Canela Media announced a partnership with Exile Content Studio to co-produce season 2 of the popular children’s series, Club Mundo Kids . Season 2 will feature ten episodes teaching children about the world they live in, spanning from mindfulness to making friends and social skills. The series will......
Isaac Lee, who will continue running Exile Content Studios after being acquired by Blackstone's Candle Media, was grateful and thrilled by the transaction. "We are happy to expand our efforts to raise Latino talent and create content that showcases the experiences and voices of diverse Spanish-speak......
Atresmedia TV, Exile Content, and Newtral, in collaboration with Alea Media, co-produced the docuseries Los Borbones: Una Familia Real , directed by the creator Aitor Gabilondo and the journalist Ana Pastor. The series, of six episodes and currently in the filming phase, tells the recent histor......
"And what did reporter Isaac Lee learn from all this?" was one of the many questions he was asked during his interview on #PRODUprimetime program with Ríchard Izarra, who he introduced him with these words: “Today I am excited because I have the honor of being with a born journalist, an entre......
Alejandro Uribe, former Televisa and who, together with Isaac Lee (former Univision), created a year ago the Hispanic studio Exile Content that operates in Latin America, the US, and Spain, explained that they are producing both scripted and unscripted projects: high-quality drama series, premium do......
In Corporate Leadership in Hispanic TV and Video (Programmer) the award was for Castalia and it was accepted by Luis Torres-Bohl, its president, who expressed that they are “an amalgamation of cultures and that diversity gives us strength". Torres announced the 15 years of Mexicanal and the launch o......
Diego Luna, the Mexican actor, director, and producer for film and television will be the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television presented by Future PLC’s Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News magazines during the Hispanic Television Summit.&n......
The producer of Roma, Nicolás Celis, and his production company, Pimienta Films, with headquarters in Mexico City, signed an exclusive, first-look deal with Exile and Endeavor Content. The agreement occurs after the association at the beginning of the year announced the partnership between Exile a......
Exile Content Studio, recently founded by Isaac Lee -former director of Univisión and Televisa-, has just acquired the Mexican production house, Redrum. Stacy Perskie, Redrum founder will be the studio’s director along with her partners, including Adrian Grunberg, who currently runs Rambo 5. Redru......
Exile Content Studios, the new company owned by Isaac Lee (CDMX and Extraño Enemigo), together with Daniel Eilemberg (Science Fair, Murder Mountain) and Alejandro Uribe (former CEO of Blim), will start with the acquisition of a production company, apparently in Mexico. The purpose of Exile Content ......
Univision Communications Inc (UCI) announced that Isaac Lee has decided to step down as Chief Content Officer of UCI, after successfully completing the mandate of aligning the content operations of both UCI and Televisa. Lee created and led a joint task force between UCI and Televisa that has gene......
Story House Entertainment and Netflix announced that Damián Alcázar ( Narcos, La Delgada Línea Amarilla, La Ley de Herodes ) and Tamara Vallarta ( Paquita la del Barrio ) have been cast in the upcoming original drama series Tijuana. Alcázar and Vallarta step into the respective roles ......
UCI’s 2018-19 season features a content lineup led by dynamic live sports, music, news and unscripted entertainment by new and diverse creative voices spanning eight culturally relevant genres. “This year’s Upfront is about Culture Unbound , a tribute to the relationship we’ve established w......
Televisa announced that Patricio Wills will lead Televisa's Content Production area in his new position as president of Televisa Estudios, where he will have the responsibility of giving continuity and robustness to the content renovation process that the company began at the start of 2017. Wills w......
The Sundance Institute announced that the Fusion produced feature documentary Science Fair has won the first-ever Festival Favorite Award, selected by audience votes from the 123 feature films screened at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Science Fair, which had its world premiere at the 2018 F......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced that Jessica Rodríguez has been appointed to the newly-created role of president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of UCI Networks, effective immediately. In her new role, she will also report to Isaac Lee, Chief Content Officer, UCI and Grupo Televisa......
The recent changes Televisa has carried out in its content area, now lead by Isaac Lee, led the company to implement different strategies to open its doors to independent creatives. One of them is Pilot Season , a pitch that managed to gather around 100 projects from 59 companies. “In my position......
En Tierras Salvajes (72x60’) is one of the productions the new Contents team at Televisa —led by Isaac Lee and to be launched next Monday July 31 at 7:30pm— is betting on. During the presentation to the media, the producer Salvador Mejía assured that this story adapts to the new way of making TV, ......
Under the leadership of Isaac Lee, the idea is for Televisa and Univision to open the doors to attract new and fresh talent. That is what Rosy Ocampo, Corporate Content VP at Televisa, commented. The executive, who has been in the Company almost 36 years, is in charge of the Televisa fa......
A few months after his arrival to Televisa as Programming, Marketing, and Research VP, Gerardo López Gallo assured that the digital topic combined with each one of the productions is one of the TV station’s main bets to face new consumption uses. “The idea is to work each signal based on numb......
Televisa informed that Gerardo López-Gallo joins their team as VP of Programming, Marketing and Research grouping those important duties under one same leadership. The executive will assume the position on March 15, reporting to Isaac Lee, responsible of Contents for Televisa and Un......
The producer Rosy Ocampo was appointed Corporate Content VP at Televisa, position where she will have the responsibility of supervising production and development of the contents Televisa makes in different genres: telenovelas, series, episodic series, comedies and contests. Ocampo will report to......
( Maye Albornoz ). Televisa presented its new bet for the evening schedule of Las Estrellas, Mi Adorable Maldición (120x60’), a production by Ignacio Sada, that debuted on Monday, January 23, also on the network´s platforms. Mi Adorable Maldición is the Mexican version of the Colombian Lola ......
Univision and Televisa announced a strengthened and expanded relationship between the two companies by unifying both of their content development and production efforts. Isaac Lee, who currently serves as the chief News, Entertainment & Digital Officer for Univision and CEO for Fusion, will assume ......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), announced the appointments of Lourdes Díaz as president, Entertainment and Adrián Santucho as EVP, Univision Studios. Effective November 1, 2016, Díaz will be based in Los Angeles and will report to Isaac Lee, Chief News, Entertainment & Digital ......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), announced the appointments of Lourdes Díaz as president, Entertainment and Adrián Santucho as EVP, Univision Studios. Effective November 1st Díaz will be based in Los Angeles and will report to Isaac Lee, Chief News, Entertainment & Digital Office......
Univision Communications, Inc. (UCI) has announced that digital media executive and veteran editor Raju Narisetti has been named CEO for Gizmodo Media Group (GMG), a unit within the company’s Fusion Media Group (FMG). As CEO, Narisetti will be responsible for managing all business and......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire digital media assets as part of the bankruptcy proceedings of Gawker Media Group, Inc. and related companies that produce content under a series of original brands that reach nearly 50 million readers per month......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced that Isaac Lee has been named to the newly created position of Chief News, Entertainment & Digital Officer. Lee will continue to report to Randy Falco, president and CEO of UCI. In this position, Lee will be responsible for UCIs News, Entertainment, a......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the launch of Univision Story House, a new content development and production venture that will produce original content for UCIs portfolio of owned networks as well as third party networks and platforms. Story House will be a part of the recently ann......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced it will be forming the Fusion Media Group (FMG). FMG will serve as the multi-platform destination for the new, rising American mainstream -delivering content that embodies the audience's shared values and passion points across all platforms. Building o......
Univision Digital announced the launch of Univision Beta, a new initiative aimed at accelerating digital innovation across the organization and expanding audience reach through the creative use of emerging digital and social platforms, with special emphasis on news and information. Functioning as ......
Univision News announced the promotion of Daniel Coronell to president of News. He will continue to be based in Miami and report to Isaac Lee, Chief News and Digital Officer for UCI, and CEO of Fusion. Daniel is an exceptional editorial talent whose drive and instincts have elevated Univisions n......
HBO licenses 10-episodes series Outpost and one-hour special Hate in America with Jorge Ramos from Fusion. This is the first time HBO is partnering with Univision.The series Outpost (10x30) guides audiences through an immersive exploration of Latin America, offering authentic local perspect......
