Television

The original action-packed series “Lucha Underground,” from Emmy Award®-winning producer Mark Burnett’s United Artists Media Group, Robert Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures will air weekly on UniMás in Spanish

Cinelatino has secured exclusive U.S. Spanish-language rights to transmit The Fénix Film Awards (“Premio Iberoamericano de Cine Fénix”), an inaugural awards show honoring films and filmmakers from the Ibero-American region.

The option to watch TV shows online means no more rushing home to catch the latest episode of a favorite series or staying up later than one wants. And that flexibility is the primary reason for internet television viewing, based on August 2014 research by comScore.

Over the past year, a very notable trend in CivicScience’s data has become apparent with regard to which of these three levers are most influencing the buying and consumption decisions of U.S. adults: advertising on television, advertising on the Internet, or social media “chatter” (comments or recommendations from others).

Telemundo announced the production kick off of its new original Novela, “Tierra de Reyes,” starring Aarón Díaz, Ana Lorena Sánchez, Gonzalo García Vivanco, Kimberly Dos Ramos, Christian de la Campa and Scarlet Gruber, with Fabián Ríos and Sonya Smith as “Cayetana”.

The hour-long program, “Noticentro America,” will air live and exclusively on WAPA’s U.S. sister cable network, WAPA America, Monday-Friday at 8pm ET/5pm PT.

NBCUniversal’s Hispanic cable network mun2 announced that it has appointed Peter Dobrow as Vice President, Communications. He will report to Ruben Mendiola, President of mun2.

Next Monday, October 20 at 10:00 am / 9:00 am C, Azteca America will premiere the new telenovela Secretos del Alma, a story of love and betrayal starring two great Mexican actors: Ivonne Montero and Humberto Zurita with renowned Venezuelan actress Gabriela Vergara in the role of the series’ villain.

Azteca America  announced the premiere of  El Astro, a Brazilian telenovela starring renowned actor Rodrigo Lombardi. 

Hemisphere Media Group, Inc. has secured exclusive rights to air the Dominican Professional Baseball League 2014-2015 season.

Telemundo announced a new campaign, “Conversemos de Tus Finanzas,” in collaboration with Wells Fargo, focused on empowering Hispanics to enhance their financial knowledge and help them to reach their financial goals.

In response to recent ratings irregularities, Nielsen conducted an extensive internal investigation of their systems and processes and uncovered a technical error that impacts national network television ratings over several months.

The Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame named Emilio Azcarraga, President, CEO and Chairman, Grupo Televisa as one of twelve honorees to its class of 2014.

Ladies Week will be hosted by four of the network’s top female sports anchors: Adriana Monsalve, Carolina Guillen, Kary Correa and Carolina Padron. The shows will also feature the participation of ESPN’s Karin Ontiveros, Claudia Trejos and Nelly Simón.

Through education, public awareness and grants to organizations nationwide, Sports 4 Life seeks to effect sustainable improvement to the overall health and development of girls in these communities.

Rentrak has agreed to acquire the U.S. television measurement business of WPP’s Kantar business unit for $98 million in Rentrak common stock.

Univision Communications Inc announced the launch of Premios Univision Deportes (Univision Sports Awards), a sports award show for U.S. Hispanics honoring top athletes and teams from the leagues and sports that Hispanics care about most. 

Programmatic technology and precise digital metrics will change the way multicultural marketing dollars are spent, expert says.

Rather, the quintet of marketers at B&C and Multichannel News’ Hispanic TV Summit Marketing Roundtable, “Driving Growth of Hispanic Audiences,” all described a relentless need to refine their methods.

The array of platforms is vast, many of them with as yet unwritten rules. And it’s tricky to make programming broad enough for a wide audience, while also localizing it in a meaningful way for the various Latin American nationalities.