#TelevisaUnivision

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G. Capuano at MMFA:

Univision’s elDetector project has worked for months to fact-check Donald Trump’s dangerous lies about abortion, immigration, and the January 6 insurrection. During an October 16 Televisa Univision town hall with the former president, journalist Enrique Acevedo — who in 2023 faced criticism for his interview with Trump — will also have the chance to push back against Trump's misinformation by fact-checking the GOP presidential candidate in real time. 

The event will also be an opportunity for Univision to restore trust among its viewers after concerns that the network’s corporate owners, Televisa Univision, have made attempts to become friendly with the former president, with whom the network had cut business ties in 2016 after a series of racist remarks against Mexicans. In 2023, the Washington Post reported that “Trump is treating Univision and its new corporate owners like long-lost friends” and that “he hosted a trio of its executives at Mar-a-Lago” during his interview with Acevedo.   The town hall will broadcast out of Miami and will be followed by a dueling town hall with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, October 10. Univision and its streaming service ViX will air the town halls with a Spanish translation, with the full English-language version available on the Noticias Univision YouTube channel.

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Univision’s elDetector has fact-checked Trump before

Univision’s elDetector, an online Spanish-language fact-checking project launched ahead of the 2016 presidential election, has spent the last several months pushing back against Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, his false and racist attacks against Harris’ identity, his fearmongering about Democrats’ position on abortion, and his distortions about the January 6 insurrection. 

Univision has an impeccable record of fact-checking Donald Trump. Will they do so at the town hall?

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New photos of Shakira at TelevisaUnivision’s Upfront event in New York City. (May 14, 2024)

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@asongofstarkandtargaryen There's news of an upcoming period drama: Las Pelotaris 1926. Here's the info I found:

Synopsis: "The series tells of the struggle of three Basque ball players who try to achieve their dreams by overcoming the prejudices and ties that prevailed in the 20s of the last century, when men monopolized all the power. Chelo (Zuria Vega), Idoia (Clara Salas) and Itzi (María de Nati) are successful athletes who assume the consequences of breaking the mold in a world where ambition and sexual freedom were denied to the female gender."

Marc Cistaré is the creator of this story that tells the story of three women who fight to fulfill their dreams in a world dominated by men. Cistaré leads a team of scriptwriters made up of Adriana Rivas (Vis a Vis, Estoy vivo, Águila Roja), Javier Naya (El barco, Rabia) and the Mexican Anaí López (XY, Bienvenida realidad, Infames).

Jesús Rodrigo (Vis a Vis, El internado, Estoy vivo, Un paso adelante) is in charge of directing the 8 episodes, which have Chechu Graf as director of photography (Toc, Toc , Campeones, La víctima número 8) and Fernando González (La casa de papel, Águila Roja) in charge of the setting as art director.

This series was filmed in various locations such as Ciudad de México, Tepoztlán and Las Estacas and later the filming moved to Spain, in locations in the Basque Country like Donostia, Biarritz, Artikutza and Pasaia, as well as some locations in other places such as Madrid and Guadalajara.

The international cast headed by the Mexican Zuria Vega (El refugio, Alma de Hierro, Inquilinos, Sin ella, La venganza de las Juanas, Un refugio para el amor) and the Spanish Claudia Salas (La ruta, Élite, La peste, Cerdita) and María de Nati (El buen patrón, El Reino, Que Dios nos perdone, Entrevías, La víctima número 8) will complete with these actors in the main male roles: the Argentinean David Chocarro (En otra piel, La Doña, El rostro de la venganza, La casa de al lado, El recluso) and the Mexicans Marco de la O (Rambo: Last Blood, El Chapo, Falsa identidad, R), Vicente Tamayo (El Club, La Guzmán, La Candidata, Luis Miguel: la serie), Héctor Kotsifakis (Luna de miel, El recluso, Hysteria, Ojos que no ven, Los minutos negros) and Antonio Gaona (Palabra de Ladrón, Educando a Nina, Rosario Tijeras), among many other actors. The cast, eminently female, includes the Colombian Viviana Serna (La ciénaga: entre el mar y la tierra, La Bruja, La ronca de oro, Por Siempre Joan Sebastián, Supertitlán) and the Spanish Alejandra Onieva (Alta Mar, Reinas, Presunto Culpable, El secreto de Puente Viejo), Krista Aroca (HIT) and Eva Rubio (El buen patrón, La voz dormida, Primaria).

