMAQ GM David Doebler now overseeing both the O&O and its Spanish-language Telemundo sister station, WSNS.

Students as young as 12 years-old are writing, shooting, editing and starring in videos that have been shown in news programs on Univision-owned WXTV New York. It’s all part of a project started by Univision Communications, to open media centers in schools across the U.S.

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.

Univision Bay Area, part of Univision Communications, today announced a new state-of-the-art facility in San Jose, Calif., part of the San Francisco DMA (6). The new location houses the studios […]

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.

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 […]

Tipsters say that Univision Communications won’t conduct its public offering in 2016 as expected. Univision’s board is said to have met last week and decided that market conditions aren’t ideal.

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).

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.

Univision, which bought Gawker Media last month, believed that it was obligated to delete the posts because it did not assume Gawker’s liabilities, according to a memo.

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.

Univision News today announced that Patsy Loris has been promoted to executive vice president of news and executive news director. In her new role, Loris will now lead the programming […]

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 […]

Gawker.com is shutting down, marking the final chapter for a pioneer in online media and one of the most controversial publishers on the web. Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, told the site’s staff that it will end operations next week, according to a post on its website. It’s unclear whether Gawker.com’s archives will still be available, it said.

Gawker Media, whose fierce independence afforded it an unsparing approach to web journalism that influenced news organizations across the internet and the wider media world, was sold to Univision for $135 million at auction on Tuesday, according to two people with direct knowledge of the deal who spoke on condition of anonymity because it had not been made public.

Univision Holdings has offered to acquire Gawker Media, challenging a $90 million stalking horse bid from media company Ziff Davis in the auction for the U.S. internet publisher, people familiar with the matter said. Univision’s bid for Gawker illustrates how the U.S. Spanish-language broadcaster is seeking to expand its digital media properties, and is not shying away from a news brand that has often courted controversy to build a cult readership.

TV station groups are realizing that broadcasting is no longer enough — that, while it may be a solid business, it is no longer a great growth business. So they are looking to reinvent themselves by moving into new businesses like digital media and programming that can provide some upside.

Plans for Univision’s public offering have been back and forth for about a year now, but  sources say the talk is now focused on a fall launch. Univision — backed by Saban Media Group, Providence Equity, TPG and Thomas H. Lee Partners — first announced plans to go public a year ago.