Luis Fernández, current president of Noticias Telemundo, will retire at the end of the year, after almost five decades in the media industry.
«I have fulfilled my dream, to be a journalist, with passion and humility, to exercise what García Márquez considered ‘the best job in the world.’ I’m retiring after 46 years, the last six on @TelemundoNews. Very grateful to life, my parents, and everyone with whom I shared excellent teams”, he said in his Twitter account.
“Being a journalist was a dream and today is an honor. (…) I decided to become a journalist, convinced that it requires dedication, honesty, rigor, and independence. And humility!”, he wrote in a second tweet.
Latinos being pacesetters of cultural and technological change, Comcast continues to innovate right alongside them. “We’re adapting to reflect the consumption habits of our audience…and shape a new era in Hispanic media. This includes a specific focus on streaming, which Hispanics tend to over-index on when it comes to media consumption,” said José E. Velez-Silva, VP Multicultural Brand Marketing de Comcast.
Free/ad-supported programming accounts for close to 50% of total viewing on the Xfinity Flex.
A great part of Charter Communications’ strategy to keep up with the changing video landscape is focused on the Spectrum TV App. “The app is the go-to TV-viewing platform for millions of our customers and is actually one of the highest-rated streaming apps in the country,” said Tom Montemagno, EVP of Programming Acquisition for Charter Communications, Inc.
He explained that the Spectrum TV App can be installed on the most popular operating systems and devices, including iOS, Android, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Kindle.
Univision’s transformation is well underway according to Luis Silberwasser, President of Univision Television Networks Group, who quoted the Q3 positive results this year revealed by the CEO, Wade Davis. “We report a +17% growth in primetime audiences; a 59% Hispanic TV share, four percentage points higher than last year, and an increase of 32.5% in advertising revenue compared to the same quarter of the previous year. previous.”
He announced that at the beginning of November they renewed their branding to UNIMÁS, to position the brand as a dynamic, bold, and cheerful network that offers a great variety of entertainment.
The transition to a multiplatform open to future technologies is the greatest next project for CNN en Español. “We are not going to survive only as a TV or digital outlet. Nowadays we have to be able to conquer all the media at the same time in order to be recognized journalistically,” said Benjamín Fernández, VP Newsgathering at CNNE.
For Fernández the Internet has become an extension of the news channels. “Not everyone has the time to sit in front of a TV set and watch the 6pm news or their favorite newscast at any time. Both TV and digital have their own clients and rhythm. So yes, we have to adapt to this platform to provide content. I think growth in the future continues to be the development of the Internet as the dominant source of information.”
Euronews operates a Spanish media for nearly three decades with a dedicated Spanish-speaking newsroom and the help of their global network of over 600 journalists worldwide.
“The main targets of this media are the Spanish speakers. The ones from Europe, but also all over the world. Thus, the US is a natural and priority market for us and also a location where our core audience sits. Our unique content proposition coupled with the fact that our brand is recognized as a reliable and independent media amongst Spanish speakers led to a huge boost for Euronews’ Spanish edition in the last years. This growth has also been driven by the Covid context which highlighted again the importance of live TV and, particularly, News on TV and digital platforms,” explained Maxime Carboni, Director of Worldwide Distribution, Euronews.
Although times change, the focus and essence of Univision Noticias continue to be serving the Hispanic community, according to its President, Leopoldo Gómez.
«Our vision and challenge are to become the leading Spanish-language outlet in the world, serving our audience on their favorite platforms, with a solid streaming news service and new programs and audio formats,» he added.
Among the next developments, Gómez mentions the new 24/7 digital news channel and new content projects for mobile consumption, that include new audio formats.
For Luis Fernández, president of Noticias Telemundo, the network’s most notable shift in recent years was finally betting on the news. “And the great leap in Noticias Telemundo has been in the quality of its content, getting closer to Latinos; offering more original content; and a staging that has been recognized by the most prestigious awards, even above our Anglo competitors,” added.
Fernández, who announced his retirement at the end of the year, will be replaced by Patsy Loris, current VP Executive of Telemundo’s News.
In the future, they will continue to bet on original content. An example is the launch of Noticias Telemundo Planeta Tierra and Noticias Telemundo Investiga, which have been a benchmark and source of relevant information.
Antonio Briceño, General Director of beIN SPORTS North America, highlighted that the only channel that offers live sports through the FAST (Free Ad-Supported Television) is beIN SPORTS XTRA, which allows them to offer a truly unique experience,
“This allows us to avoid being affected by channel saturation, and at the same time raising the exposure and brands of some of our most important properties in a way that other programming networks may not be able to. It also allows access to a sample of the premium content that is available on our main channels,” he said.
beIN SPORTS XTRA and beIN SPORTS XTRA in Spanish are available through streaming services on more than 250 million devices and on broadcast TV, making them even more accessible to viewers simply with the use of an antenna.
beIN SPORTS XTRA is in 65 markets, surpassing 13.2 million homes through broadcast TV, while beIN SPORTS XTRA en Español is in 54 markets, in about 11.3 million homes through broadcast TV.
2021 has been a positive year for Fanatiz. Many projects consolidated, including the integration of Fanatiz, Nunchee, and 1190 Sports to create Fz Sports, a company born at the beginning of the year “and which represents a disruptive way of linking technology, the OTT market, and the sports rights,” said Matías Rivera, CEO of Fz Sports.
Fz Sports paved the way to the launch of Brasileirao Play powered by Fanatiz, the official platform for Brazilian soccer, and AFA Play powered by Fanatiz, for Argentine soccer, which live within Fanatiz and are added to the offer of content they already have.
In addition, during the first semester, they launched Fanatiz México in alliance with Fox Sports México and Claro Sports, as well as the leagues of Argentina and Brazil, and many other contents in several territories. «Today Fanatiz is the service with the largest content of live soccer in the entire Mexican market,» Rivera said.
Aiming to enhance Fanatiz’s content offering and user experience for 2022, Rivera announced that they are actively working on some new exclusive productions for the platform, while developing, in parallel, several experiments of new consumer formats and transmission of events. live.
FOX Deportes was born on November 1st, 1996. That date, 25 years ago, the channel made history as the first Spanish-language sports network in the United States.
Over the years, the network has been home to big sports properties and was the first to air in Spanish in the United States some of the greatest: The English Premier League, The World Series, The Super Bowl.
For Olek Loewenstein, President of Sports Content at Univision, the consumption of live sports events through the different platforms is one of the most relevant trends in the current market.
“Soccer has become key in the programmatic offer of open television, cable television, and, of course, of the different digital platforms. At TUDN we are the leaders in the sports offering for our audiences in both Mexico and the US. Our partnerships with LigaMX clubs, the Mexican Football Federation, US Soccer, UEFA, Concacaf, MLS, and many more, allow us to provide soccer fans with non-stop action throughout the year,” he highlights.
Preparations for the 2022 World Cup, which for the second consecutive year will be on Telemundo’s screen for the Hispanic US (from November 22 to December 18), began in December 2020 with a call in conference with 130 people, said Ray Warren, President of Telemundo Deportes, who added that two years before the Cup, the Advertising Sales team was talking with their clients.
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