ESPN Deportes's 'Super' Deal; UniMas Slates 'El Chapo' Series

Top Stories - January 21, 2016 Super Deal Brings Super Bowl to ESPN Deportes Spanish-language network ESPN Deportes will televise Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, gaining access to North America's biggest annual sporting event through a sublicensing deal with rights-holder CBS Sports. More» News UniMás Sets 'El Chapo' Narco-Novela for Fall UniMás is taking advantage of the Jan. 8 capture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman by announcing plans for a series about the infamous Mexican drug lord set to air this fall. More » Starz Sets Trio of Latino-Targeted Series Premium channel Starz is setting its sights on Hispanics, green-lighting three original shows aimed at bilingual, bicultural viewers. More» 'El Hotel de Secretos' Heads to Univision Univision on Jan. 25 will bow Mexican import El Hotel de los Secretos, its first "whodunit-style thriller" based on the Spanish series Gran Hotel. More » RCN Cues Up UVideos for Subscribers RCN — a competitive cable operator with a sizable footprint in big urban markets such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. — has opened Univision Communications's UVideos TV everywhere platform to its subscribers. More » NBCU to Partner With Hispanic Blogger Confab Hispanicize 2016, a blogger gathering focused on "Latino trendsetters and newsmakers," has signed up NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, Comcast, MSNBC and NBC News as presenting media partners. More » Atlantic Broadband Adds Pasiones, TV Dominicana The dominant MSO serving Miami's beach communities is now offering Hemisphere Media Group's entire suite of Spanish-language pay TV channels to subscribers who opt for its "Mundo Latino Basico" tier. More » Movers & Shakers • José Alberto Suárez has become president and GM of Telemundo O&O KVDA in San Antonio, Texas. Suárez was most recently director of creative services and local programming at NBC O&O WTVJ in Miami. • Telemundo-owned KVEA in Los Angeles has shifted Julio Vaqueiro to co-anchor of its 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts alongside incumbent co-anchor Ana Patricia Candiani. Vaquiero replaces Edgar Muñoz, who is no longer with KVEA. Vaquiero, who had been anchor of the 5 a.m. and 6 a.m. newscasts, will be succeeded by Enrique Chiabra, former weekend anchor at Univision O&O KUVS in Sacramento, Calif. Yara Lasanta, formerly a weekend weather forecaster at Telemundo's WKAQ-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico, will join Chiabra as the morning weather forecaster for KVEA. Briefing Room NHMC Opposes Charter-Time Warner Cable Deal (Multichannel News, Jan. 19) Charter Strikes Memorandum of Understanding With Diversity Groups (Broadcasting & Cable, Jan. 15) Contributing Editor: Adam R. Jacobson Contact: adam@adamrjacobson.com

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