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Television
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?
Badillo named VP of Programming & Production of Tr3s.
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) – the Americas announced new leadership at Tr3s with the appointment of Maria Badillo as Vice President of Programming & Production (P&P) for the US Hispanic network.
CNN Latino to launch.
CNN en Español will launch CNN Latino, a new Spanish language programming block custom made for the U.S. Hispanic market, it was announced by Cynthia Hudson-Fernández, Senior Vice President and General Manager of CNN en Español and Hispanic strategy for CNN/U.S.
Univision transforms Telefutura into UniMás.
Univision Communications Inc. announced the launch of the UniMás Network, the newly transformed TeleFutura. UniMás provides content from Spanish-language producers, including Caracol Televisión, RTI Colombia, and Televisa.
Local Broadcast TV Markets surpass National Time-Shifted Viewing. [REPORT]
TVB released an analysis of time-shifted viewing for the first six weeks of the 2012/13 Primetime broadcast season. The analysis revealed that time-shifted viewing in the nation’s top local markets is outpacing the national average by 26%.