Univision Digital announced that Alberto Cairo, one of the worlds foremost authorities in the field of information graphics, will begin collaborating with Univision as its first visualization innovator-in-residence. Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of ......
Univision Communications, Inc. (UCI) announced that Isaac Lee has been named to the newly created position of Chief News and Digital Officer, with additional responsibilities over Multicultural and Music and maintaining oversight of the News and Digital divisions. Lee will continue to report to Ra......
Legendary Entertainment has named a pair of new board members Univision executive Isaac Lee, and Jackie Robinson Foundation CEO-president Della Britton Baeza.Lee is president of News and Digital for Univision and the CEO of Fusion. The board includes Nikesh Arora (SoftBank), Jim Breyer (Accel an......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced the appointment of Mark López to the position of executive vice president and general manager, Univision Digital, effective May 1st, 2015. He will be based in Miami and report to Isaac Lee, president of News and Digital for UCI and CEO of Fusion. In th......
Univision News has announced that Daniel Coronell has been promoted to executive vice president and executive director of News. He will continue reporting directly to Isaac Lee, president of News & Digital at UCI, and CEO of Fusion. This is the second promotion for Coronell since he joined Univisi......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced that it has named Kevin Conroy Chief Strategy & Data officer and president, Enterprise Development for UCI and Isaac Lee as UCI president of News & Digital and Fusion CEO. Conroy and Lee are Corporate Officers for UCI and will continue to report to UCI......
Fusion CEO Isaac Lee announced that Boris Gartner was joining the company as SVP and Chief Strategy Officer. Gartner will be working on company-wide strategy, partnerships, and business development -focusing on growing the reach and impact of Fusions content offerings in the digital space."Bori......
Fusion announced that Hong Qu (@hqu), a veteran of YouTube and Upworthy, will become the networks Chief Technology Officer. We want Fusion to be an incubator for innovation where we take risks and experiment not only with new forms of content, but also new ways of ways of delivering that content......
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) unveiled La Fabrica UCI, a new in-house digital content production arm focused on creating high-quality, digital-first content for the Companys digital platforms in Spanish and English. La Fabrica UCI further expands the Companys digital efforts including UVi......
Univision News award-winning newsmagazine Primer Impacto ( First Impact ) celebrates its 20th anniversary with a special primetime edition that gives viewers a riveting look back at the most memorable stories in the history of the program. Más Allá del Impacto ( Beyond the Impact ) will air o......
Fusion, the new cable and digital network aimed at multicultural millennials (joint venture of ABC and Univision), has hired veteran journalist and new media entrepreneur Daniel Eilemberg to be their Chief Digital Officer (and senior vice president for Fusion). He will oversee all of Fusion's digi......
Pivot, the cable network from Participant Media targeting Generation Y, and Univision News, the news division of Univision Communications Inc., have acquired the U.S. TV rights to Césars Last Fast from Richard Ray Pérez and Lorena Parlee in advance of its world debut at the Sundance Film Festival......
Univision News, the news division of Univision Communications, Inc, announced that its primetime newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora , reported year-over-year double-digit audience growth in the most recent November sweep among Total Viewers 2+ (+31%), Adults 18-49 (+25%) and Adults 18-34 (+31%).We are pl......
Fusion the news, pop-culture and satire TV and digital network from ABC and Univision launching October 28 announced its daily morning program The Morning Show , hosted by Globo journalist Pedro Andrade, Univision reporter Mariana Atencio and comedian Yannis Pappas. Starting Tuesday, October......
Fusion -the news, pop culture and satire TV & digital network from ABC and Univision unveiled a beta version of its website Fusion.net on October 21. It will be a part of the Yahoo-ABC News Network, the leader of news and information online. Aimed at a young, digital, and diverse America, Fusi......
Fusion announced that veteran journalist Isaac Lee will become Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. In this new role Lee, who will continue to serve as president of Univision News, will be responsible for all programming and business aspects of Fusion.Fusion is a news, pop culture and li......
Univision Communications, Inc. announced a reorganization of the Univision Networks team, under which Alberto Ciurana, president of Programming and Content; Isaac Lee, president of News; and Juan Carlos Rodríguez, president of Univision Deportes will report directly to Randy Falco, president and CEO......
