Media

George Lopez, the man, was third in a short lineage of Hispanic performers to star in a mainstream television show. He has impressive company. Only Desi Arnaz and Freddie Prinze have achieved the same. As Freddie Prinze Jr. has stated, “Desi unlocked the door, my dad opened it and George kicked it down.” Freddie Prinze Jr. was the fourth on this list – unfortunately, his show was cancelled after only one season.

The Roof Records, under the direction of Latin Entertainment Entrepreneur, Anthony Pérez, now believes that the new movement in Urban Music is “Mambo de calle” (Mambo of the streets), an explosive mix of various roots of merengue, adapted to modern times.

Univision Communications Inc. incorporated user-generated videos and testimonials into the heart of its 2007 Upfront presentation – themed “I ? Univision” – to demonstrate the Company’s unique relationship with its audiences. The hottest Univision stars were joined by ‘Team Univision,’ a group of viewers from across the country, as well as superstars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and Latin pop sensation RBD in New York to unveil programming schedules for the Univision Network, TeleFutura Network and Galavisión Network for the 2007-2008 season.

Ten years after launching as the first national Spanish-language sports network in the United States, and four years since becoming the lone Hispanic cable sports programmer to be fully measured by Nielsen, Fox Sports en Español has evolved into a dominant sports brand in Spanish-language television. Hosting its seventh upfront presentation before an audience of nearly 1,000 media and advertising professionals, Fox Sports en Español served up a powerful combination of exclusive live sports programming and best-in-class multiple content delivery platform offerings that position it to capture an even greater share of viewers and advertisers in BY’08.

The advent of Web 2.0 – the ability of people to use a range of information and communication technology as a platform to express themselves online and participate in the commons of cyberspace – is often heralded as the next phase of the information society. Yet little is known about which segments of the population are inclined to make robust use of information technology and which aren’t.

With that in mind, the Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a survey designed to classify Americans into different groups of technology users. We developed our typology along three dimensions of people’s relationship to information and communications technology (ICT)