Complete cast

Zuria Vega (Chelo Barbosa)

Claudia Salas (Idoia)

María de Nati (Itzi)

Viviana Serna (Rosa)

Carla Gris (Laia)

Gaizka Ugarte (Andrés)

Anastasia Russo (Malen)

Rachel Lascar (Dra. Dietrich)

Miguel Garcés (Gorka)

Hector Kotsifakis (Uribe)

Raúl Yuste (Teniente del Álamo)

Fernanda Valencia( Maca)

Daniel García (policía)

Alejandra Onieva

David Chocarro

Marco de la O

Vicente Tamayo

Antonio Gaona

Álex Onieva

Krista Aroca

Eva Rubio

Jesús Castejón

Peter Vives

' Las Pelotaris 1926' remains the definitive title of the first series that was born from the agreement between TelevisaUnivision and Mediapro Studio, being a co-production between Mexico and Spain. The series will premiere exclusively on ViX+, the premium subscription level of the ViX streaming service, which is available in the Spanish-speaking Latin America and the USA.

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Spanish-language Univision is becoming more MAGA-friendly despite Donald Trump's histrionic talk of vermin, concentration camps, and how immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country".

The famous Trump Univision interview by Enrique Acevedo has some interesting backstory.

During the hour-long interview, Acevedo allowed the former president — who as recently as 2020 called Univision “a leftist propaganda machine” — to openly pander to Latinos' “entrepreneurial” spirit, and to threaten his political opponents by insinuating he would weaponize the Department of Justice against them if he is re-elected.  This interview adds to concerns that the Spanish-language news giant – which in 2016 cut business ties with Trump and his Miss USA beauty pageant after his racist remarks against Mexicans – is shifting its stance on the former president. The Washington Post reported that “Trump is treating Univision and its new corporate owners like long-lost friends. He hosted a trio of its executives at Mar-a-Lago last week during an hour-long Univision interview that was notable for its gracious tone.”  The report also indicated that TelevisaUnivision Mexico co-CEO Bernardo Gomez Martinez, who has a “long working relationship” with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was responsible for facilitating the sit-down. 

Yep, you may have thought Jared had moved on from his working relationship with El Douché but he's still pulling strings for Trump.

[I]n the days that followed Trump’s interview with Acevedo, some network pundits made the case that Trump has “softened” on immigration in an effort “to repair his relationship” with Latinos – flying in the face of the network’s own reporting about his explicitly stated policies and stance on the issue. In the days that followed Trump’s interview, Univision regional and national prime-time shows like Al Punto California, Noticiero Univision, and Linea de Fuego have hosted numerous conservative pundits, including former personalities from Americano Media — the Trump-aligned Spanish-language network that ran out of money earlier this year — to defend the former president and argue that he is aiming for “a change in strategy” on Latinos and immigration.

Either those Univision pundits are living in an alternative reality or word came down from the patrón to go easy on El Douché.

Of course Univision's blatant pandering to a virulent racist and hatemonger is not going unchallenged.

Latino backlash grows over Donald Trump’s friendly Univision interview

The nation’s largest Spanish-language media company, Univision, faced growing backlash Friday for its handling of a recent interview with former president Donald Trump, as major Latino advocacy groups delivered a letter of protest to the network’s executives and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus prepared to request a meeting with the network. Actor and comedian John Leguizamo, who recently took a turn as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” also posted a video on Instagram on Thursday night calling for a boycott of the network until it stopped its rejection of Biden ads, some of which were canceled just before the Trump interview aired. “I am asking all my brothers and sisters who are actors, artists, politicians, activists to not go on Univision,” he said in a message in English and Spanish. [ ... ] Joaquin Blaya, a former president of Univision who created its signature news show in the late 1980s, told The Washington Post in an interview this week that he worried the network had moved away from its founding mission. [ ... ] The Mexican media company Grupo Televisa, which has long had a close relationship with political power brokers in that country, recently merged with the owners of Univision to take joint control of the company. “This was Mexican-style news coverage, a repudiation of the concept of separation of business and news,” Blaya said of the Trump interview. “What I saw there was batting practice, someone dropping balls for him to hit out of the park. I think it was an embarrassment.”

What Trump tells MAGA-friendly interviewers from Univision is not what he is telling everybody else. And that interview was heavily edited to make him seem less unpalatable to the audience.

This is the same Trump who called Mexicans "drug dealers", "criminals", and "rapists" and never apologized for his insults nor took them back.

