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Morcate and Pons ousted in WLTV-23 restructuring

February 10, 2015 by Veronica Villafañe

Daniel Morcate and Roberto Pons
Daniel Morcate (L) and Roberto Pons.

News director Daniel Morcate and Executive Producer Roberto Pons have been relieved of their duties at Univision’s WLTV-23 in Miami, less than a year after taking over those roles.

The removals of Morcate and Pons are part of a reorganization of the news management at the Univision O&O, which has lost ratings ground to Telemundo’s WSCV-51.

Both men were notified of the change today. Inside sources say they were offered other positions within the company, but no further details are available at this time.

Roberto Vizcon
Roberto Vizcon

Roberto Vizcón, Univision’s Director of News and Special Projects, Local News since October of last year, will be the interim news director for Noticias 23 while the company conducts a search for a permanent news director and executive producer.

Morcate was named news director in May of 2014 after Emilio Marrero’s departure in December of 2013. He previously spent 20 years at Univision network as Chief Newsroom Editor.

Pons was named EP just 5 months ago, after working 10 years on Univision network’s assignment desk.

Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Daniel Morcate, Roberto Pons, Univision, WLTV

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  1. DelDoral says

    February 10, 2015 at 5:49 PM

    Que paso ? el experimento salio mal, Sr. Coronell ?
    Una queja es un caso, pero muchas, un problema legal por explotar.
    Era solo cuestion de tiempo.
    Se ha sudado mucho la camiseta en ese 23 para que los hubiesen premiado con semejante par.

  2. Alberto Perez-Martinez says

    February 11, 2015 at 3:18 AM

    This is another example of how the centralization of the station group news operations under the Network News (aka Isaac Lee and his Ivy League Boys) has miserably failed.

    O&O operations HAVE ALWAYS operated successfully as an separate structure in every UD Network. And before Mr. LEE dismantled the station group operation, the Univision Television Group operated fine.

    Dismantling UTG without a plan, while Comcast pumped money at Telemundo stations was simple short-sighted.

    Add this disaster to the FIASCO FUSION has been ($100 million and counting) and you start to wonder how Isaac Lee keeps adding titles under his belt….

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Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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