The Week in Multicultural Sports Marketing
A summary of the most exciting news in multicultural sports marketing. If you’re trying to keep up, consider this your one-stop shop.
A summary of the most exciting news in multicultural sports marketing. If you’re trying to keep up, consider this your one-stop shop.
Even before becoming Chief Content Officer in 2017, Lee was in charge of an important part of Univision’s content. He recently created a joint task force with Televisa that has aided UCI’s ability to compete in the media marketplace.
Univision has announced a video-on-demand extension of Univision Now focused on Hispanic content. Though Univision has already collaborated with Netflix to produce content aimed at Latin Americans and U.S. Hispanics, the network has decided to expand its OTT services and cater specifically to the Hispanic niche.
Mexican broadcaster Televisa reported a net profit of MX $563 million pesos (US$28.6 million) in the fourth quarter of 2017, down 12.5 percent from the same period a year earlier.
The two NBCU brands had not spent that much on advertising before Spark Foundry took over. We can expect an increase in ad spend starting now that the agency will promote two shows scheduled to air in February.
NBCUniversal’s Telemundo Station Group has announced the completion of its acquisition of nine TV stations from ZGS Communications.
RTVE, the public TV broadcaster from Spain, has partnered with Movistar Play to stream content in Latin America.
Ray Flores has become one of the most prominent broadcasters and ring announcers in MMA and boxing. He has set a high standard and serves as an outstanding role model for Latinos in the sports broadcasting word, particularly in combat sports.
HC2 Holdings, Inc. subsidiary HC2 Network Inc. has acquired Spanish-language broadcast network Azteca America.The deal includes licensing agreement with TV Azteca for Spanish-Language TV programming; Acquisition of Television Stations from Northstar Media will expand HC2’s Broadcasting Network to 113 operating stations in over 80 U.S. markets.
Cinelatino has unveiled a comprehensive rebrand that includes new on-air graphics and color palette.The channel rebrand was led by Carolina Bilbao, Executive Creative Director of Cinelatino, who tapped Edison Music’s David Baron, one of the top composers for television branding.
Facebook has unveiled its latest premium video effort called “Watch,”a new platform for shows on Facebook that will be available on mobile, desktop, laptop and in Facebook’s TV apps.
Entravision Communications Corporation has entered into an agreement with OTA Broadcasting (PSP), LLC to acquire Stations KMIR-TV, the NBC affiliate, and KPSE-LD, the MyNetworkTV affiliate, serving Palm Springs, California, for US$21 million.The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017.
A week ago, Univision announced its alliance with Juanfutbol to launch an exclusive soccer channel focused on millennials. Now, in an interview with Portada, Juanfutbol founder Miguel Ramírez Lombana tells us about his plans for expanding the business to a second country in Latin America.
NBC Sports Group announced today that it will host 2 versus 2 Rocket League Tournament, a new esports tournament, this summer.
We talked with FuboTV co-founder Alberto Horihuela about how the sports streaming platform was created and its expansion plans.
NFL content broadcast on Twitter will be sponsored.
The agreement secures the exclusive broadcasting rights of Concacaf’s club matches.
Azteca Los Angeles 54 announced an exclusive multiyear agreement as the Los Angeles Chargers Spanish-language flagship television station and broadcaster. Meanwhile, cognac brand Hennessey became the exclusive partner of boxer Canelo Alvarez.
Carlos Slim is planning to launch a 100% Mexican channel aimed at Mexican audiences in the United States, in late 2017.
Univision Holdings, Inc. and Grupo Televisa expand their relationship by unifying both of their content development and production efforts.