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From Latin Jazz and Mambo to Salsa, Tejano, Chicano Rock, Latin pop, and Reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on Jazz, Hip Hop, Rhythm and Blues and Rock and Roll – and on all of American culture.

ESPN Deportes and the World Domino Federation presented the VI World Domino Championship at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. Thursday, July 10 – Saturday, July 12. This year’s championship broke the Guinness World Record for “Most People Playing Dominoes,” with 332 players helping surpass the previous record of 300. The three-day event gathered over 554 domino enthusiasts, with representation from nine countries from Latin America, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Russia and the United States.

Puerto Rico’s first public television station, TUTV (WIPR-TV), announced the station’s evolution to high definition digital production, with the inauguration of modern, state-of-the-art facilities.

This summer, Olympic Games 2008 fever comes to Telemundo exclusively, live in Spanish and directly from Beijing, China. Covering a wide variety of Hispanics’ favorite sports, the Spanish-language network kicks off its summer Olympic broadcast on Wednesday, August 6 and continues through Sunday, August 24. In its second Olympic broadcast, Telemundo will offer an unprecedented 380+ hours of exclusive coverage through its standard daily broadcast schedule ˆ 2am to 6am ET/PT and 8am to 10am ET/PT – as well as its 24/7 broadband-exclusive video coverage in its exclusive webpage.