Posted by Elena del Valle on June 11, 2005
-Second Consecutive Week on Nielsen’s Top 25 List with 716,000 Viewers 2+-
New York, June 8, 2005 – Azteca America, the fastest-growing US Hispanic television network, announced that its hit musical reality show La Academia made NHTI Top 25 list for the second consecutive week with 716,000 viewers 2+. La Academia Audience grows, marking the fourth consecutive week for Azteca America with programs on the Top 25 List.
“For those that argued that we’re just a soccer network, we invite them to tune in with the over 700,000 viewers that watched La Academia across the country last Sunday,” said COO Jorge Jaidar. “This is a 2+ viewership that is 48% above what Telemundo attracted even in their final concert of Nuevas Voces de America.”
The programming success marks the fourth consecutive week that Azteca America has placed a program within Nielsen’s Top 25 list of most-watched Hispanic programs. Details, www.top5s.com
Azteca America, the fastest-growing Hispanic network in the United States, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V., one of the two largest producers of Spanish language television content in the world. Azteca America currently has presence in 39 Hispanic markets, including: Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, Phoenix, Brownsville-McAllen, Albuquerque, San Diego, Fresno-Visalia, Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, Denver, Orlando, Austin, Tampa, Corpus Christi, Tucson, Las Vegas, Colorado Springs, Monterey-Salinas, Hartford, Salt Lake City, Bakersfield, West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Omaha, Yakima, Naples-Ft. Myers, Wichita, Reno, Boise, Victoria, Oklahoma City, Charleston and Chattanooga. Details at
AztecaAmerica.com
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Posted by Elena del Valle on June 8, 2005
Median Annual Earnings Over Time (Constant 2002 Dollars)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004; estimates from HispanTelligence(R)
Santa Barbara, CA–(HISPANIC PR WIRE)–June 7, 2005–Hispanic women are a rapidly growing segment of the U.S. population, with especially large representation in younger age groups. By 2050, Hispanics are forecasted to comprise nearly one quarter of U.S. women, according to the HispanTelligence(R) research report “Hispanic Women in Profile 2005” released today by Hispanic Business Inc.
The data-rich report also reveals that native-born Hispanic women have higher educational attainment and average earnings than do foreign-born Hispanics, thereby narrowing the differences between Hispanics and national averages. While only 2.9 percent of Hispanic women have advanced degrees, the ones that do have higher average annual earnings ($58,623) than all women with advanced degrees ($50,756).
“From 1979 to 2002, Hispanic women gained a 10 percent increase in real earnings, increasing median annual earnings from $18,720 to $20,592. The wage gap, the difference in earnings between men and women, is smaller among Hispanics than whites. Hispanic women earn 88 percent of Hispanic men’s earnings, while white women earn only 78 percent of white men’s earnings,” stated the author of the study, Andrea Lehman, HispanTelligence(R) Business Economist.
Another interesting finding described in the report is that the number of firms owned by Hispanic women has increased by 63.9 percent between 1997 and 2004. The number has passed the half million mark with 553,618 Hispanic women-owned businesses in 2004.
What do these key findings mean for the future of Hispanic women? Hispanic women will have an increasing impact on the face of the U.S. economy that cannot be ignored – especially in entrepreneurial and small-business ventures.
The HispanTelligence(R) “Hispanic Women in Profile 2005” report also provides: Demographic data on education, population, and other comparative trends; comparison of native-born and foreign-born Hispanic women; description of Hispanic women by area of origin; labor force participation of Hispanic women with children; breakdown of employment by industry; minority women-owned firms; and concentrations by industry of Hispanic women-owned businesses. Details at Hispanic Business
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Posted by Elena del Valle on June 7, 2005
June 2005 Issue of Hispanic Business Presents the Top 500 Hispanic-Owned Companies
SANTA BARBARA, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 06/07/2005 Hispanic Business reports that as a whole, the 500 largest Hispanic-owned companies report strong growth in 2004, but a handful of firms account for nearly all the new revenues. While the 500 have cumulative revenues of $30.26 billion, the top 100 companies account for more than three fourths of that total, and the percentage has grown every year since 2000. The rich really are getting richer.
While congratulating the "winners" in this tough economy, Hispanic Business Magazine’s editor and publisher, Jesús Chavarría, says that looking at the list from the bottom up gives cause for concern. "When Hispanic Business started the 500 directory 21 years ago, the idea was to measure growth. Over time, you would expect the whole list to grow — large companies, mid-size companies, and small companies. And it worked that way, until a few years ago," explains Chavarría. "But in the last few years, the largest companies have grown at full gallop while the smallest companies have stagnated."
