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Univision Communications Inc. announced plans to launch PrendeTV, the only streaming service created exclusively for the U.S. Hispanic audience featuring free, premium 100% Spanish-language programming.

Searchlight III UTD and ForgeLight‘s acquisition of a majority stake of Univision Holdings formally closed. As such, Searchlight, a private investment firm founded by CEO Wade Davis, and associated entity, ForgeLight — an operating and investment company focused on the media and consumer technology sectors — are now the holders of shares in Univision previously held by Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, TPG, Thomas H. Lee Partners, and Saban Capital Group.  As expected, Davis assumed Univision’s Chief Executive chair from Vince Sadusky.  What wasn’t expected: a major house cleaning in Univision’s C-Suite.  By Adam R Jacobson – Editor-in-Chief, Radio + Television Business Report

Univision’s TUDN, the multimedia sports brand of Univision Communications Incy announced its regular season coverage of Liga MX’s Guardianes 2021, featuring more than 100 live matches available across its linear and digital platforms from Mexico’s top-tier fútbol competition.

Why brands should include their customers’ offline activity in marketing attribution analysis

HispanicAd in association with Adam R Jacobson are proud to announce the availability of the 2020 Hispanic TV Upront Report for our readers.

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Telemundo Deportes announced the expansion of its bi-weekly video podcast TyM+ to a daily digital show as of January 4th, 2021. Leveraging the 15-year legacy of its sports entertainment show, Titulares y Más, the network has reimagined the popular show’s weekday edition as a digital-only property designed to cater to an increasingly younger, bilingual and multiplatform audience.

Recent innovations in TV are providing more valuable options to the ad buying process and promise to improve the consumer experience. Advertisers now have many choices when it comes to advertising. From new streaming platforms to rapid innovation in advanced TV, advertisers now have more ways of getting in front of audiences in an addressable way and networks have the ability to unlock more premium inventory.

Telemundo announced the premiere date for the new romantic comedy series, La Suerte de Loli (Loli’s Fate)

As first reported by Inside Radio, Nielsen will no longer include the ratings for non-subscribing radio stations in the summary dataset that fuels the major buying systems used by agencies and advertisers. The new policy goes into effect in 2021 and ad agencies are still figuring out how to deal with not having a view of the total market when placing ad buys.

America is in the midst of a demographic transition. Today, 41% of the U.S. population is racially and ethnically diverse, and people are increasingly exploring and defining their personal identities. As the U.S. diversifies, there is a unique opportunity to meet America’s expanding entertainment tastes.

When people around the world retreated to their homes as the COVID-19 pandemic set in early this year, we knew that video consumption, particularly TV usage, would spike. But at the same time, we knew that consumption would gradually return to seasonal averages. Seeing that consumption rise and then normalize during the workday, however, was somewhat unexpected, particularly among remote professionals and managers. But that is the new media consumption reality.

The medium is a major linchpin for cultivating relationships and serving communities

A Latino-led management group headed by Fuse Media CEO Miguel “Mike” Roggero has acquired a majority, controlling interest in Fuse Media. 

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. announced that Elizabeth Randall will join the company as Senior Vice President of Digital Strategy & Development.

Anchors Gabriela Frias and Nacho Giron will lead the network’s new programs from Mexico City and Buenos Aires.

As the industry prepares for the end of third-party cookies, marketers must adopt an identifier that works across media

With profits from linear TV shrinking, sports programmers, distributors and leagues should explore new business models.

As the old saying goes, “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” This is especially true in radio selling and buying, where a reliance on expensive ratings data and audience demos leads to buys made on the description of an audience rather than the actions of an audience.

Univision Communications, Inc. announced that it has exited its minority position in El Rey Network (“El Rey”), the English-language entertainment cable network and production studio created by Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures.

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. announced that effective December 31, 2020, Javier Maynulet is stepping down  as President and General Manager of WAPA Televisión in Puerto. The company has named Jorge Hidalgo President and General Manager.