According to El Nuevo Dia, the gossip show “La Comay” is gone from WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico.
The “La Comay” Show is the bedrock of the high ratings WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico has enjoyed.
A casualty of social media and its own reporting.
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Local TV Dollars may help Auto Industry Burn Rubber in 2013.
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WAPA putting La Comay on tape delay
WAPA TV’s “SuperXclusivo” and its puppet host La Comay are being on tape delay after years of leading the local TV ratings as a live show.
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National Hispanic Organizations join boycott of WAPA-TV/WAPA America gossip show La Comay.
The National Puerto Rican Coalition Inc. (NPRC), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), the National Conference of Puerto Rican Women, Inc. (NACOPRW), and The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL) join the Puerto Rican community on the Island and the mainland in support of a boycott against WAPA TV/WAPA America’s gossip show SuperXclusivo. The show is the target of a community boycott ignited by the most recent defamatory comments made by its main character La Comay (gossip guru Antulio “Kobbo” Santarrosa) regarding the brutal killing of publicist José Enrique Gómez Saladín.
La Comay & Me: what a Puerto Rican creative director living in the U.S. thinks of the gossip show.
There more I spoke to creative people in the industry, the more I heard complaints about “La Comay”. Bullying a local weather reporter because of her weight, calling local artists “patos” (equivalent of “fags”), slandering public figures, calling black people monkeys, denigrating Dominicans who reside in Puerto Rico; the list of complaints was endless and I wondered what had happened to the yet not perfect but dynamic and inclusive industry in which I had partially grown up?
