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Univision News has launched an interactive digital tool designed to help U.S. residents who have applied for citizenship to prepare for the official examination required by the United States Citizenship and Immigration […]

It accuses the cable operator of using its recent merger with Time Warner Cable to force Univision to accept lower rates.

Isaac Lee will be responsible for Univision Cmmunications’ news, entertainment and digital content across platforms, as well as the company’s music efforts.

Borja Echevarría, VP and editor-in-chief for digital at Univision: “It’s impossible to understand the future of this country if you don’t understand it bilingually. It makes no sense for us not to look at both languages.”

On Sunday, four weeks before Clinton will officially be recognized as the Democratic nominee at her party’s convention, she rolled out her first ad on a national Spanish-language broadcast, buying time in the final of the Copa America Centenario, which aired on Univision. The game between Argentina and Chile, a thriller that Chile won on penalty kicks, was expected to draw huge numbers, as the rest of the tournament has.

Targeted to digital users who consume news in English, the new “Univision News” section takes Univision’s original content and a Latino perspective to an English-speaking audience.

When The Root was acquired by Univision a little over a year ago, publisher Donna Byrd said she had already set her sights on a big expansion for the African-American news, opinion and culture site. A year later, The Root has staffed up, built out an in-house video and social team and is preparing for a big TV debut, with a series set to launch in the fourth quarter of this year.

The network’s lead over Telemundo shrinks from 83% to 33% among 18-49s. Its NBCU rival has the top novela with Cielos. But the rivalry will continue to play out over the summer.

Univision, which has a controlling stake in the The Onion website, is launching a platform that will power programmatic ads for The Onion and other websites including Univision Digital, The Root and The A.V. Club. The platform, called Mosaico Trading, will employ first- and second-party data to target display and video ads at Latino and millennial viewers. Mosaico could also potentially be offered to other media companies as well to leverage both the Hispanic and Gen Y audiences across Univision’s digital properties.

María Martínez-Guzmán becomes vice president and executive producer, newsgathering, while Gabriela Tristán has been named vice president and executive producer, news production.

With its new Story House program development unit, whole ownership of Fusion and investment in El Rey Network, Univision Communications has evolved over the last year into a formidable dual-language media power. However, Spanish-language remains the company’s content foundation and that was the emphasis at its upfront event.

The first season of Netflix’s Narcos will air on Univision leading up to the global debut of the second season only on Netflix. And UniMás will air the first season of Netflix’s Spanish-language series Club De Cuervos.

Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications said it would offer advertisers distinct audience niches as part of its ad-sales effort in this year’s “upfront” market, following new demands from Madison Avenue on TV to emulate the targeting ability of digital media.

A new campaign, “Tu Gente. Tu Voz.”, is designed to unify all Univision local newscasts under a common purpose — to be a champion and a voice for Hispanic America.

Story House will offer a series and specials, including a production deal with HBO. It will be led creatively by award-winning producer-director Juan Rendón.

Univision becomes the first Spanish-language channel to sign up for Nielsen’s new National and Local TV Digital Measurement services. It’s no coincidence it comes as the upfront nears.

In a move many in the industry expected, Univision took sole ownership Thursday of Fusion, which launched in 2013 as a joint venture with ABC. In doing so, Univision found a home for some of its recent English-language acquisitions including satirical news site The Onion and the African-American skewing The Root. The two properties will be under The Fusion Media Group. Mark López, EVP of Univision Digital, explains Univision’s English-language strategy.

Ricardo Bilton lays out a few key details about Univision and Fusion now that Disney is out of the picture. First, the millennial site is now part of a new Fusion Media Group division, which also includes The Onion and The Root. Reportedly, Disney and Univision also clashed over the brand’s edginess and “political tone.” But the move, along with Univision’s many recent ones in digital, is costly. Univision is $50 million in the hole to buy Disney out, and meanwhile Fusion had $63.5 million in revenue last year and $37 million in losses.

The initial public offering could raise as much as $1 billion, a team of Bloomberg writers reports, noting that the company is waiting for better market conditions to publicly sell its shares. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG are leading the offering.

