Television

More than 6.5 million U.S. households – or 5.7 percent of all homes — are not ready for the upcoming transition to all-digital broadcasting and would be unable to receive any television programming at all if the transition occurred today, The Nielsen Company reported today. This is an improvement of more than 1.3 million homes since Nielsen reported readiness status at the end of December.

Grupo Televisa S.A.B. and Univision Communications Inc. today announced that they have amended the current Program License Agreement (“PLA”). In connection with the amended PLA, litigation between the parties underway in Los Angeles federal court has been settled and will be dismissed.

Telemundo Communications Group announced that the network has extended its multi-year deal with Billboard, a premier global music brand, to present the annual Billboard Latin Music Awards, with renowned producer, Tony Mojena continuing as the show’s Executive Producer.

MRG’s new report shows how global developments in “Advanced Video Advertising” (AVA) for set-top boxes will continue to keep TV advertising dominant in global ad markets. By tracking both traditional and interactive TV advertising techniques, it provides an ROI calculation for each of the six most used interactive methods in the global advertising markets for Cable, Telco TV, Terrestrial, and Satellite operations.

In the tiny town of Edna, Texas, in 1951, a field hand named Pete Hernandez murdered his employer after exchanging words in a gritty cantina. From this unremarkable small-town murder emerged a landmark civil rights case that would forever change the lives and legal standing of tens of millions of Americans. A Class Apart tells the little-known story of a band of underdog Mexican-American lawyers who took their case, Hernandez v. Texas, all the way to the Supreme Court, where they successfully challenged Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans.