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Noticias Univision
Aquí y Ahora
¡Despierta América!
Noticiero Univision
Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna
Primer Impacto
Other services:Fusion (English language digital cable-satellite news channel)
Owner:TelevisaUnivision
Website:noticias.univision.com

Noticias Univision (

Fusion and Univision's flagship owned-and-operated station WLTV-DT
.

The division's flagship program is

Sunday morning political affairs program Al Punto con Jorge Ramos
.

Noticias Univision maintains bureaus located at many of the network's television stations across the

RCN TV, Peru-based América Televisión, and regional-wide CNN en Español
.

The division's tagline is "Para estar al tanto del acontecer mundial, los hispanos sintonizan Noticias Univision." (English: "To stay on top of what's happening around the world, Hispanics tune into Univision News.")

Overview

The national newscasts began on KMEX-DT in June 1, 1981 when the network was known as the Spanish International Network, and before the network's name change in 1987 was known as Noticiero Nacional SIN. In 1987, Televisa owner Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, who also oversaw SIN (then a subsidiary of the Mexico City-based company), appointed former Televisa news anchor Jacobo Zabludovsky as director of SIN's news division; the move met with protest among staff at the news division, concerned over the extent of the autonomy of SIN's news department and potential censorship in its journalistic practices (specifically, the reporting on the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba, which while recognized in Mexico, did not have aspects that led to the migration of Cubans to the United States), with most news staffers opting to quit.[3]

After Azcárraga and Emilio Nicolas, Sr. subsequently sold their interests in SIN parent Spanish International Communications to

Maria Elena Salinas (the latter of whom replaced Teresa Rodriguez as anchor) to co-anchor the evolving network newscast.[3]

Univision eventually decided to expand its news programming to afternoons; in 1992, the network debuted Noticias y Más ("News and More"), anchored by Jackie Nespral, Ambrosio Hernandez and Raúl Peimbert; Myrka Dellanos joined the program after Nespral's departure later that year. Hernandez and Peimbert left Univision in 1993 to join Telemundo, while Nespral became co-host of the weekend edition of NBC's Today. Univision had other plans for the moribund show: the network revamped its format, changed its name and its theme music, and hired Puerto Rican-born María Celeste Arrarás as a weekend reporter to serve as Dellanos' partner; the retooled newsmagazine series became Primer Impacto ("First Impact") in February 1994.[4]

Then on April 14, 1997, Univision replaced reruns of Televisa-produced children's programs (such as

Plaza Sesamo {the Latin American version of Sesame Street}) and re-entered into the morning news arena for the first time in eight years with the premiere of ¡Despierta América! ("Wake Up America!"). Maintaining a format similar to its English language counterparts, it was designed to compete with (and was loosely based on the format of) Today, ABC's Good Morning America and CBS This Morning, with a focus on the network's Hispanic and Latino target demographic. The program quickly grew into a major competitor, increasing Univision's viewership in its morning time period by more than 46% by April 1998, and developed a unique style in its reporting of various types of news stories (including health, lifestyle, fashion, beauty and entertainment news, the latter of which was featured as part of a segment called "échate pa' acá" ("Come here") with a focus on popular Latino actors and musicians).[5][6]

In 1998, Univision premiered a prime time investigative news magazine

Aquí y Ahora ("Here & Now"), which focuses on in-depth investigative pieces and interviews with newsmakers. From 2000 to 2010, Univision was the only major U.S. broadcast network to increase its news viewership, while its English-language counterparts on ABC, NBC and CBS each lost half of their total viewership.[7] By the early 2000s, as the network expanded its national reach through the signing of new over-the-air affiliates, Univision's news programs had grown to regularly outrank its Spanish-language competitors, with the early-evening edition of Noticiero Univision often placing ahead of its English language rivals (NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News) among viewers in the 18-49 age demographic. On September 9, 2007, the network premiered the first Sunday morning talk show on Spanish-language American television, Al Punto ("On Point"), a program moderated by Jorge Ramos that features discussions on political and socioeconomic issues pertinent to Latino Americans.[8]

On December 9, 2010, Univision announced that it had hired

Fusion, and further in February 2015, when he became president of Univision's digital media operations through a reorganization of that division.[10][11]

In March 2011, the network hosted its first Presidential town hall meeting; the televised special – which was watched by more than 2.7 million viewers, and featured anchor Jorge Ramos and President Barack Obama – focused on the future of education in the United States.[12] Noticias Univision would later produce two town hall debates between presidential incumbent Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney the following year in the run-up to the 2012 Presidential elections.

