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Cisneros Studios remains open but without productions

April 17, 2020

Maribel Ramos-Weiner

Juan Carlos Sosa Cisneros Studios

Juan Carlos Sosa, EVP, and general manager of Cisneros Studios reported that they remain open with minimum personnel, but they are not operating. “The production of La Voz for Telemundo was postponed until the conditions are given,” he said.

As in many forums, they have remote work or under the precautions suggested for the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) with minimal personnel, in the post-production and quality center areas, maintaining the delivery of content to their clients.

“The daily emission of two minutes of Lo Más Top is recorded by the host in his house and is sent to the studio, where it is edited and loaded for its broadcast. In February measures were taken to advance shootings of other programs from our cable channel VePlus, Shirley and Más de Ti, with which we can cover our programming needs until the month of May,” he explained.

He commented that, albeit it is true that it wasn`t designed to be this way, “this remote production and broadcast model with just a cellphone, PC, or tablet and an Internet connection, will mark a very important and positive milestone for TV networks, a forced change in the paradigm of how we can produce non-scripted content in a context that is very different from the traditional one,” he explained.

Placing antibacterial gel dispensers, greater cleaning frequency in high use areas, social distancing, and home-office work are the measures they are applying.