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| Division of: | Telemundo |
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| Founded: | 1999 (own division) |
| Headquarters: | Telemundo Center 2350 NW 117th Place,Miami,Florida, U.S. |
| Major bureaus: | International Headquarters, 2350 NW 117th Place, Miami, Florida Mexico Headquarters,Mexico City,Mexico Puerto Rico Headquarters San Juan,Puerto Rico |
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| Owner: | NBCUniversal News Group |
| Website: | www |
Noticias Telemundo (Spanish forTelemundo News);Spanish pronunciation:[noˈtisjasteleˈmundo]) isTelemundo'snews division. The division is owned by theNBCUniversal News Group, which is part ofNBCUniversal, a division ofComcast. Noticias Telemundo is based out of the network's facilities in theMiami suburb ofHialeah,Florida.
The division produces a flagship nightly early-evening newscastof the same name, focusing on international news and stories of relevance to the network's main target demographic ofHispanic and Latino Americans. Other programs produced by the news division includemorning news-talk showHoy Día,newsmagazine seriesAl Rojo Vivo con María Celeste, andSunday morning political affairs programEnfoque con Jose Diaz-Balart.
Noticias Telemundo maintains bureaus located at many of the network's television stations across theUnited States (particularly those owned by parent subsidiary Telemundo Station Group, that are owned-and-operated stations of the network) and throughoutLatin America, and uses video content fromEnglish language sister networkNBC's news divisionNBC News.
The history of Noticias Telemundo traces back to 1987, when the network debuted its first news programNoticiero Telemundo-HBC, a program produced through an outsourcing agreement with theMiami-based Hispanic-American Broadcasting Corporation that was anchored byLana Montalban;[3] following the program's cancellation, Montalban accepted an anchor position at the network'sNew York Cityowned-and-operated stationWNJU, where she served as an anchor of its evening newscasts until 1992.
The following year, on March 24, 1988, Telemundo entered into a partnership withcable news channelCNN to produce two daily newscasts, titledNoticiero Telemundo CNN ("Telemundo CNN News"); CNN took over production of the network's newscasts on May 31 of that year. In addition, CNN also produced an hour-long weekend news review program,Resumen Semanal Telemundo-CNN, and news briefs that aired five times per day for Telemundo.[4][5] Produced at theCNN Center inAtlanta, the program was anchored byJorge Gestoso andMaria Elvira Salazar. Salazar later left the program to become a reporter at rivalUnivision's news divisionNoticiero Univision;Chilean nativeCecilia Bolocco, a formerMiss Universe, was named as Salazar's replacement. The final incarnation produced in Atlanta was co-anchored byPatricia Janiot. In 1992,Enrique Gratas joined the network to serve as anchor ofOcurrió Así, a nightly newsmagazine providing in-depth stories dealing with issues pertinent to U.S. Hispanics and investigative reports.
In 1994, Telemundo launched its own 24-hour cable news channel, Telenoticias, which was operated as ajoint venture betweenArgentinean television networkArtear, Spain broadcasterAntena 3 andReuters.[6][7] The venture was not successful and the partners later sold the channel toCBS Cable in 1996, which rebranded the network as CBS Telenoticias and increased its distribution acrossNorth,Central andSouth America. Following the sale of Telenoticias to CBS, Telemundo entered into a content partnership with the channel to produce early-evening and prime time newscasts that would air on the broadcast network. CBS sold Telenoticias back to Telemundo in February 2000,[8] after which the network was relaunched as the entertainment-basedTelemundo Internacional.
Noticias Telemundo was founded as an in-house network news division on August 25, 1999, under the auspices of formerCBS News vice president Joe Peyronnin, who served as the Telemundo division's executive vice president until 2006.[9] After Telemundo's agreement with CBS Telenoticias ended the day prior, the network launched two half-hour evening newscasts on January 1, 2000, the nightly general news broadcastNoticiero Telemundo, which was produced out of Telemundo'sHialeah, Florida headquarters; and the weeknight-only late news programNoticiero Telemundo Internacional (the latter program was pre-empted on many of Telemundo's news-producing O&O stations and select affiliates, only airing on affiliates that did not operate their own news department, in the event that a station pre-empted their regular local newscasts during major national holidays or the network's national feed in markets where there was no in-market affiliate), an internationally focused news program produced out of its new bureau inMexico City.
In September 2000, the network launched a three-hour morning news program,Esta Mañana, the network's first national morning show entry, hosted byJose Diaz-Balart (who joined the network fromCBS, where he anchoredCBS This Morning prior to its cancellation) and former Univision anchor Gloria Calzada.[10] Additional news programs were created by the network in the wake of theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks:Esta Manana was replaced byHoy en el Mundo ("Today in the World") a program that ran from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. onTelemundo, an news program focused on national and international stories anchored by Diaz-Balart and Marian de la Fuente; it also launched a companion early morning newscast at 6:00 a.m. for stations that didn't have a local morning newscast called Noticiero TelemundoPrimera Hora ("First Hour"). Further more the launched a variety morning show that had a similar format to Esta Manaña called "De Mañanita" that aired from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Also in wake of theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks Telemundo launched another news program that aired weeknights called "Un Nuevo Mundo, Una Nacion Unida" that aired at 7 P.M. that program was anchored byPedro Sevcec andOcurrió Así anchor Ana Patricia Candiani, the show replaced a weeknight novela called "Provacame" that show was rescheduled[1]. In 2002, the network launched a late afternoon news and entertainment magazine series, similar in format to its Univision competitorPrimer Impacto,Al Rojo Vivo con Maria Celeste.
In 2005, Telemundo signed longtimeUnivision anchorMaría Antonieta Collins to a long-term contract, in which she would host a program for the network. The network then cancelledHoy en el Mundo on Telemundo and Primera Hora, replacing them on October 10, 2005, with a news and lifestyle program titledCada Dia with Maria Antonieta ("Every Day with Maria Antonieta"); Collins hosted the program, with Diaz-Balart serving as co-host and also serving as anchor of another early morning news program titledNoticiero Telemundo: Primera Hora ("Telemundo Newscast: First Hour"), before leaving that program and being replaced as anchor by Ana Patricia Candiani.
In 2007, Telemundo discontinued the Saturday and Sunday editions of the flagshipNoticiero Telemundo broadcast andAl Rojo Vivo, which were replaced with feature films and reality-based series (with the move, Univision became the only Spanish-language broadcast network to carry a weekend edition of its evening newscast and the only one carrying any non-sports news programming on weekends altogether); weekend editions ofNoticiero Telemundo were restored on October 4, 2014, focusing on general news, health and consumer segments, analysis of the previous week's major stories and a preview of events occurring in the coming week (which was scheduled 90 minutes earlier than the flagship weeknight editions, at 5:00 p.m.Eastern andPacific Time, to accommodate the network's prime time entertainment programming).[11]
Cada Dia was cancelled in May 2008, after Collins announced that she would leave Telemundo when her contract expired in August of that year return to news anchoring and as a result of low ratings for the program;[12]Noticiero Telemundo: Madrugada, meanwhile, was replaced by an hour-long music and dance program that was spun off from the network's Saturday afternoon seriesDescontrol. The former of the two morning news shows was replaced by a new hybrid news and lifestyle program (similar in format to Univision's¡Despierta América!),¡Levántate! ("Get Up"), which was initially broadcast and produced by out of the studios of the network'sSan Juan, Puerto Rico stationWKAQ-TV. The hybrid program, which was retitledUn Nuevo Día ("A New Day") in July 2012, originally included local participation of the network'sMiami owned-and-operated stationWSCV from its studios in the suburb ofMiramar, Florida, and bureaus located in New York City,Los Angeles and Mexico City. The show was later revamped in February 2011, discontinuing the local cut-ins and relocating its production operations to Telemundo's headquarters in Hialeah.[13][14][15]
In 2011, Telemundo debuted a half-hourSunday morning political and cultural affairs talk showEnfoque, hosted by Diaz-Balart, marking a restoration of weekend news programming on the network (outside of its weekend evening sports highlight programTitulares Telemundo); the program was expanded to one hour in January 2014.
On July 6, 2015,Noticiero Telemundo became the first national network newscast to produce an entire broadcast using mobile devices. Journalists reporting for the special "Digital Day" broadcast were equipped withsmartphones andtablet computers to record and transmit stories included on the broadcast, which was also streamed on Noticiero Telemundo'sPeriscope account, incorporating behind-the-scenes footage of the program's anchors and reporters during breaks within the program.[16]
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