Telemundo Internacional
Encyclopedia
Telemundo Puerto Rico, also known as Telemundo Internacional, is a Latin America
n cable channel.
's second 24-hour news channel that did not broadcast from Latin America (NBC's Canal de Noticias NBC, launched two months earlier from Charlotte, NC, was the first). It was based out of Miami, Florida. During the mid-90s
, Telenoticias was owned by Reuters
(42%), Telemundo (42%), Grupo Clarín
(8%, Argentina
) and Antena 3 (8%, Spain
), and it broadcast in Spanish
and Portuguese
. From the beginning, the group's several owners did not have a smooth relationship.
Some American stations carried programs from the channel, such as KUBD
in Denver; WSNS in Chicago; and KQBN
in Tucson. Anchors during this time included Marian De La Fuente, Jose Gray, Carlos Maria Ruiz, Rodrigo Vera, Pablo Gato, and Susana Roza Vigil.
In late June 1996, CBS
bought out the network, marking its first cable venture. By this point, the channel was broadcast to 20 million homes in 22 countries. In 1997, it was rebranded CBS Telenoticias. The Telemundo network struck a deal, buying 2 newscasts from the company and airing them at 6:30 p.m and at 10:00. The network also was able to utilize the CBS Newspath news feed to supplement their content as well. The company used the CBS Newspath headquarters in Washington to house a small crew of reporters. The network launched in the United States in 1997 with a service that emphasized the United States, Caribbean, and Mexico; featured two issues-focused talk shows; and launched, unluckily, on the same date as CNN en Español
.
In late 1997, CBS TeleNoticias began providing news programs to Radio Unica, which launched in December of that year as the first national Spanish-language radio network in the United States.
's news channel instead. In addition, the launch of the channel had already been forced into a delay because the satellite it was to be carried on, PanAmSat 5 (launched in August 1997), became operational only on the 12th of October, and cable operators were receiving satellite dishes to carry the channel off the satellite later than expected.
CBS sold its stake in Telenoticias to then-Telemundo owners Sony Pictures Entertainment
and Liberty Media
in early 2000 for the price of $2.35 million as approved by federal bankruptcy court. With the new owners, the network changed its name to Telemundo Internacional.
and Mun2
, with some shows produced by Telemundo Internacional, like Hoy en América and América en vivo and four newscasts, some of which were re-aired on Telemundo. Senior anchor, Marian de la Fuente,is the only original anchor to continue on air, also as Managing Editor.
In 2005, the news was cut back and the Mun2 shows were dropped. The channel started to broadcast some old telenovelas produced by Colombia
n company RTI, which has had a content partnership with Telemundo as a whole.
Despite losing viewers when Dish Network replaced the channel for CNN En Español, the network continued until early in 2006
, when the Telemundo network decided to reform the channel as Telemundo Puerto Rico in order to compete with WAPA-TV
, which was launching a national superstation channel. That same year, Dish Network added Telemundo Puerto Rico back to its lineup on channel 837. The channel is no longer available on Dish Network.
Later that year, NBC Universal
, the current owner of Telemundo Puerto Rico, announced a restructuring plan (known as NBCU 2.0) to cut costs and jobs. The morning, afternoon, and weekend editions of Telenoticias were pulled on 1 December 2006. No replacement programming for Telemundo Puerto Rico has since been announced.
channel two in Puerto Rico. The network airs newscasts under the following schedule:
Telemundo Puerto Rico also airs a 60-minute gossip and analysis program "Dando Candela" ; a mid-day 90-minutes entertainment program "Dia a Dia" and a cooking show of 30-minutes "Operación Chef".
One oddity about Telemundo Puerto Rico is that it airs no traditional adverts; instead, breaks feature 90% public service announcements, 5% promos for Telemundo Puerto Rico programs, and the remaining 5% devoted to a Puerto Rico video travelogue.
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
n cable channel.
Launch
Telemundo Internacional began in December 1994 as Telenoticias, Latin AmericaLatin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
's second 24-hour news channel that did not broadcast from Latin America (NBC's Canal de Noticias NBC, launched two months earlier from Charlotte, NC, was the first). It was based out of Miami, Florida. During the mid-90s
1990s
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, Telenoticias was owned by Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
(42%), Telemundo (42%), Grupo Clarín
Clarín (newspaper)
Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group. It was founded by Roberto Noble on 28 August 1945. It is politically centrist but popularly understood to oppose the Kirchner government...
(8%, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
) and Antena 3 (8%, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
), and it broadcast in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
. From the beginning, the group's several owners did not have a smooth relationship.
Some American stations carried programs from the channel, such as KUBD
KPXC-TV
KPXC-TV, channel 59, is a television station licensed to Denver, Colorado that broadcasts on UHF channel 43. The station is an affiliate of the ION Television network in Denver, Colorado and is owned and operated by ION Media Networks.-History:...
in Denver; WSNS in Chicago; and KQBN
KUDF-LP
KUDF-LP is a low-power television station located in Tucson, Arizona. It is owned by Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC of Dallas, Texas and is an affiliate of Azteca America...
in Tucson. Anchors during this time included Marian De La Fuente, Jose Gray, Carlos Maria Ruiz, Rodrigo Vera, Pablo Gato, and Susana Roza Vigil.