Also in 2011, Noticias Univision formed two new departments within the news division: an investigative reporting unit, which was led by

Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 33rd News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2012.[19]

In March 2013, Noticias Univision and

Center for Investigative Reporting.[20]

Programming

Noticiero Univision

Main article: Noticiero Univision

The network's flagship newscast, Noticiero Univision, is a traditional evening news program that provides a general rundown of the day's news headlines, with more of a bent towards stories occurring in Latin America and, domestically, news stories and issues of utmost importance to Hispanic and Latino Americans. Because of this, reports focusing on

Miami
.

A secondary late-night edition of the program, Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna ("Univision News: Evening Edition"), airs nightly at 11:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time (with a rebroadcast at 4:30 a.m. local time). The program – which is one of only two traditional national newscasts among the major U.S. broadcast networks (alongside Hechos on competitor

Azteca) that airs in a late-evening time slot – maintains a similar format to the early-evening edition, with more of a focus on major news headlines; however, the program utilizes separate anchors from the early broadcast for the weeknight editions. From 1999 to 2011, the late-evening newscast was known as Noticiero Univision Ultima Hora, maintaining an in-depth, investigative focus anchored by Enrique Gratas
.

Current programs

  • Noticiero Univision (1981–present; originally titled Noticiero Nacional SIN from 1981 to 1987)
  • Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna (2009–present)
  • Noticiero Univision: Edición Digital (September 12, 2016–present)
  • Al Punto ("To the Point"; 2007–present) – a Sunday morning political and cultural affairs program, hosted by Jorge Ramos (it was the only Spanish language Sunday morning talk show on U.S. television until Telemundo debuted Enfoque in 2011)
  • ¡Despierta América! (1997–present) – a morning news and lifestyle program featuring half-hourly news updates from Noticias Univision
  • Primer Impacto (1994–present) – an hour-long newsmagazine on Monday through Friday afternoons (which originally aired as a seven-day-a-week broadcast until 2007), focusing on news headlines, caught-on-tape stories, feature segments and entertainment stories
  • Primer Impacto Extra (1994–present) – a condensed half-hour edition of Primer Impacto (which airs in place of late local newscasts on affiliates without their own news department or which choose to preempt regularly scheduled local newscasts on certain holidays).
  • Aquí y Ahora
     ("Here and Now"; 2001–present) – a Sunday evening investigative newsmagazine

Noticias Univision also produces 60-second news capsules (titled Breve Informativo de Noticiero Univision, or "Univision News Brief") that air during commercial breaks – except those featured during the Noticiero Univision-branded early and late newscasts – each hour throughout the broadcast day on Univision, and provides special report cut-ins within regular programming if needed during breaking news events. Some newsmagazine programs produced by Televisa (such as Hoy and Tras la Verdad) also air as part of the network's schedule.

Former programming

  • Noticias y Más (1990–1994)
  • Noticiero Univision: Última Hora (1999–2011)

Other services

Fusion

Main article:
Fusion (TV channel)

Fusion is a

Disney-ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which launched on October 28, 2013. Relying in part on the resources of the news divisions operated by the respective companies, ABC News and Noticias Univision, the network carries a broad mix of news, lifestyle, pop culture, satire and entertainment programs aimed at English-speaking millennial adults between the ages of 18 and 34 (marking Univision's first major push into English-language programming), including those of Hispanic and Latino American heritage.[21][22][23][24][25] Fusion operates out of Noticias Univision's "Newsport" facility in Doral, Florida;[26] although, while Univision handles programming responsibilities for Fusion and Disney-ABC Television Group provides advertising sales and distribution for the channel, it operates independently from ABC News and Noticias Univision, employing its own hosts and correspondents, management, production staff and board of directors.[27]

In December 2010, Noticias Univision president Isaac Lee announced plans to start an English language cable news channel aimed at American Hispanics;

