Univision’s upfront presentation this year was a sea of change from last year’s, when tensions with programming partner Grupo Televisa were more than evident.

Unlike last year, this time Televisa offered up its talent for the star-studded celebration –including marketing pop phenomenon Rebelde (What is it with these kids anyway? they cannot even sing!).

Also, we spotted Haim Saban entering and leaving the presentation with Alfonso de Angoitia, Azcarraga’s right hand side man.

However, during a press conference, Univision’s new chief Joe Uva had no comment at a reporter’s question about a pending litigation with Televisa and the upcoming federal jury trial on October 31, which revolves around Univision’s alleged programming license violation. Another contentious topic, online rights, wes also out of bounds: Mr. Uva had no comment.

“Univision executives will not discuss matters related to pending litigations, so if your questions are related to that, please abstain,” was the quick intervention from Univision’s always efficient CMO.

Forget Barbara Bermudo and Jackie Guerrido. This afternoon, during Univision’s upfront presentation at Time Warner Center, the ones making heads turn were some top media and advertising executives who have been shedding some serious pounds lately to look good and slim for the occasion.

Kudos to Manny Vidal, Alex Lopez-Negrete and Otto Padron for losing those extra pounds. What’s their secret, really? It’s gotta be the exercise and excess work cause they were all nibbling at the mini empanadas as if there was no tomorrow.

One of these characters (pardon, but will not say which) said he’s still working on losing some more weight: “I will not stop until the gay guys start chasing me!”. Ay, ay, ay!