| Noticiero Univision | |
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| Also known as | Noticiero Nacional SIN(1981–1983) Noticiero SIN(1983–1987) Noticiero Univision: Fin de Semana(weekend editions, 1990–present) Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna(weeknight late-evening editions, 1990–1999 and 2011–present) Noticiero Univision: Ultima Hora(weeknight late-evening editions, 1999–2011) |
| Genre | News program |
| Presented by | Weeknights: Ilia Calderón (2017–present) Edición Nocturna: Elián Zidán (2023-present) Weekends: Félix de Bedout (2012–present) (for past anchors, see section below) |
| Theme music composer | Carlos Marmo Agustin Barreto |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | Spanish |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Univision NewsPort,Doral,Florida |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Noticias Univision |
| Original release | |
| Network | Spanish International Network |
| Release | June 1, 1981 (1981-06-01) – 1987 (1987) |
| Network | Univision |
| Release | 1987 (1987) – present |
Noticiero Univision (Spanish for 'Univision News';Spanish pronunciation:[notiˈsjeɾowniβiˈsjon]) is the flagship daily eveningtelevision news program ofNoticias Univision, the news division of theAmericanSpanish languagebroadcasttelevision networkUnivision. First aired on June 1, 1981, for Spanish International Network, the program provides a general rundown of the day's headlines, with a story focus that skews more towards events occurring inLatin America; story content relating to the United States on the program centers on news stories and issues of interest toHispanic and Latino Americans (with reports focusing onimmigration and diplomatic relations with Latin America highlighted regularly, as well as issues relating to government,healthcare and economic issues).
Since 1988, the flagship early-evening broadcast has been co-anchored byJorge Ramos andMaría Elena Salinas; the program's late-evening edition,Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna (Spanish for 'Univision News: Late Edition'), is currently anchored byIlia Calderón (who has served as anchor of that edition since 2009) andEnrique Acevedo (who joined the program in 2012). The program's weekend editions,Noticiero Univision: Fin de Semana (Spanish for 'Univision News: Weekend'), are currently co-anchored byFélix de Bedout (who joined the program in 2011) and Arantxa Loizaga (who became co-anchor in 2014).
The two evening programs are respectively broadcast live at 6:30 and 11:35 p.m.Eastern Time andPacific Time seven nights a week (with rebroadcasts at 11:00 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. Eastern and Pacific, respectively for the early and late editions; the former of the two rebroadcasts is usually preempted by local newscasts on most of the network's broadcast stations). In addition, the parent Noticias Univision division airs co-branded hourly, one-minute news capsules under the titleBreve Informativo de Noticiero Univision (Spanish for 'Univision News Brief') that air during commercial breaks – except those featured during the early- and late-evening newscasts – throughout the broadcast day on the network. Often, there will be special reports under the titleInforme Especial de Noticiero Univision (Spanish for 'Univision News Special Report').
It is currently the most watched Spanish language network newscast in the United States, regularly beating its nearest rival,Telemundo'sNoticiero Telemundo; it is also has some of the highest viewership among the key demographic of adults ages 18 to 49 among all evening news programs in the U.S., second only toNBC Nightly News, with a median viewer age of 44, at least ten years younger than the average age of its English language evening news competitors.[1][2][3] The program is based out of Noticias Univision's "NewsPort" facilities inDoral,Florida.
As the Spanish International Network (SIN),KMEX began broadcasting news programs on June 1, 1981, when the network debuted a weeknight newscast,Noticiero Nacional SIN ("SIN National News"), which originally aired as a single half-hour broadcast each weeknight at 6:30 p.m.Eastern Time. Guillermo Restrepo served as the newscast's first anchor and was later joined by Teresa Abate (later Teresa Rodriguez) - the latter of whom became the first Hispanic female anchor of a national newscast in the United States.
