Tuesday, March 31, 2009

WSJ: Univision lose widens

"Univision has also been struggling to make payments on nearly $10 billion of debt, because cash flow has fallen precipitously and cash on hand is declining. Much of the debt came from the company's $12.3 billion leveraged buyout by a consortium of private investors."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123844791484571009.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

MarketingProfs.com Event: Enrique J. Gonzales featured

http://www.marketingprofs.com/events/6/conference

http://www.marketingprofs.com/events/6/speakers

Portada: Hi5 social network site big with Latinos

Hi5, is the world's third-largest social network behind Facebook and MySpace It has a significant amount of share in Spanish-speaking countries. Spanish-speakers made up 40% of the site's 59.6 million January visitors. Overall, Hi5 gets about a quarter of Facebook's traffic and a little less than half of MySpace's, according to comScore.
http://www.portada-online.com/html/website/paid/2009/031809/Market-Intel.aspx

Monday, March 30, 2009

Analysts: Televisa - Spanish-language media powerhouse - strengthens ties with NBC's Telemundo.

So Telemundo extends the reach of the content it produces in line with the worldwide footprint of its parent companies GE and NBC, Televisa aggregates content further expanding its sphere of influence in Latin America, indirectly in the US and also in line with its global strategy and Univision at least in this transaction remains a US distributor of Televisa’s programming with limited efforts to date to produce effective content on its own.

http://www.glgroup.com/News/THE-IMPACT-OF-THE-TELEVISA--TELEMUNDO-CABLE-NETWORK-TO-UNIVISION-36283.html

Sunday, March 29, 2009

NYT: Minneapolis case study in health care for immigrants

"The clinic, open three half-days a week, is so busy that it is hard to get an appointment. Dr. Carmen Divertie, an internist from Peru, founded it 15 years ago, modeling it after a clinic for Russians at the hospital."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/health/29hispanic.html

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Obama appeals to Latinos on Univision

President Barack Obama told the viewers of a popular Latin music awards show Thursday that they must "stay involved and make your voices heard" as the nation fights its way out of troubled times.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMjhEKCfsHlvUrB9Xe5OqqoeyAxQD9761N3O3