Television

IMAGINA US and Juan Camilo Ferrand jointly announced the launch of THE STORY NEST, a new company that will develop scripted content in Spanish for the U.S. and Latin America.

Spanish-language broadcast network MundoFox announced that it is now available to Time Warner Cable digital subscribers in the New York metro area.

Comcast and Univision Communications Inc. announced they have reached a long-term agreement for Comcast to distribute Univision Deportes Network (UDN) to XFINITY TV customers who subscribe to its Digital Preferred or XFINITY Latino levels of service.

Telemundo announced multiplatform sponsorship initiatives with Toyota, Revlon and T-Mobile that will be part of its new reality competition series, “Yo Soy El Artista.” Hosted by international star Lucero, the revolutionary program will debut on Sunday, September 14 at 8PM/7C.

Cowboy Mining follows the crew at Globexplore Drilling as they drill thousands of feet below the earth’s surface to hit apple-sized targets delivering valuable mineral samples of gold, silver, copper and other high-value minerals so that the next “world-class” discovery can be made.

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the official sponsors for its highly anticipated singing reality competition, “Va Por Ti” (This One’s For You) , a co-production of Televisa and Univision.

Through the contest “Amo Mi Isla” (I Love My Island), WAPA TV is searching for a viewer-generated song that highlights the island’s positive qualities to be the station’s next official jingle.

Telemundo announced the premiere of its new national weekend newscast, “Noticiero Telemundo Fin de Semana,” on Saturday, October 4 at 5 pm/4 C.

Deportes Telemundo ushers the start of the new football season with its special “NFL Kickoff 2014 Presented By Xbox” from Seattle, Washington this Saturday, September 6 at 4:30 PM/3:30 C, featuring the stellar team of Karim Mendiburu, Ana Jurka, Leti Coo and Edgar Lopez.

Telemundo 40 announced an expansion to its local news operation designed to better serve the local Hispanic community in the Rio Grande Valley region.

Telemundo announced its first-ever social media influencer summit, dubbed #YoSoyelInfluencer, as part of the reality series, “Yo Soy El Arista” (“I am the Artist”), premiering Sunday, September 14 at 8 pm/7c.

WAPA America has reached an agreement with Nielsen to become a nationally-rated cable network. WAPA America is the cable arm of WAPA-TV, Puerto Rico. WAPA America will be reported in Nielsen’s national data beginning as of August 2014, to be available on September 28.

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. entered into an agreement with Laguna Productions to acquire exclusive worldwide transmission rights in perpetuity to 100 Mexican and U.S. Hispanic movie titles.

El Rey Network puts its spin on lucha with “Lucha Underground”, an original action-packed series from Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Burnett’s One Three Media.

Hosted by international star Lucero, the reality show will air simultaneously in the U.S. on Telemundo and throughout Latin America on the cable networks E! and Telemundo Internacional. 

Blanca Soto stars in “Señora Acero,” along with an excellent cast including Andrés Palacios, Rebecca Jones, Litzy and special guest, Damián Alcázar.

UVideos, the bilingual digital video destination for Univision Communications, Inc. (UCI) announced an expansion of its content offerings  as well as providing digital-only extensions of some of Univision Network’s top shows. 

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. secured exclusive rights to air the international friendly between the national soccer teams of El Salvador and the Dominican Republic.

Fox Hispanic Media (FHM) executive Juan Vallejo has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales, effective immediately.  Vallejo has risen through the ranks at FHM, originally joining the team as an Account Executive and most recently having served as Vice President – a position he held since 2011.  

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the new season 2014-15 programming line-ups for its Univision Network and UniMás broadcast and Galavisión cable networks.