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Andrea Linares and Carolina Sarassa.

Univision launches English-language newscast UNews

September 20, 2018 by Veronica Villafañe

As part of its expansion plans into English-language content, Univision’s news division has launched “UNews.”

Carolina Sarassa and Andrea Linares anchor the new English-language newscast that airs on Fusion TV Monday through Friday from 1 to 3 pm ET/PT (12 to 2 pm CT).

“UNews” will repurpose content from “Noticiero Univision,” as well as feature some original content produced by the Univision news team. Correspondents will also do English-language standups and file some of their stories in English.

“UNews” launched on Monday, September 17.

Univision has kept the project quiet, as it works out through the kinks in the “soft launch” phase.

Mark Lima, VP of News for Fusion and María Martínez-Guzmán, VP and Executive Producer of News Gathering for Univision, are overseeing production of “UNews.”

“With ‘UNews’ we aim to provide a new product for our English speaking audience from a Latino perspective,” Univision News President Daniel Coronell said in an emailed statement. “The daily two-hour broadcast will deliver national and international news coverage in a fresh, informal style drawing on the bilingual talent in our newsroom and the unique insights of our Hispanic correspondents across the nation and overseas. ‘UNews’ is an exciting step for our existing Univision Noticias team and will be a great platform to showcase our content to a new audience.”

The project is reminiscent of Fusion’s original purpose: to produce English-language news for a Hispanic millennial audience.

But the cable network, which ended up launching with an eclectic and confusing lineup in 2013, lost its way, its major partner in ABC and failed to reach and connect with a sizeable audience.

Filed Under: TV & Radio Tagged With: Fusion, UNews, Univision

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. El Avila Inflao says

    September 20, 2018 at 5:54 PM

    Pana, pero por qué hacen eso ? Una compañía que va camino a desaparecer, como lo es Fusión?
    Para qué ilusionar a estos empleados milénicos, cuando ellos mismos saben los milénicos ni sintonizan canales hispanos, Fusión incluído?
    Además, noticias del día anterior?
    Sabemos que les dale barato, sí. Que las instalaciones ya estan ahí, los técnicos, los talentos, pero chama, really?
    Que mamadera de gallo tan jalabolas esta!

  2. Manny Restrepo says

    September 21, 2018 at 9:20 AM

    The only thing I can say is ” ha, ha, ha , ha ” … Those two don’t like each other

  3. Ross E Rutledge says

    September 28, 2018 at 2:11 PM

    I am a 65 year old WASP who just discovered your channel. I found your format of the news from a Latino perspective very interesting and enjoyable primarily because it was fact driven rather than the bias driven news currently on the main channels.My initial take was you are trying to be balanced, fairly showing the different sides of an issue. Your interviews with our Latino neighbors were thought provoking. I will tell my friends about your show. Thanks.

  4. ccolombana says

    October 17, 2018 at 1:03 PM

    I just discovered your Unews format and I am American/latina. I like the format and the stories however if you think millennials will watch the news you are mistaken. As the mother of 3 latino millennials I can tell you that they do not watch the news and do not have the attention span.

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Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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