About Hispanic Business Inc.
Now celebrating a quarter century as an award-winning publishing and information services company, Hispanic Business Inc. is the nation’s leading source of information for and about Hispanic professionals and entrepreneurs. Hispanic Business magazine is the company’s flagship publication, and other products and educational services include: SúperOnda magazine, HireDiversity.com, and Hispanic Business Events including EOY (Entrepreneur of the Year) Awards Gala, Hispanic Business BOE (Board of Economists) U.S. Hispanic Economic Summit, and WOY (Woman of the Year).
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Posted by Elena del Valle on June 3, 2005
PlanetaTV.com’s users can now create video playlists, rate and share videos with friends, search and browse a library of thousands of videos all without interrupting their streaming video experience
Coral Gables, FL–(HISPANIC PR WIRE – BUSINESS WIRE)–May 26, 2005–Planeta Networks, aprovider of Hispanic Broadband content, announced today the launch of PlanetaTV 3.0., the newest version of its flagship portal PlanetaTV.com, including an innovative programmable streaming video player that allows users to seamlessly create playlists of their favorite videos, rate videos, share their videos with friends via e-mail as well as browse and search a library of over 3,000 videos available on demand.
The new version of PlanetaTV.com offers innovative ways for marketers to deliver their messages to the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic audience by synchronizing the delivery of pre-roll Broadband Video Ads with other ad units embedded in the video player to maximize exposure and click through rates. Consumers can try out new features at PlanetaTV.com, including: Create video playlists, rate videos, share videos with friends, search and browse a library of thousands of videos
About PlanetaTV.com
PlanetaTV.com is one of the fastest growing portals targetting US Hispanics streaming millions of news and entertainment videos every month, on 20 exclusive video channels including live video and more than 100 radio stations. PlanetaTV offers the latest videos from the hottest Latin artist, interviews, a sneak peak on new movies, behind the scenes, and more from the music, movie and television industries. PlanetaTV gives access to breaking news from Latin Americas local and international providers highlighting the Hispanic market, all in video and in Spanish.
PlanetaTV.com’s content partners include MVS, CNI, Telefe, Clarin, Globovision, MeridianoTV, Union Radio, Europa Press, Associated Press, ECUAVISA, Show Business, Colombian Fashion, and Live365. It has distribution partnerships with Comcast, Road Runner, and Cablevision Systems.
About Planeta Networks, Inc.
From its head office in Coral Gables, FL, Planeta Networks provides managed services for the deployment of Broadband applications and digital media, working with Hispanic content owners and network service providers to deliver robust interactive content products to users. Planeta Networks currently operates more than 30 broadband portals in 10 countries, including PlanetaTV.com, the first Spanish Multimedia site that offers its users the best video and audio content produced by the major content providers in Latin America, USA, and Spain, developed upon the technological platforms Digital Media Platform and Polaris, which allows the creation, distribution and commercialization of multimedia content on the Internet.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on May 20, 2005
Washington, DC–(HISPANIC PR WIRE)–May 18, 2005–The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently awarded Robert E. Bard, president of LATINA Style magazine with its Special Achievement Award for his contributions to women professionals and entrepreneurs. LATINA Style magazine, a magazine for Latina professionals in the U.S. offers multi-facetted, multi-service empowerment resources for today’s Latinas such as the Latina Style’s Business Series, Latina Style 50 Best Practices in Diversity Conference & Awards Ceremony, and the Latina Style National Latina Symposium. “The emergence of the Latina entrepreneur as a catalyst for prosperity is a welcome change in our community. Latinas are starting and succeeding in business all across the country,” says Robert E. Bard, President, LATINA Style magazine. “Latinas are outpacing all other business startups three to one.”
The LATINA Style Business Series, high-powered, one-day conferences, in eight cities across the country, engages attendees and expert presenters in seminars specifically designed to address the major issues they face as professionals and entrepreneurs such as getting access to capital, professional and support services, and meeting communication needs.
Women have the opportunity to network with peers, corporate sponsors and partner organizations in the exhibit area. The next Business Series are May 20 in Miami, FL.; June 17 in Chicago, IL; July 12 in Philadelphia, PA; and November 11 in San Bernardino, CA. The LATINA Style 50 Best Practices in Diversity Conference & Awards Ceremony, held in Washington, DC every February, recognizes the best companies for Latinas to work for based on corporate America’s policies and practices and addresses corporate issues pertaining to Hispanic women in the workplace.