The View conducted a good journalistic dissection of the way the Univision interview took place.

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Danilo Carrera se confiesa y habla de su prometida; ¿Es de la realeza?

Además, el actor, modelo y futbolista comparte con Catalina Mora las verdaderas razones de su retiro actoral.

MIAMI.- Danilo Carrera es sin lugar a dudas el galán del momento, el actor ecuatoriano es el protagonista de la nueva telenovela de TelevisaUnivision, ‘El Amor invencible’, pero su gran éxito también lo han hecho a ser blanco de críticas y encabezar innumerables titulares, en especial sobre su vida privada. Desde su ruptura con Michelle Renaud, hasta las bizarras especulaciones sobre su nuevo…

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Edward Segarra at USA Today:

Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos, best known as a longtime co-host of "Noticiero Univision," is leaving the network after a 40-year tenure. Ramos and Univision’s parent company TelevisaUnivision announced the newscaster’s exit, set for after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in a press release Monday. "This is not a farewell. I will continue anchoring 'Noticiero Univision' until December, and afterwards I will share my professional plan," Ramos, 66, said in a statement. "I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years." While Ramos did not disclose the reason for his exit, the TV journalist and Univision "mutually agreed" to not renew his contract.

[...] Known as the "Walter Cronkite of Latin America," Ramos joined "Noticiero Univision" in 1986, hosting the program alongside news anchor María Elena Salinas until her departure in 2017. The Emmy-winning journalist is also host of Univision’s public affairs series "Al Punto." Ramos' exit marks the second major departure for Univision in the last year. León Krauze, who co-anchored "Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna," left the news organization in November 2023.

Jorge Ramos is leaving Univision after 40 years, effective following the 2024 elections.

Ramos is effectively the Spanish-language Walter Cronkite.

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New photos of Shakira at TelevisaUnivision’s Upfront event in New York City. (May 14, 2024)

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PREVIOUSLY: A top anchor at Univision has departed amid reports that the media outlet has shifted to a much more favorable way of covering Donald Trump.

The anchor, León Krauze, wrote Wednesday on X/Twitter, “Very dear friends. I deeply appreciate all the affectionate messages I have received in the last few hours. I will soon publish a statement about my professional future.”

The company said in a statement, “TelevisaUnivision expresses our heartfelt gratitude for the outstanding contributions, expertise, and insightful analyses delivered by Leon Krauze throughout his tenure with our news division. We sincerely appreciate his dedicated efforts in empowering and informing Hispanic communities at both the national and local levels for over a decade. We extend our best wishes to Leon in all his future professional endeavors.”

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Univision canceled Biden campaign advertising spots that were scheduled to run during the outlet’s interview with former President Donald Trump. The Post reported that Univision also canceled an interview with Maca Casado, the Biden team’s Hispanic media director, that was set to be a response to the Trump interview.

The Trump interview itself was regarded as non-confrontational, with the Post noting instances where Trump was not challenged on certain key facts. The interview, conducted by Enrique Acevedo, also was a contrast to Univision’s reporting on Trump under previous ownership. Perhaps most famously, the Trump campaign kicked Jorge Ramos, perhaps the network’s most recognizable personality, out of a press conference in 2015. Ramos had pressed Trump on his rhetoric toward immigrants.

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We Have an Interesting Development About Kamala's Univision Town Hall Event

Michael Tracey isn’t a conservative, but you can be assured he’ll be accused of being one after this piece. It’s the usual modus operandi for the Left: if you betray the narrative, you’re with the other side. Luckily for him, he’s never been one to follow the leader. He was an original Russian collusion skeptic on the Left, earning him the ire of his colleagues. He couldn’t care less. He’ll call out his side if they’re being obnoxious. Take Kamala Harris’ Univision town hall—would it shock you that it was chock-full of her supporters despite being branded as an ‘undecided Latino voter’ town hall event? 

No, of course not. 

