Posts Tagged ‘univision’
Local Univision Reporter Miriam Ayala Sues Boss
10:26 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · New York City| TV| race · Comments Off
30 Jul 2008
Local New York Univision reporter Miriam Ayala filed a federal lawsuit against the local Univision station (channel 41) and the larger network, claiming that she was passed over for plum positions anchoring and on good stories because she wasn’t light skinned enough, young enough or pretty enough.
The Federal Civil Rights lawsuit, (which you can read via TMZ of all places) Ayala states that despite her over 25 year career at the station she was moved from prime-time reporting to graveyard shift reporting. She also states that she was offered early retirement (meaning get the hell out cuz you’re making too much noise) and told how to dress appropriately. Her vacation requests, despite being made in a timely fashion according the Univision policy, were denied according to the lawsuit.
I have seen Ayala work, om the air and on the opposite end of the Univision camera and have always seen her act in a most professional manner. Plus anyone watching Spanish language news knows that Latina women on air, be it in the newsroom or in the novelas, are often light-skinned and conventionally “pretty”. I believe that her lawsuit has merit. Let’s see where this goes.
Read the entire lawsuit at TMZ. (Save yourself the headache and don’t read the comments though)
Why is the Same Job Done In Spanish Worth Less?
11:43 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · San Francisco| TV| language · Comments Off
17 Jul 2008
Is the same news, reported in a different language, Spanish for example, worth less? According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle it is.
Reporters at San Francisco’s leading Spanish-language TV news station, KDTV/Univision, make roughly one quarter less in base pay than their English-language counterparts. This despite the fact that the Spanish newscast attract more viewers in the 25-54 demographic than every other newscast in the Bay Area save the top-rated KGO-TV.
How to explain the disparity?
Univision Like a Cold One With Sports
2:00 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing| TV · Comments Off
27 Jun 2008
Yesterday, we wrote about the problems behind Corona’s new marketing campaign. Now it seems that Univision also has an alcohol problem. From Political Salsa who it from Latina Lista:
Nominees for the first ever annual “Tecate Premios Deportes” (Tecate Sports Awards) were announced today by Univision.”
Tecate is an alcoholic product. The awards sponsor is Heineken USA and FEMSA Cerveza. FEMSA is the largest integrated beverage company in Latin America.
Premios TV y Novelas : Tequila Killed the Passion
11:42 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| Culture| TV| mexico · Comments Off
5 May 2008
I admit it. I haven’t watched a novela since TV Nacional de Chile’s Los Trienta. But I know my mom, my tias, and my abuela keep the Mexican novelas on and last night was the equivalent of the Emmy Awards, the 26th Premios TVyNovelas. Watch the dramatic looks and pauses and see who won the best novela of the year after the jump.
Univision Asks for Refund for Donation to Anti-Immigrant Senator
9:50 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Money| Politics| TV · Comments Off
26 Mar 2008
Last week I told you about a $1,000 donation that Spanish language television network Univision made to the campaign of an anti-immigrant congressman. Now the same network asked for a refund for another $1,000 it donated to the campaign of another anti-immigrant legislator, this time a Senator.
The Univision Communication Inc Political Action Committee made a $1,000 contribution to the campaign of Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) on February 27. Wicker is a prominent foe of unauthorized immigration, a former member of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and founding member of the Senate Border Security and Enforcement First Caucus. The Univision PAC then requested a refund of the contribution.
Seems that the network can’t decide where it’s loyalties lie, with the Latino immigrant community that keeps them afloat or the Republican lawmakers who want to send a large part of the network’s viewing audience, back where they came from.
Via / Candidato USA
Univision PAC Supporting Anti-Immigrant Congressman
10:03 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Politics| TV · Comments Off
20 Mar 2008
Let’s be real, for all it’s talk of being the Spanish language television voice of Latinos in the U.S., Univision doesn’t have the most progressive record. Have you seen the makeup of the novela protagonistas? And despite all the immigration questions on the CNN/Univision debates, I can’t say I’m surprised that Univision’s political action committee contributed $1,000 on January 30, 2008 to the Friends of Cliff Stearns committee. And who is Cliff Sterns?
He was a co-sponsor of H.R. 4437 (The Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005), which was popularly known as the Sensenbrenner Bill. He is also a co-sponsor of the pending immigration enforcement bill H.R. 4088 formally entitled the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act of 2007. Stearns’ stance on immigration is spelled out on his campaign website, which includes the statement “Let me assure you that I will oppose any bill that contains amnesty provisions.”
JLo to bring her love story with Marc to TV
5:27 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities| TV · 2 Comments
10 Apr 2007
Thank you, People en Español, for warning me that I need to avoid Univisión like the plague during the primetime hour in the near future. It seems that JLo is planning a thinly-veiled autobiographical musical (!) miniseries (ay, too many things I hate wrapped into one) about the pressures of her fame, her breakup with Ben Affleck and subsequent falling into the arms of Mr. Skeletor.
The plot, says an executive from Nuyorican Films, will revolve around a singer named Sofía Márquez who is constantly in the public eye. She is involved in a scandal and escapes from her boyfriend to later reunite with a old friend from the past. The protagonist then discovers that the friend, a singer named Diego, has something special for her.
Finally, Spanish-language programming with brains?
6:56 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Marketing| TV · Comments Off
5 Mar 2007
If you’re like me, you watch Spanish-language television but think that most of what’s on it makes you feel like it was created for people who lack brain cells. It seems like the people behind the production fail to realize that their viewers aren’t idiots, and insist on feeding them TV psychics, Mario Almada movies and lots and lots of novelas. I’m not sure if that will change any time soon, but this might be a good sign:
A for-profit venture partnered with public television, V-me (pronounced “veh-meh,” from the Spanish veme, for “see me”) is a 24-hour digital broadcast network carried on basic digital cable and satellite systems. The network will be partners with public TV stations, which will receive V-me at no cost…Programming features a mix of original productions and acquisitions as well as public television fare adapted for American Latinos, with content organized into four categories: lifestyle, factual, movie/special events, and kids (with V-me devoting 36 hours per week for programming devoted to preschoolers).
Televisa to Sell Univision Shares
1:22 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · TV| business · Comments Off
28 Feb 2007
Mexican media megacompany Televisa isn’t happy with Univision’s new choice of chief executive.
Broadcasting Media Partners Inc., the investor group that is buying Univision, announced on Tuesday that Joe Uva will become chief executive of Univision on April 1. Broadcasting Media Partners said it expects the acquisition to close in March.
Televisa and Univision have been at odds with each other over internet distribution rights and a program license agreement. The latest beef between the two stems from a rejected bid from Televisa to acquire Univision.
Via / Forbes
Prisoners: You ain’t takin’ away my novelas
4:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| States| TV · Comments Off
13 Jul 2006
Spanish-speaking prisoners in Utah are up in arms because they’ve been robbed of something vital to their peace of mind: Univision telenovelas.
An outburst among inmates over a decision to pull the plug on steamy Spanish-language soaps and talk shows resulted in a lockdown at Logan’s Cache County Jail.After getting numerous complaints about the raunchy shows and inmates hogging the television, jail commanders decided Tuesday to pull the Spanish-language TV channel Univision from the cable line-up pumped into the jail’s 15 common area TVs.
“It was dividing the inmates,” said Cache County Sheriff’s Lt. Brian Locke. “Some wanted to watch it, some didn’t want to watch it and it just got worse and worse and it all came back to that channel.”
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