The network decided to outsource their news division in 1988 CNN to produced two newscasts, branded "Noticiero Telemundo CNN". Later that year, it purchased additional stations in San Francisco, Houston and San Antonio.īetween 19, Telemundo acquired stations in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Washington. The new corporation quickly went public and launched the Telemundo network. In 1987, Reliance merged all these stations into the Telemundo Group. In late 1986, Reliance purchased WNJU serving New York.
Lauderdale/ Miami, Puerto Rico's WKAQ-TV (known for decades as "Telemundo Canal 2"). The next year, Reliance acquired the Telemundo brand when it purchased Blair Broadcasting. It became the first full-time independent Spanish language station in Los Angeles. In 1985, Estrella Communications, owned by Joe Wallach, Paul Niedermeyer and Reliance Group Holdings, purchased KVEA in Los Angeles. One of the most important producers at WKAQ-TV is Paquito Cordero, who has been at the station since 1954, both as an actor and as a producer, mostly for "El Show de las Doce" and " Noche de Gala". Some of the famous telenovelas which WKAQ-TV has produced include: "Viva Vegas" Starring: Daniel Celario, Mario Celario, Julieta Rosen, Ludo Vika, Mike Robelo, and Jossara Jinaro.
Some of the local shows which WKAQ-TV has produced and broadcasted include: The channel was also known by its "fingers" logo (a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number), calling itself "El canal de los dedos" (the channel of the fingers).
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He had tried to obtain a TV license as early as the mid 1940s, but due to an FCC licensing freeze for all new American TV stations, Ramos had to wait until 1954 to obtain the license.ĭuring the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV (then branded as Telemundo Canal 2) was a major producer of Puerto Rican Spanish soap operas. Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding between its properties using the "mundo" theme (Spanish for "world"), and thus named WKAQ-TV Telemundo (in effect, "Teleworld" or "TV World"). The station was founded by Ángel Ramos, owner of "El Mundo", Puerto Rico's main newspaper at the time, and Puerto Rico's first radio station, WKAQ-AM, also known as "Radio El Mundo". WKAQ-TV launched the Telemundo brand on 28 March 1954. History 1954-1987 File:AngelRamosTelemundo.jpg These are Pasión de Gavilanes, Decisiones & El Cuerpo del Deseo, until NBC Universal pulled all programming from the iTunes Store. Three Telemundo shows were available in 2007 on the American iTunes Store tv shows. Jeff Gaspin, who is president and COO of Universal Television Group, oversees the network. Telemundo Communications Group, its parent company, is part of the NBC Universal division of General Electric, which paid $2.7 billion for the operation in 2002. An average of 1,035,000 total viewers (aged 2 and older) tuned in for its weekday prime time lineup during 2007. Hispanic households in 142 markets via over-the-air, cable and satellite TV. Unlike Univision, many programs on Telemundo air with closed captions in both Spanish AND English. Telemundo is also the only Spanish-language network currently producing telenovelas in the US. It is also the second-largest Spanish language network in the United States, behind Univision. Launched in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Angel Ramos in 1954, it is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world. Telemundo is an American television network based in Hialeah, Florida a suburb of Miami, Florida. "Tu Canal" ("Your Channel" slogan of WKAQ-TV)
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