The LATINA Style 50 are chosen through Latina Style’s extensive review and evaluation of more than 600 of the most respected corporations in the United States based on issues LATINA Style readers identified as most important to them in the workplace. The principal areas of review and evaluation are: number of Latina executives; mentoring programs; women on boards of directors; educational opportunities; dependent/childcare support; leave for childbirth; alternative work policies; benefits; women’s issues; and Hispanic relations. The Equal Employment Opportunities Commission and the U.S. Department of Labor monitors the Latina Style 50.
The LATINA Style 50 attracts the participation of top Latinas in corporate America, influential leaders in the Hispanic community, corporate CEO’s, chief diversity executives, marketing and human resource officers, Latina entrepreneurs, government decision-makers, and other national experts on diversity in the workforce.
The LATINA Style National Latina Symposium set for September 8-9 in Washington, DC, brings together Latinas to discuss and evaluate the status of Latina working women in the United States. Through roundtable and panel discussions, and in-depth surveys, a national report is produced and presented to national leaders, including the political establishment, the business and education community, colleges and universities, community groups and career centers in an effort to improve the status of Latinas.
Launched in 1994 by the late Anna Maria Arias, LATINA Style is the first organization with its flagship national magazine dedicated to the needs and concerns of the contemporary Latina professional workingwoman and the Latina business owner in the United States.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on May 14, 2005
Fox Sports en Español’s exclusive telecasts of the Copa Libertadores and Copa de Campeones continue to deliver huge ratings for the leading Spanish-language sports network. According to Nielsen Media Research, three games featuring Mexican teams netted Fox Sports en Español solid ratings successes on consecutive nights, particularly among the highly coveted and hard to reach 18-49 male demographic. The second-round Copa Libertadores match in which Pachuca of Mexico handed Sporting Cristal of Peru a convincing 2-0 defeat delivered a solid 3.24 coverage area rating among Hispanic men 18-49, and cracked Fox Sports en Español’s Top 25 programs of all time (among men 18-49) at number 25.
On the same night, the Copa de Campeones match featuring Saprissa of Costa Rica’s defeat of Pumas of Mexico delivered a strong 4.62 coverage area rating among Hispanic men 18-49, good for an overall ranking of 12 on Fox Sports en Español’s Top 25 programs of all time (Men 18-49). The telecast now occupies 12th and 11th place among the network’s Top 25 programs of all time for adults 18-49 and total Hispanic household reach, respectively.
Completing the trifecta of ratings triumphs for Fox Sports en Español over two nights, the May 5 Copa Libertadores match featuring legendary Mexican Club Chivas of Guadalajara and Chile’s Cobreloa netted an exceptional 5.15 coverage area rating among men 18-49, as well as a solid 3.78 coverage area rating among adults 18-49. Chivas’ 3-1 defeat of Cobreloa now ranks 6th, 8th and 13th among the network’s all-time Top 25 programs (against men 18-49, adults 18-49 and total Hispanic households, respectively).
About Fox Sports en Español
Fox Sports en Español is available through affiliated cable systems and through DIRECTV and Dish Network satellite providers. Fox Sports en Español is distributed by Fox Cable Networks Group and operated by Fox Pan American Sports LLC, an international sports programming and production entity jointly owned by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and News Corporation’s (NYSE: NWS) Fox Sports International.
Fox Sports en Español features more than 1,000 hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish each year, including the Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana and InterLiga soccer tournaments; the Major League Baseball playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; the Caribbean World Series; and Championship boxing from Mexico and the U.S. The channel reaches more than 7 million cable and satellite households in the U.S.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on May 14, 2005
Los Angeles, CA–(HISPANIC PR WIRE)–May 12, 2005–TuTv today announced that its music networks – Telehit, Ritmoson Latino and Bandamax will telecast the annual music festival ACAFEST live from May 15 – 21, 2005. The festival is the largest multistage, one week, 24 hours a day concert series hosted at the port of Acapulco in Mexico.
ACAFEST is produced by Televisa, and will feature top Latin performers such as Alejandro Fernández, Juan Gabriel, Yuri, Tucanes de Tijuana, Kabah, Elefante, Moderatto, Ari Boroboy, Fey, Genitallica, Priscila y sus Balas de Plata, Maribel Guardia, Bobby Pulido, RBD, Marco Antonio Solís, La Quinta Estación, Kumbia Kings and Francisco Céspedes.
