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Citizenship Push Aims to Create Latino Voters
The nation's largest Spanish-language broadcaster is preparing to launch an unprecedented citizenship drive that could sway the 2008 presidential election. Univison's "Ya Es Hora" ("It's About Time")...
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Dems' Miami Debate Makes Foray Into Spanish
Democratic hopefuls took part in a Spanish-language debate in Miami yesterday, having questions translated UN-style from Spanish to English, and answers back again into Spanish. Though he'd agreed to...
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Why GOP No-Shows Are Dissing Minorities
The African-American audience watching tonight's GOP presidential debate will see four empty lecterns representing the front-runners who declined to participate. Since the top three also declined a...
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Obama Blanked Top Papers But Took Tough Questions
President Obama bypassed reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other major papers last night, instead taking questions from Spanish-language TV station Univision...
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Gloria Estefan Grills Obama—About Xmas
Gloria Estefan’s interview with President Obama—conducted for a Univision Christmas special—didn't exactly delve into immigration reform or health care. Politico offers up the complete transcript. Some...
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California Rep: 'The Vietnamese' Want Me Out
A Democratic congresswoman from California is taking heat today after telling Univision “the Vietnamese” are after her seat. “The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take...
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Meet Tom Hanks, Spanish Weatherman
Tom Hanks went on Univision's Despierta America ostensibly to promote his upcoming film Larry Crowne. But things took a turn for the wacky when he got involved with the weather report, PopEater...
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Disney, Univision in News Channel Talks
Disney and Univision are in talks to create a new English-language channel to enter the 24-hour TV news war, insiders tell the Wall Street Journal . The venture would be aimed at English-speaking...
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A TV First: NBC Finishes Last in Sweeps
If there are four big networks and you finish fifth in the ratings, that's not good, right? Such is the fate of NBC in the February sweeps, reports Deadline . In the 20-day period, it had an average...
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World Cup Sets US Ratings Records
ESPN and Univision have scored with their World Cup coverage: The US victory over Ghana Monday night set World Cup ratings records for both broadcasters, with a total audience of 15.9 million viewers....
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Univision Fires Host Over Michelle Obama Comment
Talk show host Rodner Figueroa was fired from Univision after saying that Michelle Obama looks like someone from the cast of Planet of the Apes . Figueroa, who's known for his biting fashion...
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Univision Dumps Miss USA Over Trump
Several things stood out when Donald Trump announced his presidential bid — liberal glee, conservative scorn , escalators, paid supporters —but what many in the Latino community heard was his proposal...
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Trump: Univision Is Conspiring With Mexico
The Donald Trump-Univision spat looks like it could outlast the Donald Trump 2016 campaign. Trump's lawyer says his client plans to sue the network for "hundreds of millions" over its decision to drop...
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Trump to Univision: You're Sued
Donald Trump is a man of his word, at least when that word is "sue." The GOP candidate made good on his threat to sue Univision for hundreds of millions of dollars yesterday, filing a $500 million...
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Univision Reporter Kicked Out of Trump Event
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos is one of the most influential journalists in America—in any language—but that didn't stop Donald Trump's security officers from physically removing him from a news...
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Univision Kicked Out of Trump Rally
A Univision crew was kicked out of a Donald Trump rally in Florida yesterday—and they weren't the only ones to get the boot. The campaign event was being held at the Trump National Doral hotel, near...
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Univision Buys Controlling Stake in ... the Onion?
"Area Satiric Publication The Onion Sold to Univision" sounds like the start of a jokey headline you'd read in—well, the Onion. But in this case, NPR is adding a (Seriously) to the end of that,...
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Univision Buys Gawker for $135M
It appears the bankrupt Gawker has a new owner: Univision. The company best known for Spanish-language television bought Gawker Tuesday at auction for $135 million, the New York Times reports. The...
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Univision Bought Gawker Only to Kill Gawker
Univision may have purchased Gawker Media for $135 million at bankruptcy auction this week, but that deal apparently didn't include Gawker itself. In a post Thursday, Gawker announced it will shut down...
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Gawker's Denton to Get $200K Salary for Not Competing
It's not clear what Gawker founder Nick Denton will do next now that new owner Univision is shutting down Gawker.com itself, but he'll be decently compensated for two years as he figures it out:...
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