Television

Jesse Losada, one of the most renowned sports broadcasters in Hispanic television, joins FOX Deportes to serve as its play-by-play announcer for NFL and College Football and blow-by-blow announcer for Premier Boxing Champions.

Hearst Television Inc. is launching a new weekly program hosted by acclaimed political commentator, author, national radio host and entrepreneur Fernando Espuelas.

NBCUniversal named Cesar Conde to the newly created position of Chairman, NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.  NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, which is being added to his responsibilities, includes the Telemundo Network, NBC Universo Cable Network, Telemundo International, Telemundo Local Stations, Telemundo Digital Media and Emerging Business and NBC Deportes. Conde begins October 12 and will continue to report to Steve Burke, CEO, NBCUniversal.

The concern on Wall Street is that increasing numbers of subscribers are ‘“cord-cutting” – abandoning cable altogether or opting for slimmer channel packages in favor of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus. Investors also are worried that media companies aren’t earning enough from SVOD platforms to compensate. Reliable measurement of those platforms is needed to determine whether that’s true.  By Steve Hasker, Global President, and Glenn Enoch, SVP, Audience Insights

For the first time in its history, the network will air the premiere simultaneously on television, Video On Demand, Telemundo.com, Twitter, Periscope and YouTube.

NBCUniversal Hispanic Group’s Fluency Productions announced Samsung and Toyota will support the release of its next feature film, the highly anticipated English-language sci-fi thriller REVERSION.

Merle will oversee UCI’s marketing asset management process, branding, brand extension marketing, and the marketing of UCI’s research.

Morales will be responsible for ensuring consistency of brand, strategic messaging, as well as promotional and marketing strategy across UCI’s local media stations.

NBC UNIVERSO announced that Comcast has launched NBC UNIVERSO in HD.

Azteca America announced the appointment of Craig A. Geller to Executive Vice President, Network Sales and Digital, effective immediately. Geller will report to Manuel Abud, President and CEO, Azteca America, and will be based in New York.

The Paley Center for Media hosted an intimate evening on Tuesday, September 8th honoring Mario Kreutzberger

And as they have for many falls, audiences will take to Twitter and other social media to discuss, pass judgement or just ignore the new shows.

TV networks haven’t had the easiest summer. Ratings haven’t been great, though some, like HGTV and Discovery, have done pretty well. The upfront was not as strong as hoped, though rumors are that scatter sales are going pretty well. Finally, Wall Street has been particularly tough on TV companies and is now concerned that carriage fees from cable and satellite companies are going to go into a decline sooner than most had thought.

Local TV stations around the country are looking forward to a banner year in 2016, when spending on political advertising is expected to soar. As a big fan of political commercials, I say: Bring ’em on.

The San Francisco Giants and broadcast partners NBC Bay Area, Telemundo 48 Area de la Bahia (KSTS) and CSN Bay Area will mark this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month with a first-time, live, Spanish- language telecast of a Giants’ game. 

Belia Jimenez has been named to Vice President of Corporate Research at Univision Communications Inc. (UCI).

ESPN Deportes will offer exclusive coverage of 2015 FIBA Americas.

Social media activity about live TV programming ebbs and flows as each program airs, signaling, according to recent research, how engaged the general audience is with what they’re watching.

MundoMax, the newly-rebranded U.S.-based Spanish-language broadcast network 100% owned and operated by media conglomerate RCN Television Group, and Meruelo Media, announced an enhanced partnership in Los Angeles and Houston.

Telemundo 51 Fresno / KNSO announced that it’s first-ever local newscast – Noticiero Telemundo Valle Central – is scheduled to begin airing on Tuesday, September 1st.