Ana Patricia Candiani, main anchor at Telemundo’s KVEA-52 in Los Angeles since early 2011, and Martín Plascencia, a reporter at the station for over 20 years, have been laid off.
At least two other people at KVEA – a writer and an assignment desk editor – were given pink slips. Those cuts took place on Monday.
Sources are reporting at least three people have lost their jobs at KTLM in McAllen and another five at Telemundo 51 in Miami.
A spokesperson for the NBCUniversal-owned TV Stations division would not say how many people lost their jobs or address specific layoffs, but issued the following statement:
“The NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations division has reduced its workforce to best position the division to meet Company objectives in a changing economic environment. As a result, valued colleagues at NBC and Telemundo owned stations will be leaving our Company. We made these very difficult decisions with the long-term interest of our Company in mind. We sincerely thank our colleagues for their service to their stations, our division and NBCUniversal. Our local HR teams will be fully supporting our colleagues during this transition.”
According to a source, the “workforce reductions” will affect employees cross various markets and functions, but smaller stations did not experience as much of an impact due to their already lean operations.
Other Telemundo stations are being notified today of cuts.
The layoffs aren’t just hitting the Telemundo stations. They are company-wide and stem from revenue losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Wall Street Journal today reported NBCUniversal saw a 25% reduction in revenue during the second quarter, due to some of the company’s halted and/or limited business operations, such as theme park closures, postponement of movie releases and a drop in advertising.
The layoffs are supposed to impact less than 10% of NBCUniversal’s 35,000 employees. About 4,300 employees work at 30 NBC/Telemundo owned stations.
Telemundo sigue haciendo m@$#:€_! Despiden talentos, producers, editors y no despide a los news director, vice news directors, productores ejecutivos y jefes de marketing todos brutos, vagos, acosadores, incompetentes que llenan las televisoras de sus amiguitos. Tipejos, sanguijuelas, vividores a costa de la compañía, explotadores. No saben nada de noticias, ni de gerencia, ni español que solo entorpecen el trabajo de los teams y que ganan salarios exagerados. Improvisados e inútiles como los jefes de Telemundo Houston. HASTA CUANDO Despidan a esos pansones y retorcidos y parásitos y veran que seran rentables.
Que pena saber q Ana Patricia Candiani no estara conduciendo el noticiero. Ella es una periodista de 1ra. Telemundo no sabe lo que se pierde. Ya no vere mas su canal!!!!
no sabia que la vian despedido a Ana Patatricia Candiani, Pues ahora no vere mas esas noticias de Telemundo.
Welp welp welp welp welp welp welp there goes almost 10 years of making Telemundo stations competitive to the point they were beating Univision Stations (when starting to break down a little) all the hard work and investment in new studios talent changes, news expansions going down the drain cause of AD Revenue loss. And we can blame Trump for that for his horrible leadership of combating the Coronavirus. But back to this, what I’m thinking about is this won’t be the first and only one this probably the beginning. What has me up in arms what if I trickles up to the network then what Noticias Telemundo just got up to pair News Division wise with Univision in all time slots they have news, they accomplished that when they expanded there late night newscast to weekends. They don’t need to fall back in the days when Pedro Sevcec was lagging and running out of steam and Telemundo only had news at 6:30 Monday-Friday and briefly for three weeks no Network Morning show… no that doesn’t need to happen I also concerned about Telemundo Chicago, Telemundo 48 San Francisco and Telemundo Phoenix and Raleigh they all just got back on there feet a few blows will knock em out. A few layoffs can be okay but a big blow will wipe them out, in fact bury them in fact like NBCU 2.0 did from 2006-2010 they barely been on there feet for a decade now. It’s concerning because they could be profiting it’s political season they could be earning a lot to fill the lost revenue food by advertisers since the Hispanic vote is the most powerful this should be a good idea for them so no this isn’t an excuse to cut anchors especially Ana Patrica and Martin Plascencia they are both veterans and should have been saved contractually with some reductions I see them both bolting to either network or Univision… NBCU fucking around and they gonna pick Telemundo hard in fact I think Hispanics will probably hardest hit by this recession harder than blacks were in 2008-2009. Hispanic will be the hardest hit minority you can trust me on that.
Blame Trump?
TDS is a real condition. Please have it checked out.
Here we go again with Telemundo and Univision.
Never let a crisis to go to a waste.
The perfect storm, now Covid19, used to get rid of good talents, history and legacy in order to make the payroll book looks leaner and ready for the next round of both younger and cheaper hiring spree. All this, at the same time when they keep on saving by sending workers to work remotely and indefinitely.
The U tent, firing and putting some others under furlough fashion today, then hiring and promoting C-corner executives the next day.
The T tent, with a powerful granddaddy donating 100 millions for the so called Social Injustice then cutting salaries or then laying off employees as well since “Covid has affected us all the same”.
The real Injustice is to cut to families off from their plans, future, obligations, happiness. Try those BigCorp and grow a heart for once in your life.
De acuerdo con Christian. Sobretodo en KVEA el director hace lo que quiere. Le falta respeto a todos, incluyendo mujeres. No toma en cuenta la voz de nadie. Y todos amenazados para no decir nada. Alguien tiene que hablar. Hubo casos de COVID y nadie dijo nada. Prohibidos hablar.
