Television

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Laguna Productions, Inc. to acquire exclusive worldwide transmission rights in perpetuity to 25 Mexican and U.S. Hispanic movie titles. Rights to the films include all forms of transmission, including pay-TV, free-TV, VOD, over-the-top, and digital.

Here, Duncan Southgate, Global Brand Director, Media, explains why marketers should always look beyond simple, generic rankings when deciding which media channels to use.

For Millennials and most modern consumers, television has been a key part of our daily lives — whether it’s looking forward to relaxing and watching a show after a long day at work or cheering on a favorite sports team during the playoffs. However, the rise of technology has changed the way people consume visual content, making it tough for television to compete with the digital world. Could television really be dying a long, slow death? Here are four reasons why digital media is causing the death of television and why marketers should ditch television for digital media.

CNN en Español’s travel show, Destinos, was recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Daytime Emmy® Award for Best Spanish Entertainment Program, at the 45th Daytime Emmy ceremony held in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, California.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises revealed its 2018 Upfront theme, “Beyond Language. Powerful Consumers,” underlying the value of the U.S. Hispanic consumer and Telemundo’s unique ability to tap into this segment’s growing pop culture, economic and political influence.

Cinelatino is set to launch the fast-paced Mexican medical drama series Paramédicos (“Paramedics”) on Sunday, April 29, at 10pm ET/7pm PT & 11pm ET/8pm PT.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced today an affiliation partnership for Entravision’s KMCC-TV with Azteca America, a U.S.-based, Spanish-language network wholly-owned by HC2 Network Inc., a subsidiary of HC2 Holdings, Inc.

Pasiones will kick off its spring lineup with the premiere of the Italian phenomenon Tierra Indomable (“Untamable Land”) on its Latin American feed on Sunday, April 22, 2018, marking the first Italian production to premiere on the network.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises  announced three new hires. Veteran media executive Ronald Day has been appointed to Executive Vice President of Programming for Telemundo Networks, Amanda Calpin has been named Chief Financial Officer for Telemundo Networks and Ignacio Barrera has been named to Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development for Telemundo Global Studios.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced the official inauguration of Telemundo Center, its new global headquarters in Miami, FL. Telemundo Center sets the new standard for Hispanic media as the only next-generation, multimedia production facility with news, sports, entertainment, studios, international and digital all under one roof.

TV Azteca announced a strategic investment and partnership with Vault Analytics.  The deal includes a TV Azteca minority stake in Vault Analytics and will fast-track and broaden Vault’s TV products.

Nielsen and CNN jointly announced that they are expanding their relationship to provide daily national television measurement to CNN en Español. As a result of the new agreement, CNN en Español will leverage Nielsen data (C3/C7) during this year’s upfront season, an annual event during which TV networks preview their upcoming programs to advertisers.

With cord-cutting accelerating and over-the-top (OTT) viewing on the rise, outlays on TV ads will slip 0.5% in 2018 to $69.87 billion. As a result, TV’s share of total US media ad expenditures will drop from 33.9% in 2017 to 31.6% this year.

Jack Myers TomorrowToday forecasts that Hispanic broadcast network TV ad spend will grow at a slightly faster rate than total U.S. broadcast TV ad spend, increasing its share from 11.6% in 2018 to 12.3% in 2020. 

TV advertising can be made much better: better for brands, for networks, for viewers. But this won’t happen until TV advertisers speak directly to TV ad sellers.

The reformatted version of the show is comprised of three new hosts that include Venezuelan actor Yul Bürkle, Colombian actress Luz Estrada, and Mexican-American actress/model Maria Elena Anaya.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced the launch of “El Campeón en Ti” (The Champion Within You), a new company-wide campaign under the banner of its award-winning corporate social responsibility initiative, “El Poder En Ti” (The Power Within You), focused on empowering young Hispanics to achieve their full potential and find their inner champion through sports.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced it has named Krystyna Hall as Vice President of Corporate Communications, effective immediately.

NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises announced a partnership with global video community musical.ly to develop and launch a series of new digital entertainment programs targeting Hispanic members of Generation Z, the post-millennial, predominantly bilingual, tech-native generation.

LBI Media, Inc. announced that it will begin airing Spanish-language programming on its recently purchased full power television station WGEN-TV in the Miami, Florida DMA.