He also oversees Telemundo, the Spanish-language channel, and the company's distribution and domestic syndication efforts.
Eight years ago the very survival of America's number two Spanish-language broadcaster, Telemundo, was in question.
Which perhaps points to why Telemundo is talking to various suitors: to deepen its own pockets.
Rivera's "I Love Jenni" reality show began airing on Telemundo's mun2 network last year.
Any new owner of Telemundo will face the same challenge the current owners face: obtaining better programming.
Our prediction: An invigorated Telemundo would steal Univision's already defecting younger viewers--the group most coveted by advertisers.
Telemundo, a Spanish television station, was broadcasting video from Iraqi television that showed Americans in Iraq's custody.
Telemundo had a hit novela earlier this year, Betty La Fea (Ugly Betty), but Univision bought it up.
Coming from behind was Telemundo, which was about to be acquired by content heavyweights Sony Corp. and Liberty Media.
Yes, this Telemundo TV host and former Flamenco dancer is half his age.
Phillips has also served as morning anchor and reporter for KAMC-TV in Lubbock, Texas, and as a field producer for CNN-Telemundo in Washington, D.
After the fund sold out of Days Inns it put all the money into Telemundo, even though I asked them not to.
Telemundo won't comment about a possible sale, nor will the putative suitors.
Jenni Rivera was a singer-songwriter, actress and Telemundo TV star who died tragically on December 9, 2012 in a plane crash in Mexico.
It is also eyeing the fast-growing Hispanic media-market in America, so may start challenging the dominance of Univision and Telemundo, the two biggest Spanish-language networks.
Since our story ran, Univision's average number of young viewers during prime time has risen from 738, 000 to 974, 000, while Telemundo fell 11% to 107, 000.
But Telemundo might benefit from synergies in a bigger media group.
But you did hear the President talk to Telemundo in an interview yesterday about the reports from Thursday night about actions taken by the Israeli government.
The Discovery Channel will feature the Steven Spielberg-produced documentary "Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, " and the Spanish network Telemundo will broadcast a five-hour show from that location.
In 2012 Ardila Lulle struck a deal with Rupert Murdoch to create a Spanish-language channel for Hispanics in the U.S. to compete with Telemundo and Univision.
In a Telemundo interview, he was asked four separate times if he planned to revoke or keep the Obama directive, which will last for an initial period of two years.
General Electric ( GE - news - people )'s cable channels, Spanish-language Telemundo network and NBC's TV distribution units in addition NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios.
In addition to this deal, the company added new Telemundo content for its Latin American streaming services as well as signed a deal with BBC to offer its shows.
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Sony hopes that Telemundo, the failing channel for America's Latino population that it bought last year with Liberty Media, will increasingly draw on, and be drawn on by, the Latin American channels.
Comcast is the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates entertainment and news cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, local television station groups, television production operations, a major motion picture company and theme parks.
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Nikki Johnson said her parents were channel surfing Sunday -- looking for a cartoon for their granddaughter to watch -- when they saw video of their Shoshana being broadcast by Spanish-language television station Telemundo, before the family had even learned she was missing.
Working with companies like Reveille, Telemundo, Dots and Bag of Misfits, Paula and Infusion Development have developed a search tool that will power a Web-based casting process for reality and scripted TV and Web series, as well as advertising and anything that requires unique individuals on any screen.
The new venture will give Univision, the largest Spanish television network in the United States with 12 networks, 62 radio stations and 69 local TV stations, a great competitive advantage over its closest rivals, Telemundo (owned by NBC) and the recently created Mundo Fox, own by Fox News, a unit of News Corp.
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