Galavisión Brings Home Regional Emmys.

Galavisión received two prestigious Emmy awards for its programs VideoMix con Mike Robles and Con Cierta Intimidad at the 25th annual Suncoast Chapter Regional Emmy Awards ceremony held by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Miami on December 1, 2001.

Galavisión won two out of the three Emmy awards presented by the Suncoast Chapter in the entertainment category. Ninety-two Emmy winners were selected from a total of eight hundred and four entries received from eleven television markets for the awards competition. The awards ceremony recognized the winners of both English and Spanish programs as well as individual achievements

“It is a great honor to have two of our Galavisión U.S. produced youth programs and several members of our talented staff selected as winners of Emmys, the most prestigious distinctions bestowed in the television industry,” said Lucia Ballas Traynor, Vice President and General Manager of Galavisión. “We are thrilled that our innovative bicultural programming, which reflects young Hispanics’ unique U.S. experience and Latin heritage like nothing else on television, is being recognized by these awards.”

VideoMix host and executive producer Mike Robles and producer Marcela Brito were recognized with an Emmy for their outstanding contribution to the program. VideoMix con Mike Robles is a weekly hour-long Galavisión music video show shot on location in different cities across the United States. During each program, Robles introduces the latest music videos and presents top songs from Billboard’s Top 40 Hot Latin Tracks to hip-hop and alternative music. Every week, a well-known musical artist appears as a special guest of the show.

Galavisión’s programming vice president Margarita Black and producer Vanessa Pombo brought home another Emmy for the production of Con Cierta Intimidad, a weekly one hour musical program that showcases popular Latin recording stars performing their best songs in an intimate setting. Con Cierta Intimidad, similar to MTV’s Unplugged series, is taped in a small studio before a live audience and is designed to feel as though the concert is taking place in the viewer’s living room.