IN BRIEF
- Less Than 4 Million Hispanics Tuned in for Debate
Nielsen estimated that 3.46 million Hispanic viewers watched the debate in Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Telefutura. These were among a total 52.4 million Americans who watched on the English-language networks. The overall number was well below the 62.5 million who watched the first Bush/Kerry debate four years ago. more » » »
- Univision Continues Retrans Talks
Some TV stations have already put demands for cash on the table in advance of the Oct. 1 federal deadline for broadcasters to tell cable operators whether they plan to negotiate retransmission-consent deals for carriage of their signals. One of the more aggressive retransmission-consent gambits is coming from stations owned by Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications, which has historically opted for must-carry. However, since going private in 2007, Univision has let it be known that it would seek as much as $1 per month, per subscriber for its 63 stations, whose contracts expire at year-end. In June, the company filed letters indicating it is opting for retransmission consent, a push that could prove particularly costly to Time Warner Cable, which has a large presence in
such Latino strongholds as New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. Pali Research media analyst Rich Greenfield in a July report estimated that Hispanic households represent about 1.8 million households, or 14% of the operator’s 13.3 million subscriber footprint. more » » »
- Comcast Gives Mexican Music Net a U.S. Toehold
Mexican music network TeleRitmo has scored its initial U.S. berth, as part of Comcast’s Spanish-language pack in the Houston market. TeleRitmo, which is based in Monterrey, offers norteño and regional music that has migrated from south of the border to the U.S. over the past decade. The network has been available since Sept. 3 on Comcast’s Canales Selecto offering in the Houston DMA on channel 531. more » » »
Q&A
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Deborah Forte has a lot on her plate: As executive vice president of New York-based Scholastic, she’s charged with developing worldwide media, feature film, television and consumer-products business for the children’s publishing, education and media titan. more » » »
AROUND THE WEB
- Televisa Launches Its Own Version of YouTube
The weekly newspaper El Semanario in Mexio City reports media giant Grupo Televisa will launch its own version of YouTube, featuring up to 600,000 hours of content. The company’s Televisa Interactive Media unit will launch tvolucion.com, featuring both its own productions as well as user-generated content. U.S. viewers, however, will only be able to see a fraction of the programs on the portal because of the lawsuit pending with partner Univision Communications over Internet-distribution rights. “This site will offer high-quality, new videos as well as a wealth of archives from Grupo Televisa,” said Emilio Azcárraga Jean in a statement. more » » »
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