Univision won’t say how it came to assume the Disney-owned network’s stake in Fusion — which had been a joint venture — or, assuming it’s a sale, how much it paid. But it does say that it has already replaced ABC in distributing the network, and handling ad sales.

Latin media powerhouse Univision is circling Nick Denton’s cash-hungry Gawker Media. Univision has discussed partnering or investing in the New York-based digital media outfit, which was racing to raise cash ahead of a whopping $140 million legal judgement against it last month.

As the booming U.S. Latino market reshapes everything from branding to prime time TV, the battle to capture Spanish-speakers’ attention is heating up in Denver. For this market’s 790,000 Hispanics, there has historically been one go-to TV source. KCEC, Entravision’s Univision affiliate, was by far the dominant Spanish-language station. Telemundo-owned KDEN trailed from a distance. Lately however, the challenger is on a roll.

No. 2 network Telemundo has the No. 1 program in Cielos, and UniMas has the second-ranked show with its Liga MX coverage. But top-ranked Univision still airs five of the top 10.

Over the last few months, disputes between programmers and distributors  have moved to a new level of conflict with allegations that institutionalized racism at large media companies is driving discriminatory business decisions. The latest involves Univision accusing AT&T of  refusing to pay the company’s Spanish-language stations retransmission fees on a par with its English-language network counterparts in a new contract with U-Verse.

Univision Communications and AT&T agreed Friday evening to extend the access of the Univision network and stations until 1 a.m. ET on Wednesday, March 16. Univision’s other networks will continue to be unavailable. The two companies said they will continue to work to reach agreement on a new contract.

Univision Communications today announced that Jed Meyer has joined the company as executive vice president, corporate research. Meyer will be based in New York and will report to Jessica Rodriguez, […]

Univision and AT&T agreed late Thursday to extend the access of the Univision network and stations brought back for Wednesday night’s political debate until 1 a.m. ET Saturday. Univision’s other networks will continue to be unavailable. The two companies will continue to work to reach agreement on a new retransmission consent contract.

Univision’s new Detector de Mentiras (Lie Detector) is the first U.S.-based Spanish-language fact-checking project. The network launched the fact checker during Wednesday night’s Democratic debate.

Many Republicans view Univision as a hostile news organization, with its unapologetic pro-immigration reform stance and ties to Hillary Clinton. But on Wednesday night the network’s two top anchors, Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, along with Washington Post correspondent Karen Tumulty, tried to shed that image, while also previewing what a potential general election debate might look like between Clinton and Donald Trump.

Wednesday afternoon, Univision requested that AT&T continue to distribute its signal to AT&T’s U-Verse subscribers for 24 hours immediately following the conclusion of Wednesday night’s Washington Post-Univision Democratic Presidential Debate. Univision said it “is hopeful that AT&T will show good faith in the parties’ ongoing [retransmission consent] negotiations by treating Univision’s top-rated Hispanic content on par with its English-language broadcasting counterparts in order for the companies to continue to collaborate in serving the growing U.S. Hispanic community.”

Univision has agreed to temporarily lift its blackout of AT&T U-verse so that the service’s Spanish-language viewers would have access to Wednesday night’s Democratic presidential debate.

AT&T is marketing DirecTV to customers upset that Univision has been blacked out on its U-Verse service, showing the telecom giant’s newfound negotiating leverage.

It took three different statements over three days before AT&T found a satisfactory response to Univision’s charge that it’s engaging in “discriminatory behavior” i their retrans negotiations. AT&T, whose U-Verse TV service lost Univision Friday morning due to a fee fight, said Univision’s allegation is “despicable.”

Univision-owned stations went dark on AT&T’s U-verse platform early Friday, prompting the Spanish-language broadcaster to accuse the telecom giant of “discriminatory behavior” and audience “redlining” in retransmission consent negotiations.

Univision Communications has launched a joint venture with former Telemundo Studios president Patricio Wills to produce exclusive content for Univision sibling channel UniMas and its digital platforms. The focus will be on developing edgy, high-octane series for U.S. Hispanic audiences.