Univision Communications reached an agreement with The Walt Disney Company to partner in the development of the channel,[29] the two companies formally announced its launch on May 8, 2012.[30] Through its focused target demographic, which is regarded as being fluent in digital consumption and favors social media and internet sources over traditional broadcast and print media for receiving news content, the network operates FusionLive, an online and mobile streaming service available to subscribers of participating cable and satellite providers.[31]

Univision Noticias

Univision Noticias is a planned Spanish language

Univision tlnovelas in January 2012; As of October 2015, however, the network has not yet launched.[33][34]

Univision News (website)

Noticias Univision also maintains a separate website – powered through a partnership with Tumblr – and a companion Twitter feed, under the banner Univision News.[35][36] The website and feed provides national and international news content presented in English, intended to cater to Hispanics and other news consumers not fluent in the Spanish language.

The Root

On May 21, 2015, Univision Communications announced that it would acquire

Graham Holdings Company (whose chairman and CEO, Donald E. Graham, co-founded the site with Henry Louis Gates Jr. in 2008). The deal will allow The Root to use Univision Communications' digital production facilities and publishing infrastructure, although it will maintain editorial autonomy over its content and its existing editorial staff (including managing editor Lyne Pitts and publisher and vice president of digital content Donna Byrd, the latter of whom was also appointed as a member of the Univision Digital division's management staff).[37][38][39]

On–air staff

Notable current on–air staff

  • Mexico Enrique Acevedo – weeknight anchor, Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna
  • Colombia Ilia Calderón – weeknight anchor, Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna
  • Mexico María Antonieta Collins – senior special correspondent, Noticias Univision and Fusion
  • Pamela Silva Conde
    – co-anchor, Primer Impacto
  • Colombia Natalia Cruz – anchor, Primer Impacto Extra
  • Colombia Félix de Bedout – weekend anchor, Noticiero Univision and Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna
  • Mexico Jorge Ramos – weeknight co-anchor, Noticero Univision; host, Al Punto

Notable former on–air staff

† Indicates person is deceased

Bureaus

Major bureaus

Minor bureaus (within the United States)

1 All Univision owned-and-operated stations are considered bureaus of Noticias Univision, including those not listed here.

Criticism and controversies

Dispute with Donald Trump and criticism of Jorge Ramos

See also: Jorge Ramos (news anchor)

After

the comments he made in his declaratory campaign speech disparaging Mexican immigrants, accusing Mexico of sending criminals, rapists and drug importers to the United States (which led Univision Communications to terminate its contract to air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, which were set to air on sister network UniMás through a five-year deal signed that February, and prohibit its employees from conducting company business at Trump-owned hotels or resorts; Trump subsequently filed a $500 million breach of contract lawsuit against Univision over the contract termination). On June 26, Trump posted a handwritten correspondence letter sent by Ramos, requesting an interview with him, on Instagram, which contained Ramos' personal cell phone number for business use (which was unobscured), before deleting the post.[40][41][42][43][44]

At a

First Amendment."[48]

As he has gained visibility in the general journalistic community in recent years, Ramos has received criticism of his balancing of journalistic ethics and an

Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz stating that Ramos had behaved "like a heckler;" CNN political commentator Jeffrey Lord accusing Ramos of playing the "race card" despite being a "blue-eyed, light-skinned[...] European Mexican" and "dividing the country by race;" and Politico writer Marc Caputo calling Ramos biased for his open support for immigration reform, although Intercept writer Glenn Greenwald defended him, pointing out American journalists such as Thomas Paine and Edward R. Murrow who have balanced opinion and advocacy. Ramos stated in regards to his approach to journalism, "Our position is clearly pro-Latino or pro-immigrant ... We are simply being the voice of those who don't have a voice";[49][50][51] in an October 2015 New Yorker interview, Ramos also noted that Latino Americans "have almost no political representation", specifically criticizing Republican candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz for not "defend[ing] the undocumented."[3]

A situation similar to that of the Dubuque incident involving Ramos occurred on October 24, 2015, as news crews belonging to Noticias Univision and Miami owned-and-operated station WLTV-DT – although the division and station were reportedly given media clearance to cover the event – was ordered to leave a campaign event held for Trump at the hotel on the Trump National Doral Miami complex (located near Univision's Doral studios) by an off-duty police officer who informed them that they were not allowed on the property.[52][53]

See also

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