15 Facts About Noticias Univision

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Noticias Univision is the news division of Univision, an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by the Univision Television Group division of TelevisaUnivision.

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Division's flagship program is Noticiero Noticias Univision, consisted of two nightly evening newscasts focusing on international news and stories of relevance to the network's main target demographic of Latino Americans.

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Noticias Univision maintains bureaus located at many of the network's television stations across the United States and throughout Latin America.

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Noticiero Noticias Univision has news share agreements with many of the national terrestrial networks in those same nations and will often carry their footage and reporting with credit.

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Noticias Univision uses content from Mexico-based broadcaster Televisa, Venezuela-based Venevision, Colombia-based RCN TV, Peru-based America Television, and regional-wide CNN en Espanol.

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Noticias Univision had other plans for the moribund show: the network revamped its format, changed its name and its theme music, and hired Puerto Rican-born Maria Celeste Arraras as a weekend reporter to serve as Dellanos' partner; the retooled newsmagazine series became Primer Impacto in February 1994.

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In 1998, Noticias Univision premiered a prime time investigative news magazine Aqui y Ahora, which focuses on in-depth investigative pieces and interviews with newsmakers.

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From 2000 to 2010, Noticias Univision was the only major US broadcast network to increase its news viewership, while its English-language counterparts on ABC, NBC and CBS each lost half of their total viewership.

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On December 9,2010, Noticias Univision announced that it had hired Isaac Lee as the president of its news division; His duties were expanded upon on October 4,2013, when he was named chief executive officer of its new cable news channel Fusion, and further in February 2015, when he became president of Noticias Univision's digital media operations through a reorganization of that division.

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Also in 2011, Noticias Univision formed two new departments within the news division: an investigative reporting unit, which was led by Pulitzer Prize winner Gerardo Reyes, and a documentary unit, which produced several critically acclaimed films on issues affecting the Latin American and international communities.

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The division's expanded commitment to investigative journalism helped Noticias Univision earn multiple journalism awards since 2012 including Peabody and Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards for its investigative piece on Operation Fast and Furious, two Gracie Awards, a Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism and fourteen other award wins for five documentaries produced by both units.

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Network's flagship newscast, Noticiero Noticias Univision, is a traditional evening news program that provides a general rundown of the day's news headlines, with more of a bent towards stories occurring in Latin America and, domestically, news stories and issues of utmost importance to Hispanic and Latino Americans.

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Noticias Univision produces 60-second news capsules that air during commercial breaks – except those featured during the Noticiero Univision-branded early and late newscasts – each hour throughout the broadcast day on Univision, and provides special report cut-ins within regular programming if needed during breaking news events.

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Univision Noticias is a planned Spanish language cable news channel, which Univision Communications announced on May 19,2011, in a press release mentioning the launch of three specialty cable channels.

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Noticias Univision maintains a separate website – powered through a partnership with Tumblr – and a companion Twitter feed, under the banner Univision News.

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