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/ 12.07.2009 12:00PM
Univision Establishes Production Operation
NEW YORK: Spanish-language broadcaster Univision is
delving into production with the establishment of Univision Studios. It will be
based in Miami, Fla., and headed up by Luis Fernandez, former president of RTVE
Corp., the largest broadcasting company in Spain. He’ll report to Univision
Networks President Cesar Conde.
The studios will contribute further to around 4,000 hours of original
programming Univision says it does annually. The new division will generate
reality shows, dramas, entertainment programs and telenovelas, many of which
Univision now gets from Grupo Televisa. Univision has had a long-standing
agreement for exclusive rights to run Televisa’s programming in the United
States, though the two have clashed over Internet streaming rights--not
included in the deal that runs through 2017. Univision recently entered a pact
with Google to supply its programming to YouTube, with the exception of the
telenovelas.
Univision Studios programming will supply programming across the company’s
three networks--Univision, TeleFutura and Galavision--as well as Univision.com.
Before Fernandez led RTVE, he was managing director of Promofilm U.S., a production
company with offices and studios in Miami and Los Angeles. He also was
executive producer for “Al Filo de la Ley,” the first fiction series to air on
Univision in primetime in 2005, as well as several feature films. He also was executive producer of several
feature films, among them. He also served as general manager of Plural
Entertainment, the television and film production arm of Grupo Prisa, based in
the United States and has held managing positions in Spain’s principal communications
groups including Prisa, Telecinco, COPE, and Imagina.
(Image by Eugene Smith)
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