Television

Hispanic TV Summit Award for Corporate Leadership in Hispanic Television & Video.  Altice USA has been both a trailblazer and a visionary in providing the local and national Hispanic community access to Spanish-language news and entertainment, as well as providing innovative packaging of video and high-speed-data products.  By: MCN Staff / Courtesy of MultiChannel News and Broadcasting & Cable

Facing OTT competition, traditional providers add streaming, soup up set-tops.  By: George Winslow / Courtesy of MultiChannel News and Broadcasting & Cable

Actor Rafael Amaya: Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic TV.  Star of ‘El Señor de los Cielos’ brings Nielsen sizzle to Telemundo’s ‘Super Series’.  Courtesy of MultiChannel News and Broadcasting & Cable

But Spanish-language content on some major OTT packages is still limited.  By: George Winslow.  Courtesy of MultiChannel News and Broadcasting & Cable

With Hispanic Heritage Month in full swing, the Immigrant Archive Project and DishLATINO are teaming up to digitally showcase the stories of Latino immigrants who left their home countries to build a new life in the United States.

“Caer en Tentación” will air on the Univision Network Monday through Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT (9 p.m. CT) starting October 16th.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced that it has entered into a new affiliation agreement and a new proxy agreement with Univision Communications Inc. relating to the company’s Univision and UniMás network affiliate television stations.

This could be a daunting headline: “TV advertising hasn’t yet seen real competition from digital.”  by Wayne Friedman

Cinelatino has just unveiled a comprehensive rebrand featuring a new on-air graphics package and an expansive color palette system to reinforce the network’s position as the leading Spanish-language movie channel.

With the new television season in the U.S. now upon us, viewers are able to connect with new program offerings as well as old favorites. While much focus will be on the shows themselves, Nielsen took a look at insights surrounding the advertising inventory—from how much money is spent on advertising over platforms to the commercial ratings lifts of ads beyond seven days to how marketers are leveraging branded integrations.

Beginning in October, former CNN International Host Sasha Rionda will be anchoring a new Spanish-language television show called Café Con America.

NBCUniversal/Telemundo and América Móvil jointly submitted to the Mexican Football Federation bids for the Mexico National Team media rights, one for the United States, and the other for the rest of the world, for two World Cup cycles. The bids include rights to all men’s and women’s Mexico National Team divisions.

Azteca America announced the premiere of”Vis a Vis: Encarcelada”, a thriller that reflects the daily struggle of a woman attempting to survive in the stifling world of prison, where she is serving a seven-year sentence.

Entravision Communications Corporation announced that it has promoted Erin Voden to Senior Vice President of Integrated Marketing Solutions in Washington, D.C., effective immediately.

NBCUniversal Owned Television stations, a division of NBCUniversal, announced that Stacy Owen has been named President and General Manager of the Bay Area NBC and Telemundo-owned stations, KNTV and KSTS.

If you believe the misconception that local news has fallen out of favor, think again. In actuality, news viewing increased from 2015 to 2016 and has shown continued growth in early 2017.

ZGS gave up its spectrum for the Washington, D.C. market earlier this year in the auction which gave us the ability to take back the Telemundo affiliation for this market. The new Telemundo-owned station in Washington, DC will launch in December 2017.

Cinelatino is set to premiere its first original investigative docuseries, “Expedientes Criminales” (“Criminal Case Files”), about the most notorious organized crime cases in Central America.

“Hoy voy a cambiar” (Today I’m going to change), a primetime bio-series that chronicles the life of the singer and actress Lupita D’Alessio, will air on Univision Monday through Friday at 10 p.m. ET/PT (9 p.m. CT) starting September 11th.

EstrellaTV announced that it will be premiering the newest season of its late night talk show “Noches Con Platanito” on September 5, 2017.