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Telemundo Puerto Rico launches weekend newscasts

Posted on 29 May 2014. Tags:

Starting this Saturday, May 31, Telemundo Puerto Rico will once again produce weekend newscasts. “Telenoticias Fin de Semana” will air Saturdays and Sundays at 5 and 10 pm.

The newscasts will be followed at 10:30 pm with “Deportes Xtra,” a half-hour show also produced by the Telemundo news department.

The weekend edition newscasts will be anchored by reporters Marjorie Ramírez and Ricardo Currás. Héctor Vázquez Muñíz will be in charge of sports and Yara Lasanta will be the weather anchor. Reporters Carlos Rubén Rodríguez and Kaly Esther Toro round up the team.

The Telenoticias Fin se Semana team. From L to R: Yara La Santa, Marjorie Ramirez, Héctor Vázquez Muñiz, Ricardo Currás, Carlos Ruben Rodriguez and Kaly Esther Toro

The Telenoticias Fin se Semana team. From L to R: Yara La Santa, Marjorie Ramirez, Héctor Vázquez Muñiz, Ricardo Currás, Carlos Ruben Rodriguez and Kaly Esther Toro

All are new hires. With the exception of Rodríguez, all are former Univision Puerto Rico employees. That station canceled weekend newscasts in January of this year.

According to José Cancela, president and GM of Telemundo Puerto Rico, the station had plans for a 2015 launch of weekend newscast, but sped up the process when Univision shut down its weekend news operation.

“As goes the news, goes the station is a long standing mantra in our business, and one that the Telemundo Station Group Leadership very much believes in,” says Cancela. “So when Univision pulled the plug on their weekend editions, we immediately received the green light to accelerate our weekend news launch from 2015 to now.”

Telemundo Puerto Rico previously had weekend newscasts, but they were canceled in 2004.

 

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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