After a 3 year trial of producing regionalized news for several top 10 Hispanic market stations via the Telemundo Production Center in Dallas, the network is reverting to producing local news. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix and San Jose will once again have locally produced news.
TPC staffers were notified they would be out of a job in a little over 60 days during a meeting last Friday. All reporters and videographers will have to reapply for VJ positions for the local newscasts. They were told they will receive training as an option to reapply. Some of the positions were eliminated. The “new” hires will be in place by January.
February 1st is the target date for the launch of the local newscasts, according to what TPC employees were told. There will be no local news directors. Instead, José Flores, currently TPC news director, will stay on in that role, supervising all local newscasts from Dallas. Each market will have an executive producer.
Telemundo network officials will not admit failure of their TPC project, but that’s what it was for some of the markets where local news was eliminated.
A ver si la he entendido. Los que YA fracasaron, seran entrenados en un mes (???) para que aprendan lo que a VERDADEROS profesionales les lleva anios????????
En muy poco tiempo usted estara hablando de nuevos despidos masivos en TELEMUNDO NEWS
P.D. La gente de Univision sigue riedo y festejando ante esta decision
This was a failure, doomed from the very beginning. This is just another example of the poor management NBC has had over Telemundo since the beginning when they were purchased back in 2001. Telemundo has done nothing but lose money and drain it from NBC/Universal. Now moving back to local news with poorly trained Vj's when the local news they had before was far superior than even Univision's in many markets (Dallas, Houston, San Jose) as a great example. The Dallas Telemundo affiliate is the only one outside of Miami to ever beat Univision during a sweeps period. But of course all that didn't matter and the local news was scrapped for this ridiculous Telemundo Production Center with lead stories from Dallas, airing in Phoenix, Las Vegas, etc. I mean you just can't make up this type of idiocy.