Univision Inks Carriage Deals with Mediacom, Cablevision
Spanish-Language Broadcaster Strikes Multi-Year Pacts
by Laura Martinez -- Multichannel News, 6/23/2009 4:21:10 PM
Univision Communications is expected to announce this week that it signed a multi-year affiliation pact with Mediacom Communications, making the deal one of the latest in a string of carriage deals struck over the past six months.
Overall, Univision has inked agreements with 100
distributors for continuing carriage of the three Univision services: broadcast
networks Univision and TeleFutura and basic-cable service Galavision. Some of
the agreements -- whose terms were not disclosed -- include retransmission
consent for affiliated stations owned and operated by Entravision
Communications and Equity Media Holdings.
Among Univision's most recent deals was a pact with Cablevision Systems sealed Tuesday morning (June 23), involving New York owned-and-operated stations WXTV (Univision) and WFUT (TeleFutura), as well as Galavision. Just one day earlier, Univision's New York-area properties were running a TV advisory in which Univision executive vice president and chief strategy officer Cesar Conde warned subscribers of the New York-area MSO about potential disruptions.
The spot -- which Univision confirmed is no longer running -- directed viewers to a toll-free phone number where they were transferred to a Cablevision customer-service representative.
A Cablevision spokesperson on Tuesday morning told Hispanic TV Update that "we have concluded our discussions with Univision and we are pleased with the results."
A Univision spokeswoman confirmed that a deal with Cablevision has been reached and that the warning is no longer running.
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