Noticias Univisión and Fusion unveiled their Newsport studios for news and production in Doral. In attendance were Florida governor Rick Scott and the mayor of Doral, Luigi Boria; ABC News and Univision Communications executives, as well as member of the press.Teresa Rodríguez, co-host of Aquí y ......
Univision News, the news division of Univision Communications, Inc., announced that it has received a grant from the Ford Foundation to support its quality investigative journalism. Univision News was the recipient of a one-year, US$500,000 grant from the Ford Foundations Freedom of Expression Un......
Univision News and Penske Media Corporation (PMC), parent company of Variety , have joined forces to create a co-branded multiplatform entertainment segment for Univision Networks Primer Impacto ( First Impact ), one of the highest rated newsmagazine shows in the United States and several Latin ......
Univision News delivered a strong First Quarter 2013 performance with double-digit year-over-year audience growth in key demos. This includes its national evening newscast Noticiero Univisión , Sunday morning public affairs show Al Punto and weekday newsmagazine program Primer Impacto . Notic......
ABC and Univision announced their joint venture news and lifestyle network for U.S. Hispanics will be called Fusion. The ground-breaking media service launches in the second half of 2013. "Our collaboration will bring unmatched reporting capabilities and understanding of issues and entertainment ......
From its own building now in construction in Miami, the new English language channel, a venture by Univision and ABC, geared toward Hispanics in the U.S. is set to launch in September of 2013, according to Isaac Lee, president of News at Univision Networks. He indicated that the new channel, which......
Noticiero Univision , Univisions Spanish-Language national evening news program, grew 17% among adults 25 to 54 in November compared to the same month in 2011. The importance of culturally-relevant news for the U.S. Hispanic community during the Presidential campaign has been well-reported, but......
Univision News and ABC News have signed the definitive agreement to form a new joint venture to serve the growing Hispanic population in the U.S. with a news product in English. We are pleased to come one step closer to our goal of delivering a new English-language news offering to U.S. audiences......
Univision Communications announced that its national evening newscast, Noticiero Univisión (Monday-Friday, 6:30-7pm) saw audience growth across all key demographics while the English-language networks reported minimal audience lifts and/or declines compared to January 2011. Noticiero Univision ......
Univision Communications is bolstering its news presence and enhancing its political coverage for the 2012 election cycle. In addition to extensive interactive and on-air coverage, Univisions news division will count with political commentary from analysts Helen Aguirre Ferré (R), Dr. Emilio Gonzál......
Univision announced today that Club de Periodistas de Mexico (Mexicos Journalism Club) has honored its News division with two major international journalism awards.Univision News anchor Jorge Ramos was recognized with the International Journalism Award, in the Interview category, for the series ......
Univision announced the upcoming U.S. premiere of Infiltrados ( Infiltrated ), a documentary produced by Documentales Univision, Univision News new documentary unit. Infiltrados takes an in-depth look at the FARC - one of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations, which is accountable for......
Univision Communications Inc. announced that Karl Penhaul and Carlos Villalon have joined the Univision News team as special foreign correspondents in conflict zones around the world. Penhaul and Villalon will report for all Univision News platforms.“The addition of these two world-class journalis......
Isaac Lee, President of Univisión Noticias, announced changes to his department. The first one was the appointment of Daniel Coronell as his right arm and the departure of Sylvia Rosabal, the former News Director.Lee also promoted Patsy Loris to Senior News Director. She will direct the department......
Univisión is getting ready to launch a 24-hour news channel utilizing the same bandwidth gained with the digital conversion.The recently appointed president of News of the network, the Colombian journalist Isaac Lee, made the announcement to PRODU. He has held the job at the Doral offices in Miami......
According to a report by the EFE agency, industry experts believe Univisión is looking to position itself as a premiere news source in the U.S.The report indicates that with the naming of Isaac Lee, a journalist with great imagination and creative abilities, as News Director of Univisión, the ne......
Univision Communications announced that longtime journalist Isaac Lee has been named president of News and that Alexander “Sandy” Brown has been named president of Sports. The Company also announced that Alina Falcón, a Univision veteran of 26 years who has held numerous senior roles throughout the ......