Telehit’s, Ritmoson Latino’s and Bandamax’s exclusive coverage will include full concert transmissions, back stage interviews and VJs commentary from Poncho Maciel, Kalinda Cano and Claudio from Telehit; Gabriel García and Alejandra Bejarano from Bandamax and Analía from Ritmoson Latino.
The festival will feature many celebrities and community leaders including comedians Consuelo Duval, Adrián Uribe, Jo Jo Jorge Falcón, Luis de Alba. This will be the second year in a row actress and signer Paty Manterola, is the official face of the event.
About TuTv:
TuTv was created in 2002 through a joint venture between Univision Communications Inc. and Televisa S.A. The TuTv networks are available on satellite and cable platforms across the nation. TuTv includes five of the most powerful network brands in the Spanish-speaking media world, including De Película, De Película Clásico, Telehit, Ritmoson and Bandamax. This collection of digital television networks produced by Televisa is already distributed and popular throughout Mexico, Latin America and Europe. Featuring classic and contemporary films, music videos that reflect the rhythms, vibrancy and passions of Hispanic communities, and wildly popular youth and lifestyle programming, the TuTv suite of networks is the premier vehicle for pay television providers to reach the fastest-growing market in America. For more information please visit http://www.tutv.tv.
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Posted by Elena del Valle on May 9, 2005
According to a recent Arbitron study, “Hispanic Radio Today: How America Listens to Radio 2005," the number of U.S. Spanish-language radio stations is the highest its ever been 678 stations.
Hispanic Radio Today is the result of Scarborough consumer and Arbitron audience data which reflect the listening habits of the U.S. Hispanic radio audience. Available in English and Spanish, the study looks at Hispanic listening nationally and at the most popular formats. More
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Posted by Elena del Valle on May 9, 2005
Fort Lauderdale, FL–(HISPANIC PR WIRE)–May 9, 2005–“Raza de Campeones”, the first and only Spanish-language television show that highlights the achievements and cultural values of U.S. Hispanics premiered in April. Viewers in Los Angeles, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Santa Barbara and Reno, can watch the first season of the show every Sunday during prime time. Currently, syndication negotiations take place with other local broadcast channels in the country, including Puerto Rico, to make this program available to a broader audience.
Raza de Campeones, a production of Picabú Productions, has traveled throughout the United States to meet with Spanish-speaking people that have achieved success in the arts, business, sports and other areas. Moreover, this hour long show includes a street survey about topics of general interest that reflect the lifestyles and culture of the Latin community. The show also presents a section about the Latin traditions incorporated into American culture and reports about social organizations that help Latin people in the United States.
The three hosts that conduct the show have also achieved great success in communications, arts and business. Esther Lambert, a multifaceted Venezuelan that has distinguished herself in many areas, is the creator of the show and founder of Picabu Productions; Memo Sauceda, a TV host and Mexican actor with a long and successful career in theater, radio and television; and Pedro Telemaco, a Puerto Rican actor who has been quite successful in films, theater and television.
“Raza de Campeones" brings entertainment, variety and a well-deserved recognition of the Hispanics by highlighting their integration and valuable contribution to the progress of this country. At the same time, it serves as an example to the many people who are still looking to make their dream come true”, indicates Esther Lambert, Executive Producer who has made this project a reality. “Raza de Campeones” fills a gap in Spanish-language programming with a new concept presented in a dynamic, interesting and entertaining manner.
Picabu Productions LLC, created in 2003, is an independent production company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Every Sunday:
WDLP-TV Ch. 22 Miami, Fort Lauderdale, The Florida Keys 6:00 PM (EST)
KMOH-TV Ch. 6 Phoenix, AZ; Reno, NV 7:00 PM (PST)
KBEH-TV Ch. 63 Los Angeles; Santa Barbara, CA 8:00 PM (PST)
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Posted by Elena del Valle on May 5, 2005
According to Portada, a subscription publication monitoring print media for Spanish-speaking audiences, a recent analysis indicates 67.4 % (203 of 301) of the largest publications targeting Spanish-speaking audiences are owned by Hispanics. However, the remaining 32.5%, which are non-Hispanic owned, generate the highest ad revenue.
Portada goes on to reveal that the top ad revenue is generated by large corporations such as Knight Ridder (El Nuevo Herald), Impremedia (La Opinion), Editora Paso del Norte (El Diario) for newspapers; and Time, Inc. (People en español), Latina MV (Latina), Reader’s Digest (Selecciones) for magazines. Portada on line
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