In 1987, after Spanish International Network co-founder Emilio Nicolas Sr. andEmilio Azcárraga Milmo (co-owner ofMexican broadcasterTelevisa, who assumed part-ownership of SIN from his fatherEmilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta in 1972) sold their interests in parent company Spanish International Communications toHallmark Cards after theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) and theU.S. Justice Department asked them to divest the network to a U.S.-based company amid inquiries into Nicolas' use by the Azcárraga family to skirt agency rules prohibiting foreign ownership of broadcast media outlets, In 1987, the network – which was renamed Univision following the purchase – appointed formerNBC News producer Roberto FE Soto to produce a revamped flagship evening newscast,Noticiero Univision.[4]
Mexican-born journalistJorge Ramos – who joined SIN in 1984 as a reporter for KMEX and later host of the network's firstmorning program,Mundo Latino – was reassigned and paired alongside veteran KMEX journalistMaría Elena Salinas – who replaced Teresa Rodriguez as anchor – to co-anchor the evening newscast.[4] In 1989, the program expanded to include a late-evening newscast,Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna ("Univision News: Evening Edition"), at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Time, which was solo anchored by Ramos throughout its original run; as well as two half-hour weekend editions under the titleNoticiero Univision: Fin de Semana. For much of its existence, the late-night edition maintained a similar format to the early-evening broadcast, albeit with more of a focus on major news headlines and utilizes separate anchors on the weeknight editions.
In 1999, Univision hired veteran journalistEnrique Gratas – original host of theTelemundo newsmagazineOcurrió Así – to anchor a revamped late-night newscast,Noticiero Univision: Ultima Hora ("Univision News: Final Hour"); Sergio Urquidi was subsequently appointed as weekend anchor ofNoticiero Univision (joiningMaría Antonieta Collins who has been anchoringFin de Semana since 1990) andUltima Hora. Debuting on October 23, 1999, of that year, the hour-longUltima Hora (which reverted to a half-hour format in 2004) was modeled after the original format ofNightline, providing in-depth stories and analysis on three or four of the day's major news stories that were previously covered on the flagship evening newscast – occasionally coveringlate-breaking stories which had occurred since that broadcast – and interviews with newsmakers.[5]
In the summer of 2004, Telemundo signed María Antonieta Collins – who had been anchor of the weekend editions ofNoticiero Univision – to a long-term contract to host a morning news and lifestyle program for the network,Cada Dia with Maria Antonieta ("Every Day with Maria Antonieta") (Collins would return to Noticias Univision as a senior special correspondent in 2011[6]). On October 24, 2005,Edna Schmidt – then the national news anchor of theNoticias al Minuto newsbriefs on sister network TeleFutura (nowUniMás) – was named as Collins' replacement as co-anchor of the weekend newscasts, joining Urquidi on the early evening edition.[7]
On February 28, 2009, Univision terminated the contracts of Enrique Gratas and Sergio Urquidi as part of corporate cutbacks enacted by parent companyUnivision Communications spurred by theGreat Recession and a sharp downturn in advertising spending, which resulted in the layoffs of 300 employees (or 6% of its workforce), as well as the cancellation of the weekend editions of the newsmagazinePrimer Impacto and its companion programPrimer Impacto Extra. The late-night edition retained theUltima Hora brand, though restoring a more traditional newscast format.[8][9] On May 29, 2009, Enrique Teuteló – then the 11:00 p.m. anchor at Univision'sMiamiowned-and-operated stationWLTV-DT – was named as Urquidi's replacement on the weekend editions ofÚltima Hora andNoticiero Univision: Fin de Semana.[10]
