Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. and Telemundo Communications Group Inc. announced an agreement which enables Telemundo to broadcast in the U.S. all of the soccer matches played at the home stadiums of six of Mexico’s premiere teams. These rights also include matches that would involve these teams from the playoffs, semifinals and finals of the Mexican National Championship.
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Harlem Globetrotters signs first-ever Puerto Rican Player.
The World Famous Harlem Globetrotters have signed the first Puerto Rican-born player in the team’s storied history, inking 6-8 dunking sensation Orlando “El Gato” Melendez. El Gato, a native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, and a former North Carolina Tar Heel, will join four other Globetrotter rookies as the team opens training camp in New York on Monday, Sept. 29.
ESPN Films premieres first Spanish-language Film.
ESPN Films will premiere JC Chávez, the first Spanish-language film under the ESPN Films brand, Saturday, September 27 at 10 p.m. EDT on ESPN Deportes and ESPN Classic. JC Chávez, a film about the feats of Julio César Chávez, undisputedly one of the best Latin boxers of all times, will air as part of the company’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming line-up.
Lou Dobbs must be horrified…
The son of undocumented Mexican immigrants has just done the unexpected at the 2008 Beijing Olympics: winning a Gold Medal in freestyle wrestling. Henry Cejudo, who moved around a lot growing up in the U.S., and went straight from high school to competitive international wrestling has just done the unthinkable! Published by Manny Gonzalez. To view El Blog CLICK above.
Telemundo broadcast of 2008 Beijing Olympics delivers 12M viewers.
Telemundo Communications Group announced results for its ten-day viewership of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. According to Nielsen Media Research, Telemundo’s coverage of the games thru 8/17/08 which equaled 96 hours, was watched by 12 million unique Persons 2 plus which now has surpassed the ’04 Athens cumulative audience (10.8 M) by 12%.
