Television

The Meruelo Group announced that Otto Padron will take the reins of KWHY-TV Channel 22 as President and COO of Meruelo Media Holdings Inc.

InComm’s Telemundo-Quinceañera MasterCard Gift Card has been recognized as the 2012 Best Gift Card Program of the Year at the sixth annual Paybefore Awards, one of the most prestigious recognitions of excellence in the worldwide prepaid and stored value industry.

Telemundo Media announced that Douglas Darfield has been named to the newly-created position of Executive Vice President of Research and Strategic Insights.

Azteca America announced that they will be holding their Upfront presentation in New York on Monday May 14, 2012 between 7pm-10PM at The Top of the Standard in New York City.

NBC Owned Television Stations announced that Manuel Martínez has been named President and General Manager of NBC 6 Miami / WTVJ. Martínez, who will start in his new role immediately, joins the station from Telemundo 51 / WSCV, the Telemundo station in the Miami market, where he has served as President and General Manager since December 2007.

Arm Instructor, Miami resident Gabby Franco is the First Hispanic Woman in participate in the Reality Show “Top Gun” from History Channel.

By Joe Zubizarreta / Zubi Advertising – Zubination Having just watched the pilot for Rob Schneider’s new show, Rob, I am totally disgusted by the way CBS has portrayed a Mexican-American family in an attempt to lure Latinos to general market television. The only thing I can think of is that they wanted to use every stereotype in the book to generate non-Hispanic viewership.

Univision Communications Inc. announced Cristina Schwarz is the new vice president of Programming and Production for Univision Cable Networks. Schwarz, who will dual- report to Univision Cable Networks senior vice president Jessica Rodriguez and Sebastian Trujillo, senior vice president and Operating Manager for Galavisión