On March 3, 2011, Univision correspondentMartin Berlanga announced while substituting during that evening's edition ofUltima Hora that he would taking over as weekend anchor, replacing Enrique Teuteló, who was terminated by the news division the day prior (he would subsequently become morning co-anchor at the network'sNew York Cityowned-and-operated stationWXTV-DT that June). Then on March 7, the network announced thatIlia Calderón would be named anchor of the late evening edition, which was retitled to its original nameNoticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna, while retaining her duties as co-anchor ofPrimer Impacto.[11][12] After a brief sabbatical from the weekend editions, Edna Schmidt was subsequently reassigned to weeknight co-anchor of the late newscast, before being let go by Noticias Univision after 19 years with the network on September 11, 2011, while in New York City to cover the ceremonies in remembrance of the 10th anniversary of theSeptember 11 attacks.[13]
On January 10, 2012, Univision removed Berlanga from his duties as anchor of the weekend newscasts after only ten months, effective after the January 15 edition ofFin de Semana, in which Berlanga did not indicate he would no longer anchor the weekend broadcasts; he was reassigned to a correspondent role, before Berlanga departed from the network after 17 years in March.[14][15][16]¡Despierta América! news co-anchorFélix de Bedout and longtimeTelevisa anchor/correspondent Lourdes Ramos (sister of main anchor Jorge Ramos) were concurrently named as his replacements; originally slated to start together on January 21, de Bedout debuted that week as solo anchor of the Saturday and Sunday editions, with Ramos joining him on the following week on January 28.[17][18]
On January 23, 2012, the program introduced a new graphics package; it also relocated production ofNoticiero Univision andEdición Nocturna to a new set branded as "[el] Centro de Noticias" ("[the] News Center"). The set was later updated to incorporate the new version of Univision's universal corporate logo, which debuted on January 1, 2013.[19]
On April 23, 2012, former Telemundo anchor and special correspondentEnrique Acevedo joined Univision as a co-anchor ofNoticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna (at which time, the late editions of the weekend broadcasts adopted that same title), alongside Ilia Calderón.[20][21] In September 2012, Univision began to timeshift the Saturday early-evening editions ofNoticiero Univision: Fin de Semana one hour earlier in theEastern,Central andMountain Time Zones (at 5:30 p.m. Eastern and 4:30 p.m. in the other two) since 2012, following the addition ofsoccer matches that precede Univision's prime time variety programming, on weeks in which those matches are scheduled to air within the newscast's regular 6:30/5:30 timeslot.
On October 1, 2012, theAcademy of Television Arts and Sciences honored main anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas withLifetime Achievement Awards at the33rd News & Documentary Emmy Awards for their journalistic work withNoticiero Univision and its parent news division.[22] In September 2013, Univision moved production of its evening newscasts to the Univision NewsPort, based in a converted former office and warehouse complex near Univision's network headquarters in theMiami exurb ofDoral, Florida that would also house the operations ofFusion, Univision'scable news venture withABC News. The NewsPort houses five studios and fivecontrol rooms, one of which – located directly next to the newsroom offices – began housing the "Centro de Noticias" set in February 2015, following completion of the set's reassembly in the NewsPort building; allNoticias Univision broadcasts were conducted from the newsroom in the interim.[23]
On July 14, 2014, Lourdes Ramos stepped down as weekend co-anchor to relocate toMadrid with her husband, although she would remain with Noticias Univision as a special correspondent.[24] On September 3, 2014, Noticias Univision announced that Arantxa Loizaga (who joined the network in 2007 fromSan Antonio owned-and-operated stationKWEX-DT, where she served as anchor of its 10:00 p.m. newscast and co-host of the community affairs magazine program,Portada San Antonio) would become co-anchor ofNoticiero Univision: Fin de Semana, effective Saturday, September 6.[25][26] In February 2021, Loizaga resigned from her position after being hired by Univision's competitorTelemundo, where she would host their new morning show,Hoy Día.
On December 8, 2017, Maria Elena Salinas stepped down as weekday anchor and departed Univision after 36 years with the network to focus on being an independent news producer with Ilia Calderón being named as co-anchor to the weekday newscasts with Jorge Ramos. Subsequently, Patricia Janiot joined Univision on January 29, 2018 to anchorEdición Nocturna after departing her previous position atCNN en Español)[27][28]