Televisa-Univision Execs On Plans For “Harmonized” Global Spanish-Language OTT Service

The Mexican comedy Nosotros Los Nobles (We Are the Nobles) is getting an English-language feature take at Netflix from producers Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan and Mark Radcliffe for 26th Street Pictures as part of their overall deal with the streamer.

Jamie Lang Netflix is about to introduce one of Mexico’s most legendary fictional families to the English-speaking world with “We Are the Nobles,” a new U.S.

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Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications, which recently unveiled a $4.8 billion deal to combine media, production and content assets with Mexico's Televisa, has unveiled financial metrics and preliminary first quarter results as it considers potential financing transactions and market opportunities.

“Sex And The City” execs are promising the upcoming HBO Max reboot, “And Just Like That…”, will have a diverse cast.

Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, John Malone's international cable giant, saw his overall pay package for 2020 shrink to $44.9 million, compared to a pay packet of $123.2 million in 2019 that was part of a front end-loaded, multi-year compensation package. The $123.2 million overall compensation package for 2019, part of a new five-year contract renewal, included a multi-year remuneration target, certain levels of stock appreciation and amounts aggregated into a single year lump amount.

Comcast, Discovery, Disney, Fox, Lionsgate, Netflix and ViacomCBS dropped by 57,153 — an 8% decline over the previous year.But we can already see that the absence of special deal-related bonuses, not shared sacrifice or even falling stock prices, accounts for much of the 12% drop in average compensation, to $28.9 million, for the chiefs of AT&T, Comcast, Disney, Fox, Lionsgate, Netflix and ViacomCBS — the companies, among the ones we track, that have released their 2020 proxy reports disclosing

The British Academy has announced a restructure of its senior management team, with four executives elevated and a new position created. As part of the rejig, Emma Baehr is now executive director of awards and content; Tim Hunter is executive director of learning, inclusion policy and membership; Louise Robertson is executive director of partnerships and fundraising; and Tim Yates is executive director of finance and information.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJonathan Spink, former CEO of HBO Asia, has joined Asian regional streaming operation Catchplay as its principal advisor.The Taiwan-based company was founded in 2007 as a local distributor. In the last five years it moved into streaming and now operates Catchplay Plus in Taiwan, Singapore and Indonesia.

Mexican thriller series Who Killed Sara? has become Netflix’s most popular non-English language title ever with an estimated 55M subscribers tuning in since its launch last month.

SAG-AFTRA has launched a Spanish-language version of its website as part of a broader organizational effort to increase engagement with its thousands of Spanish-speaking members. The new website is also designed to support the union’s organizing efforts in the growing Spanish-language market.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThe union of Mexico’s Televisa and Univision has been considered by both sides for decades.

Newly unveiled Televisa-Univision is heading worldwide to beat out Spanish-language pay TV rivals in what top executives see as a largely untapped global market beyond the U.S. and Mexico.

Christina Aguilera has revealed that she is working on two new albums - an English language record and a Spanish one.

Two of the biggest Spanish-language media companies in the world are planning to merge. Mexico's Televisa and Univision are set to combine media, production and content into a new company to be called Televisa-Univision, the two announced Tuesday.

Jennifer Aniston is refuting claims made by an anonymous source on Tuesday, saying that she plans to adopt a baby from Mexican orphanage Casa Hogar Sion. A representative for the 52-year-old actress set the record straight and told TMZ that the adoption story is just a rumour.

Univision, which has been under new ownership since the end of 2020, has teamed with stakeholder Grupo Televisa to create a new global Spanish-language media giant.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorUnivision and Televisa have come to terms on a merger agreement, a long-awaited deal that will create a Spanish-language TV giant with broad reach in Mexico and the U.S.The deal calls for Televisa to contribute its media, content and production assets and a handful of networks to a new entity to be known as Televisa-Univision. Televisa’s assets are valued at $4.8 billion.

The market for dramas, non-fiction and comedy shows produced outside the U.S.— growing steadily for years — has gotten a super-charged kick thanks to U.S.-based streamers, which have pumped cash into new originals from Europe, Asia, and Latin America.