Posted on 11/20/2019 7:36:53 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Tears, fears, frustrations, intrigue and painful farewells – they are the ingredients of any good telenovela. But on March 9, these emotions broke free from the land of fiction and inundated the lives of the employees of the main Spanish language television networks in the United States.
Read more: From poverty to powerful: This Univision star is living her best life
Few employees are not in fear of losing their jobs. Uncertainty reigns as the industry falters with young bilingual Hispanics choosing English television on demand.
The crisis even has top management baffled. In fact, Randy Falco, the CEO of Spanish-language television giant Univision Communications, announced his retirement this week. This happened unexpectedly just four months after the company renewed his contract.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
I don’t know any native Spanish speakers who appreciated the anti-Trump message these networks pushed out.
They all love Trump!
Oh dear. Trump is interfering with the process of Balkanization, so important to MSM-Democrat plans.
Their definition of “crisis” is definitely different than mine.
The Miami Herald is close on their heels with the parent company talking bankruptcy. Demographics change, managers and editors fail to see that, let their biases lead them off the financial cliff.
Ever since Gigante Sabado disappeared it just hasn’t been the same.
I would suggest that in the 1980s (the very beginning) and 1990s....Telemundo had an audience, and relatively decent numbers. Their downfall started around 2001 when NBC bought them...a decade later...with Comcast (2011) arriving as the new ‘boss’...they were politicized to a great degree.
It’s the same problem however, as ESPN. Once you politicize something, it’s worthless to half the audience.
They don’t want to watch Mexican soap operas starring Eric Estrada?
*** Ever since Gigante Sabado disappeared it just hasn’t been the same. ***
Total Gringo here who used to watch that back in the 80’s.
“Uncertainty reigns as the industry falters with young bilingual Hispanics choosing English television on demand.”
At one time there were German language newspapers published the United States. There was even a Macedonian newspaper published in Indianapolis (it was always on my grandfather’s table). Those papers are no longer in circulation. Because the second or third generation of descendants assimilated.
immigrants of all stripes have always known that the way to get ahead in the U.S. is to learn the national language, namely English ... this has always been accomplished no later than the first native-born generation ... Hispanics are no different ... it’s pretty obvious that there never was going to be a permanent, insular, hispanic, spanish-speaking-only group living in the U.S., so anyone who invested in communications media that made that assumption were fools ...
(btw, i’m reading Joe Pistone’s 3rd book, and at one point he talks about the rise and fall of Italian-language newspapers ... so this kind of assimilation has always occurred in the great melting-pot of the United State.)
I don’t know what I will do without Lara.
I don’t know what I will do without Lara.
They replaced the novelas with narco-dramas and shows from Turkey.
As long as that retromingent jackass Jorge Ramos is gone, the world will be a better place.
Trivia question
Which spoken language is the largest without a daily newspaper or tv channel?
Trivia question
Which spoken language is the largest without a daily newspaper or tv channel?
A great deal of people and businesses bet on Clinton (and lost) and bet on the politics and business that is hate Trump which is also a loser.
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