Daniel Alegre, CEO, Televisaunivision says that Google’s decision to remove the Spanish network from the main platform for a separate paid service is politically motivated.
Spanish-language television network Univision is crying wrong while the YouTube TV from Google is preparing for the removal of the channel from the main bundle to an extra price plan at the end of the month, a movement that, according to the broadcaster, has discriminatory and political consequences.
The Univision building in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images / Getty Images)
Negotiations with the tech giant, although constantly, have failed to produce an agreement, forcing the broadcaster in the fighting mode. From Wednesday, a national advertisement -Blitz will be rolled out in large publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle, the Miami Herald and USA Today, where Alegre Pens, among others, warns an open letter with the title “Do the Right Thing Google”, warns of the danging information for Hispanics. Univision reaches more Hispanics in the US than any other television network.
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Read the full letter:
“The number of new registered voters in Hispanics has been more than four million since 2020, and in particular in important critical states where the interim elections, the Gubernatorial elections, the mayors of elections that arise. The Hispanic -will be the provision of the company that is not instructed to be a technical business or dictation, The company that is not dictated or that it is to be a technical company, that is not imposed or a technical company that is not exiling whether a dictated company is not by a technical company and the silence of the Spanish voice, “he said.
“We literally have around the corner in October, we have town halls with both the Democrat and the Republican Gubernatorial candidates doing Town Hours on Univison. That means that Hispanics in the metropolitan area of ​​New Jersey, New York are unable to hear from those politicians,” he warned.
“The requirements of Televisaunivisie have not been supported in the last four years by their performance on YouTube TV. If we cannot reach a fair deal by 30 September, their programming is no longer available on YouTube TV. Although we value our partnership with them, our transport renewal decisions are based on views and prizes and a suggestion for the suggestion for the opposite.”
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Alegre, who is in his term of office for a year as a CEO, pointed out that YouTube is the only partner with a problem.
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“Every distributor, including Hulu, who is actually a new distribution partner, and even Comcast, who owns Telemundo, you know that one of our competitors actually spreads our content, and they see the value in our content and our connectivity with the Spanish market,” he said, emphasizing that the move is going “beyond economy.”
Trump won in the 2024 presidential elections 46% of the Spanish voice, According to NBC EXIT surveys, a dramatic improvement compared to his 32% in 2020. He defeated the previous Republican high water marking of George W. Bush of 40% in 2004, as noted by Alfredo Ortiz, President and CEO of Job Creators Network. For example, Trump campaigned in Bronx Borough in New York City, which is predominantly democratic.
President Donald Trump is holding a meeting in the historic Democratic district of the South Bronx on 23 May 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images / Getty Images)
On September 30, viewers who watch the main bundle of YouTube TV Univision will lose and have to pay an extra $ 14.99 per month on top of $ 82. 99 for the service devised a move that ALEGRE devised a ‘Spanish tax’.
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