Media Moves

Rolando Nichols has been selected to anchor Noticias MundoFox – the startup network’s national newscast, which will air live on both coasts at 6 p.m. daily. The announcement was made today, after MundoFox unveiled the inaugural programming lineup for the startup network scheduled to launch this summer, slightly ahead of the initial fall projected date. Rolando is currently [...]

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Spanish Broadcasting System Inc., (SBS) has promoted Albert Rodríguez to Chief Operating Officer (COO) effective immediately. He’ll be responsible for the day-to-day operations of SBS and continue to oversee the revenue and profit performance of the company’s consolidated operations, including radio, television, interactive and entertainment divisions. This is Albert’s third promotion in a little over [...]

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Telemundo has signed actress Adamari López to become a co-host of “Levántate,” the network’s weekday morning show.  She’ll join the rest of the cast this summer. Broadcast live from Miami, “Levántate” airs from 7 to 10 am ET.  The show is currently hosted by Rashel Díaz, Daniel Sarcos, Omar Germenos and Azucena Cierco. Ramón Zayas anchors the [...]

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Juan Carlos Rodríguez, the former CEO of Televisa Deportes Network (TDN), has been named President of Univision Deportes. He will be based in Miami and will report directly to César Conde. Rodríguez helped launched TDN, a sports channel from Grupo Televisa’s pay television package Televisa Networks, in July of 2009. Prior to joining TDN, he was the founder [...]

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José Cruz, Jr has joined ESPN as an MLB analyst. The former Gold Glove Award-winning Major League Baseball outfielder will be a contributor on ESPN’s ”Baseball Tonight” and “Béisbol Esta Noche” on ESPN Deportes. José played 12 MLB seasons. He won the Rawlings Gold Glove Award in 2003 when he was with the San Francisco Giants. He [...]

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CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California has released the names of the winners of the 13th Rubén Salazar Journalism Awards. Correspondent Yvette Cabrera and producer Saúl González of KCET- TV are won in the TV category for their story “The Border Between Them,” which tells the story of an immigrant family and how ties between parents [...]

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Jorge Carballo has been named President and General Manager of WSCV-51. Since 1995, he has been General Sales Manager of the Telemundo O&O in Miami. He previously held several sales positions at Univision 23, WQBA Radio, Hispanic International Television and Cable Marketing Systems.  He has over 28 years of sales experience in the South Florida [...]

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José Cancela has been named President and General Manager of WKAQ, the Telemundo O&O in Puerto Rico, just two days after Celia Chávez replaced him in Los Angeles’ KVEA-52, where he held the same role for less than a year. Prior to taking over as President and General Manager of KVEA in August of 2011, [...]

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Ronald Day, VP of programming and promotions for the Univision Network, is no longer with the company. A Univision spokesperson has confirmed he has resigned, but insiders tell me his departure was not amicable. I’m told he was unceremoniously fired yesterday. Ronald had been with Univision for 20 years. He started as a producer for “Cristina” [...]

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Celia Chávez has been named President and General Manager at KVEA- 52 in Los Angeles, effective immediately.  She replaces José Cancela, who was named to that position in August of 2011. José will remain in Telemundo in a yet to be announced leadership role. Celia was most recently President and General Manager of Telemundo WSNS-Chicago, [...]

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