In late June 1996, CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
bought out the network, marking its first cable venture. By this point, the channel was broadcast to 20 million homes in 22 countries. In 1997, it was rebranded CBS Telenoticias. The Telemundo network struck a deal, buying 2 newscasts from the company and airing them at 6:30 p.m and at 10:00. The network also was able to utilize the CBS Newspath news feed to supplement their content as well. The company used the CBS Newspath headquarters in Washington to house a small crew of reporters. The network launched in the United States in 1997 with a service that emphasized the United States, Caribbean, and Mexico; featured two issues-focused talk shows; and launched, unluckily, on the same date as CNN en Español
CNN en Español
CNN en Español is CNN's Spanish language news channel. On March 17, 1997, CNN launched CNN en Español, a 24-hour Spanish-language news network for the Hispanic American and United States marketplace.-Mexico programming:...
.
In late 1997, CBS TeleNoticias began providing news programs to Radio Unica, which launched in December of that year as the first national Spanish-language radio network in the United States.
Brazil
The Brazilian version of the channel, a 14-hour-a-day operation launched in 1997 (under the slightly different CBS Telenotícias title), gained a coup early, striking a deal with Jornal do SBT to share resources. But Net Brasil, a major joint venture cable company owned by major media companies in that country, refused to carry the channel, possibly due to a preference for GloboGlobo
Globo may refer to*Organizações Globo, media conglomerate*Rede Globo, a television network in Brazil*Radio Globo, a radio station in Honduras...
's news channel instead. In addition, the launch of the channel had already been forced into a delay because the satellite it was to be carried on, PanAmSat 5 (launched in August 1997), became operational only on the 12th of October, and cable operators were receiving satellite dishes to carry the channel off the satellite later than expected.
1998: Sale, bankruptcy and sale
In the first quarter of 1998 alone, Telenoticias and Eye on People lost $9 million combined. In late 1998, CBS sold 70% of the channel to Mexican-based Grupo Medcom, as the former continued to provide the news resources; it also sold its Eye on People stake. By July 1999, some phones at one of its bureaus were disconnected; paychecks came late; and reimbursements were never paid out. It laid off 77 people at the end of the month, then filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy days later.CBS sold its stake in Telenoticias to then-Telemundo owners Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony...
and Liberty Media
Liberty Media
Liberty Media Corporation is an American media conglomerate and the control is exercised by company Chairman John C. Malone, who owns a majority of the voting shares....
in early 2000 for the price of $2.35 million as approved by federal bankruptcy court. With the new owners, the network changed its name to Telemundo Internacional.
As Telemundo Internacional and Puerto Rico
The 24 hour news service would be restructured to be a bilingual entertainment channel airing programs from the Telemundo networkTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
and Mun2
Mun2
mun2 is a national cable television broadcast network in the United States owned by NBC Universal and aimed at young Latinos. It is the sister network of Telemundo and was mostly digital television subchannels launched in 2001. The programming of mun2 is primarily music videos and shows designed...
, with some shows produced by Telemundo Internacional, like Hoy en América and América en vivo and four newscasts, some of which were re-aired on Telemundo. Senior anchor, Marian de la Fuente,is the only original anchor to continue on air, also as Managing Editor.
In 2005, the news was cut back and the Mun2 shows were dropped. The channel started to broadcast some old telenovelas produced by Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
n company RTI, which has had a content partnership with Telemundo as a whole.
Despite losing viewers when Dish Network replaced the channel for CNN En Español, the network continued until early in 2006
2006 in television
2006 in television may refer to:*2006 in American television*2006 in Australian television*2006 in British television*2006 in Canadian television*2006 in Japanese television...
, when the Telemundo network decided to reform the channel as Telemundo Puerto Rico in order to compete with WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV is an independent television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital channel 27, virtual channel 4. The station is owned by InterMedia Partners and is branded as WAPA Television....
, which was launching a national superstation channel. That same year, Dish Network added Telemundo Puerto Rico back to its lineup on channel 837. The channel is no longer available on Dish Network.
Later that year, NBC Universal
NBC Universal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...
, the current owner of Telemundo Puerto Rico, announced a restructuring plan (known as NBCU 2.0) to cut costs and jobs. The morning, afternoon, and weekend editions of Telenoticias were pulled on 1 December 2006. No replacement programming for Telemundo Puerto Rico has since been announced.
Programming on Telemundo Puerto Rico
Telemundo Puerto Rico is also a collaboration with WKAQ-TVWKAQ-TV
WKAQ-TV is a full-power television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital 2.1. The station is owned and operated by NBCUniversal and is branded simply as Telemundo....
channel two in Puerto Rico. The network airs newscasts under the following schedule:
- Telenoticias 5pm: M-F 5pm-6pm
- Telenoticias 10pm: M-F 10pm-10:30pm
Telemundo Puerto Rico also airs a 60-minute gossip and analysis program "Dando Candela" ; a mid-day 90-minutes entertainment program "Dia a Dia" and a cooking show of 30-minutes "Operación Chef".
One oddity about Telemundo Puerto Rico is that it airs no traditional adverts; instead, breaks feature 90% public service announcements, 5% promos for Telemundo Puerto Rico programs, and the remaining 5% devoted to a Puerto Rico video travelogue.