Alguien tiene que hacer una investigación a fondo ahí. Y no es la única ciudad con ese problema
Telemundo and Univision are just doing more of the same. The COVID situation has only been an excuse. By the way, all their campaigns urging people to stay home, not work, close businesses, etc. and all their excessive and alarming COVID coverage to cause major fear has only lead to hurt the economy to hurt Trump and blame Trump for all things bad but never really acknowledge anything good (that’s all they care for now with all their pro Democrats/Liberal PROPAGANDA, their support for criminal and destructive organizations like Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA, and their efforts in not delivering fair news). Now they’re being hurt themselves, BUT they’re also taking this as an opportunity to get rid of more expensive talent that they can replace with cheaper new young “talent”.
I personally don’t know Ms. Candiani, but I always thought that she was very talented and one of the best, her voice sounded great, and she had experience and good personality. I’m very sorry for her and all the others affected. This is very, very sad.
No not true, latinx viewers have called out Telemundo and Univision for showing just violent images, of black lives matter protest on social media. There was a hashtag on how there less black representation in the spanish-language industry nothing but white hispanic not black Hispanics like Dominicans. And his latinx people have yo y’all there parent the difference and explain the misinformation Blancavision and BlancaMundo are going I stopped watching them for a whole week when latinx people exposed the network for the racism they are.
Telemundo and Univision, just doing more of the same. They use COVID as an excuse after they engaged in these extensive and alarming campaigns asking people to stay home and installing great fear in the audience, to create chaos and hurt the economy to in turn hurt Trump (which is all they care for, with their big PROPAGANDA machine pro Democrats and Liberals, supporting “peaceful” groups like Black Lives Matter and Antifa; and always blaming Trump for everything bad, but never giving him credit for anything good, not one single thing. Insane).
It’s sad and interesting how all this is now hurting them, BUT we all know that they’re taking advantage of the situation and using COVID as an excuse to get rid of veteran talents, and then real soon they’ll be hiring new and cheaper “talent”.
I just learned that Ana Patricia and the ones in LA are not the only ones. Maria Celeste (who was always very biased favoring the Democrats on everything) and Rashel Diaz (who always promoted liberal views) are both gone. Regardless of anything, these two women were also very talented and popular, and this action was not expected. Same with Erika Csiszer, who was very beautiful and always did a pleasant job. And same with all the others they let go of Un Nuevo Dia throughout the years, like Sandarti, popular Daniel Sarcos, Neida Sandoval, Ana maria Canseco, etc.
I never met Ms. Candiani in person, but I always liked her, I thought she was very talented, her voice sounded great, she looked very nice and had a friendly and professional personality on air. I feel very bad for her, for the others in LA, the Network in Miami and all the other stations. Like others are saying here, too bad that they don’t get rid of abusive producers and new directors that behave like tyrannical kings, mistreating talent and the public.
This is all very sad.
En Orlando el GM “renunció” (mencionado en demanda millonaria contra NBC por acoso sexual y conocido mujeriego). Tenía a la novia en noticias y amiguitas en varios departamentos. Al director de noticias lo sacaron sin mucha explicación… Ambos, gente que ellos mismos pusieron allí hace dos años. Ahora sacaron a 2 en ventas y un IT. Seguro vendrán cambios de talento también pero quién más les va a trabajar cobrando tan poco? Hay mucha gente que no está feliz. Lo que hacen es sacarle el jugo a la gente y los salarios prácticamente los mismos que la gente tenía con ZGS pero con más restricciones. La gente no puede tener sus propias compañías de producción y tienen que estar on-call 24/7. Para no pagar overtime, se inventaron horarios rotativos para poder sacar a flote un noticiero de mediodía y de fin de semana SIN recursos adicionales…Gente que lleva trabajando 15 años debe turnear sus fines de semana con gente que llegó hace un año al canal…cuando se pregunta por el seniority se dice: “acá no es por seniority, es por performance”. Yo diría que no es ni por lo uno ni por lo otro, si no por conveniencia… Telemundo 31 es una carnicería…muchos buscando trabajo ahora…
Hola Juan, me interesa mucho su punto de vista, ya que viví en Orlando por más de 9 años y trabajé en par de canales de televisión. Luego me mudé para Miami donde trabajé para una conocida cadena de cable tv
por 8 años y ahora estoy en Puerto Rico, pero con planes de regresar a Orlando. Quiero saber más de la situación actual de las estaciones de televisión en la Florida Central. Yo pensé que con el cambio de dueños de Telemundo 31 de ZGS a NBCUniversal las cosas mejorarían.
Los noticieros del 31 dan pena. Son refritos malos malos y da asco. Esperaba mas de Vizcon porque cuando el estuvo en Las Noticias Univision, tenia un buen producto al aire. A mi me da cosa que los noticieros hispanos no rompen noticia, no hacen investigaciones como los noticieros en ingles. Especialmente Telemundo 31 comparado con WFTV, WKMG o WESH.
Se acabó parte de la mafia que hay en el 52 kvea
. Todavía quedan algunas ratas sueltas .desafortunadamente ni la amiga de Ana Patricia GM del canal la pudo salvar …tiene suerte Dunia…y de Martin..no había porque sacarlo…era mejor despedir a la GM..bastante dinero que gana..
Sorprendida por lo que pasa en Telemundo El Paso. Alejandro Pariente un news director improvisado y vago va a llevar a la Sra Lorena Castañeda al infierno. Ya no esta Georgiana Terrazas y despidieron a Toñito Favela un tipo talentoso y multipremiado. Sin él los deportes han perdido emoción y calidad. Hasta cuando ese tipejo baboso de Pariente va a estar de director de noticias?
https://youtu.be/yCdD3WLpR5A
Son también portoriqueños y una venezolana creadores de situaciones similares a las de Denver en Telemundo Houston.
Hay de todas las nacionalidades….personas incompetentes e irrespetuosas que han llevado a las empresas y noticieros a lo más bajo de la industria…