Category Archives: Telemundo

Ooops.Telemundo Sells 8-Month-Old Interview as ‘Fresh’ News

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

It’s amazing what a television outlet would do to beat its competitors. Take Telemundo Puerto Rico’s Dando Candela, which earlier this week (June 13) promised viewers an ¡exclusive! ¡amazing! ¡historic! interview by reporter Yulianna Vargas with Kobbo Santarrosa, the TV … Continue reading →

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The Parties and the Fun Behind the 2013 Hispanic TV Upfronts

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

This is exhausting! In addition to covering this week’s Hispanic TV Upfronts for these guys and these guys, I had to save some juicy details for the not-so-serious side of the 3-day-marathon of parties, parties and parties, programming presentations, interviews … Continue reading →

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NBCU Hijacked Univision’s Upfront with a Van Full of Data

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

This blogger is so tired from all this partying busy this week, that a proper upfront round-up will not come until the weekend (sit tight.) However, I thought you’d like to know that barely minutes after Univision wrapped its upfront presentation … Continue reading →

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Three Years Later, Hispanic TV Still Reluctant to Say ‘Tetas’

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

A few years ago, I wrote a story about how Telemundo decided to do away with the word ‘tetas’ in the promos around Sin tetas no hay paraíso, a popular Colombian telenovela about young girls and their obsession with getting breast implants. Instead … Continue reading →

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mun2 Really Knows How to Get me Out of Bed at 8:00 am

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

mun2 on Tuesday unveiled its 2013-2014 programming line up at a morning press conference in Manhattan. And just to make sure this blogger would get out of bed so early in the morning, it brought in tacos and the taqueros who make … Continue reading →

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So… Romney Got a Fake Tan to Look Like These People?

Posted on September 22, 2012 by

Unless you live under a tanning bed rock, you’ve surely read by now all about the alleged fake tan sported by Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at this week’s Meet the Candidate forum on Univision. [Or, as Wonkette put it so appropriately: How Romney donned a brown … Continue reading →

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Which TV Network is the ‘Hispanic Hollywood’? Executives Managed to Confuse this Blogger

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Hispanic TV upfront week is a wonderful thing, especially when you get the chance to hear all kinds of wonderful pitches by competing networks. Tuesday morning, for example, I learned from Univision’s President César Conde that Televisa is actually the … Continue reading →

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OMG, You Guys! The Strauss-Kahn-Diallo Saga Comes to Telemundo… Well, Not Really

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

I though this was going to be yet another bleak week, but then I remembered Telemundo’s Una Maid en Manhattan premieres tonight (8:00 PM/ET) on the Telemundo channel. In a nutshell, this is the story of a terribly-good-looking hotel maid … Continue reading →

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Hispanic marketing according to Jencarlos Canela

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

There is nothing more refreshing than spending some time with a 23-year-old U.S.-born Latino and hear his take on Hispanic media and marketing… Oh, and if such a 23-year-old is terribly good looking, well, all the better. On Tuesday, I … Continue reading →

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Cristina Saralegui Thanks Don Johnson for the Opportunity to Work at Telemundo: LOL

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

OK this is one of those situations in which you had to be there to enjoy the moment… Fortunately for you, readers, I was there, when Cristina Saralegui took to the state at the Telemundo upfront this week in Manhattan … Continue reading →

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What Nobody Has Told You About Don Browne’s Leaving Telemundo

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

Barely one minute after NBC Universal broke the news online about Don Browne’s retirement as head of Telemundo, hundreds of Tweets and Facebook messages (mostly by myself) propagated the news throughout the Web… So I’m not going to bother you … Continue reading →

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Thank you, mun2 for the Salsa, But…

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

For a television network that is great at doing away with stereotypes, why not treat your guests to something less picante? How about a nice little bottle of Dom Perignon or a couple cans of fine Beluga? I mean, I’m … Continue reading →

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Hugo Chávez Thinks ’12 Corazones’ Reduces Relationships to Genitals. I Beg to Differ

Posted on January 18, 2011 by

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know by now Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez has banned a bunch of television shows, including two of Telemundo’s blockbusters, Caso Cerrado and 12 Corazones, denouncing them as “degrading” and even claiming the latter … Continue reading →

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National Latino Media Coalition Thinks ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX Not Diverse. Thank God for Hispanic TV

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

This week the National Latino Media Coalition (NLMC) scolded the nation’s top broadcast networks for not embracing diversity (i.e. mostly for failing to employ more Latinos in front of and behind the camera.) In a press conference on Tuesday in … Continue reading →

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Mexican Wins Miss Universe Title. Americans Fret Over How Many Babies She’ll be Dropping

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

Despite the above costume (or perhaps because of it) a young Mexican holds the title of this year’s Miss Universe. A native of Guadalajara, Jimena Navarrete is only 22 and expected to move to New York City some time soon… … Continue reading →

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