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Luca Bentivoglio of LATV: The paramount strategy is to follow the viewer

March 13, 2012


I believe that the basic strategy is to follow the television viewer, know his or her schedule and where he or she is. There’s a viewer at 7pm, 8pm and 9pm. I think Univision does a great job with that. Telemundo also does it well, but in different cities like Miami and New York where the company has more of a leadership or is doing well. In my opinion, the trick is to program for an eminently Mexican and Central American audience on the West coast without having a specific product that talks to them or even being positioned in those markets. You might have your headquarters in Miami, but what about Los Angeles? I say this because I’ve lived in Los Angeles my whole life, and I know the market really well. I still feel like the audience there isn’t reflected on the screen. There’s a gap, and that gap is the one that has to be found and worked for every day. For me, that’s the paramount strategy.