NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced on Tuesday it's planning to bring several of Telemundo's operations together into a new massive, high-tech facility in Miami, just in time to cover World Cup 2018.
The State of the Union presented an opportunity for Microsoft to expand its reach with tech-savvy Latinos, as it launched the Spanish version of Microsoft Pulse in partnership with NBC Universo and Telemundo.
The Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission issued a state report, which found that Connecticut's Spanish-speaking populations, particularly those located in Bridgeport and Danbury, are under-informed about emergency protocols and procedures when it comes to natural disaster response.
Leaders of the conglomerate that runs Donald Trump's golf courses, hotels and other businesses apparently want to bury the hatchet with Hispanic media and have asked to meet with a watchdog group against anti-Latino bias in news and entertainment.
The company is a large standalone Spanish-speaking media outlet but has been in talks for a sale to large English-speaking companies. It's biggest competitor, Telemundo, is backed by media giant Comcast. In hopes of beating ESPN and ABC in World Cup coverage, the company spent half a million on new technology to beat broadcast times of the other two-- it succeeded. The move comes at a time when the future is uncertain and the station may need the success to attract a sale.
The proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable (the nation's second largest cable provider) by Comcast (the first) has attracted criticism and consternation from media advocates, as well as some companies like Netflix and Charter. As of this week, you can Latino television giant Univision to the list of companies that are concerned about the merger.
Hispanicize 2014 kicked off this week appropriately with a look at the state of Hispanic journalism. The session revealed the results of the first ever survey of U.S. Latino journalists and included an in depth discussion of the changing media and technology landscape, and how it affects Latinos.
CNN is shuttering its CNN Latino division, becoming the second mainstream media outlet to shutter its Latino-focused news subsidiary in as many months this year.
Spanish language broadcast network Univision and U.S. showbiz publication Variety announced a new Spanish-based entertainment news outlet, "Variety Latino - Powered by Univision," Tuesday. The joint venture is currently slated for a Feb. 27 debut.
Spanish speakers in the United States will be gaining a fresh, reliant source of information as Mexican independent news gathering website SDPnoticias.com announced Wednesday that it would be launching a new arm in the United States in the summer of 2014.
Last November, NBC announced it was going to shut down NBC Latino, the Latino-focused news site that only launched in the summer of 2012. Early in 2014, NBC quietly closed NBC Latino's offices, but Latino journalists and opinion writers have had many things to say about it.
Media distribution company Olympusat and New York-based BuenaVision announced an deal Tuesday to take BuenaVision programming national, bringing exclusive shows from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Latin America to the entire United States.
Spanish language media giant Univision will be available on Canada's cable and satellite platforms in a new channel called Univision Canada, in a new push to reach Canada's growing population of Spanish speakers.
Latino tech and media innovator Bill Gato was named CEO of Latino press release distribution service Hispanicize Wire on Monday, rejoining the Latino-centric PR and wire service firm that he helped put together years ago.
The station was erected as KCOR-TV in 1955, but was sold and became KWEX-DT. The building in now facing total demolition; 50-60 percent of the building has already been torn down, but the remaining portion of the structure has temporarily been secured by a court order.