Tracey spoke with the seat-fillers, all self-proclaimed Kamala supporters bused in by a company that ensures high-profile events are packed with people. Tracey tried to interview those who asked Kamala those pre-selected questions but was blocked: [emphasis mine]: 

 “I already knew I was going to go for Kamala,” one town hall participant told me. “Part of the reason why I wanted to go was just, like, to also fully support her.”  “So you were already decided, before you came?” I asked another. “Yes,” she replied, declaring her support for Kamala.  The audience members I spoke to were selected with the help of a company called FansOnQ, according to the company’s founder, Conny Quintanilla, whose title for yesterday’s event was “Audience Manager.” The company puts out “casting calls” for events like the Latin Grammy Awards, which have been previously held in Las Vegas. It’s a type of company that you might not be consciously aware exists, but once you’re told of its existence, it makes perfect intuitive sense: people who want to dance at award shows are “vetted” by this particular company, perhaps for good looks and rhythmic skills. That’s the same company which filled the seats at Kamala’s town hall.  Another person told me he was able to attend because he “knows people” at an unnamed “progressive organization,” which somehow granted him the ability to get in the town hall audience. The person said he works as an intern for Rep. Steven Horsford, Democrat of Nevada. I’m not naming the person because he was wary of attribution. Others quoted here also didn’t want to be identified.  These aforementioned attendees were essentially just “seat fillers” — they were not the audience members who were called on to ask pre-selected questions. Those audience members were flown in from around the country at Univision’s expense. Which is a bit odd, because there would certainly have been plenty of genuine “undecided Latino voters” in Clark County, Nevada who I’m sure would’ve been more than happy to ask Kamala Harris a question.  NOTE: The non-question-asking attendees were still integral to the televisual production of the event, hence their recruitment. Uninformed viewers at home were under the false impression that the people they were watching react to Kamala’s answers were “undecided voters,” when numerous of them were in fact pre-committed Harris voters who sought to attend for the specific purpose of demonstrating their support for Kamala.  Naturally, I wanted to interview the actual question-asking attendees. However, a corporate dictate apparently came down prohibiting this. “We won’t be making them available,” Anna Negron, Director of Corporate Communications at TelevisaUnivision… 

Gee, I wonder why. We made fun of the fact that a teleprompter was in view during this event, which wouldn’t shock us since the vice president is a disaster without a script. Supposedly, that’s been debunked; she wasn’t using such a device for this event, but this revelation is frankly much worse.

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M&A in the Telecom Space USA, Mexico and Canada

United States

T-Mobile and Sprint: T-Mobile's merger with Sprint was finalized in 2020, creating a significant player in the 5G market. The integration is ongoing, with efforts to enhance network coverage and services.

Verizon and TracFone: Verizon acquired TracFone in 2020 to expand its prepaid wireless offerings. This deal aimed to broaden Verizon’s customer base and enhance its competitive edge.

Dish Network and Boost Mobile: Following the T-Mobile-Sprint merger, Dish Network acquired Boost Mobile. This move positioned Dish as a new entrant into the wireless market with plans for its 5G network.

AT&T and Discovery: Although not a traditional telecom merger, AT&T's spin-off of its WarnerMedia assets to form a new entity with Discovery, Inc. in 2022 shifted AT&T's focus back to its core telecommunications business.

Canada

Rogers and Shaw: Rogers Communications announced plans to acquire Shaw Communications in a deal valued at approximately CAD 26 billion, aimed at expanding its footprint in Western Canada. The acquisition faced regulatory scrutiny but was ultimately approved in 2023.

Telus and Shaw: Telus attempted to acquire Shaw but was unsuccessful due to Rogers' competing bid. This highlights the ongoing consolidation pressure in the Canadian telecom market.

Quebecor and Freedom Mobile: Quebecor announced its intention to acquire Freedom Mobile from Shaw as part of the Rogers-Shaw merger deal, which would strengthen its position in the wireless market.

Mexico

AT&T and Grupo Iusacell: AT&T’s acquisition of Iusacell in 2015 and Nextel Mexico helped establish its presence in the Mexican market, enhancing competition against América Móvil.

Televisa and Univision Merger: In 2021, Televisa and Univision merged to form TelevisaUnivision, impacting content distribution and streaming services in the region, indirectly affecting telecom partnerships.

América Móvil: América Móvil, owned by Carlos Slim, continues to expand its holdings in various countries, solidifying its position as a dominant player in the Mexican telecom market.

Trends

Regulatory Scrutiny: Mergers and acquisitions in all three countries are facing increased regulatory scrutiny, particularly concerning market competition and consumer impacts.

Focus on 5G and Infrastructure: Many of these deals aim to bolster 5G capabilities and enhance network infrastructure, reflecting the growing demand for faster and more reliable connectivity.

These developments illustrate the evolving landscape of the telecom industry in North America, driven by competition, technology advancements, and regulatory dynamics.

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