Telemundo is expanding its local news footprint and says it plans to immediately hire 30 employees nationwide to staff the effort.
Starting September 26, the Telemundo Station Group is adding a 30-minute 5 pm weekday newscast to 14 of its stations.
This is the second half-hour expansion in less than two years. Telemundo previously launched a 5:30 pm local newscast in November of 2014, kicking off a hiring spree to staff the new shows.
The new addition means there will be a change to the programming line-up in those stations. The 5 pm newscast will replace “The Best of Caso Cerrado.”
The following Telemundo stations will add the new 5 pm newscast: Telemundo 52 Los Angeles (KVEA), Telemundo 47 New York (WNJU), Telemundo 51 Miami (WSCV), Telemundo Houston (KTMD), Telemundo 39 Dallas-Fort Worth (KXTX), Telemundo Chicago (WSNS), Telemundo 48 Area de la Bahia (KSTS), Telemundo 60 San Antonio (KVDA), Telemundo Phoenix (KTAZ), Telemundo Tucson (KHRR), Telemundo 40 Rio Grande Valley (KTLM), Telemundo Denver (KDEN), Telemundo62 Philadelphia (WWSI) and Telemundo Las Vegas (KBLR).
Really Telemundo, some of these Telemundo station are currently struggling in the ratings like KSTS (Which was doing tremendous last year, I don’t know what happened but they say with the cancellation of the morning newscast for weekend newscast they say ratings would do better or KBLR (Las Vegas) or KTLM ( Rio Grande Valley) KSTS. I’m also a little happy about this now hour-long extension for 5pm because now from a half-hour to full-hour competition of Univision’s Primer Impacto on most or even all of these markets. The objective hopefully is hispanic will choose Telemundo for Local news instead of a newsmagazine. For KVEA,WNJU,WSNS,WSCV,KTAZ-KHRR,KDEN,WWSI,KXTX,KStS,KTMD its been successful. But all 14 Telemundo station are still behind because WKAQ-TV Puerto Rico is the only NBC-Telemundo Station with a full-fledged 5pm newscast which they’ve had a full hour 5pm for years on weekdays and weekends as of 2014 launch of “Telenoticias Fin De Semana” . which also airs full-hour at 5pm on weekends. I hope these Telemundo stations have great success with this now full-hour 5pm timeslot newscast. Just recently 3 of the 14 of these 14 Telemundo stations english companion launched 4pm newscast, those companion are also owned by NBCUniversal, so I guess this was the spanish-language news extension. Those english-language companion that launched the 4pm newscast was WNBC (TV) New York, KNBC (TV) Los Angeles, WTVJ (TV)Miami, and WViT (TV) Hartford which has no Telemundo Companion in that market. Telemundo is over there its WRMD but it currently has no spanish-language news department and is owned to ZGS Communications.
Gavin, where did you learn to write? You have horrible grammar and sentence structure.
Miguel, are you the grammatical police?
I have dyslexia that means I have problems with reading and writing, say that to someone in the streets they will beat you up, say in my face I will beat you up. Are you supposed to be the “Grammar Police” or the “Grammar EMT” I would like to see your spelling, grammar, and sentence structure when you’re trying to right something down in a paragraph, especially if its thoughts coming out of you head, say it again I’ll report you to Veronica to ban you from the website. I’m trying to be nice and not curse, she already told I can’t say curse words on this site, I tell on you for smack talking me. So better leave me alone.
Una compañía de televisión sin creatividad que repite programas de una corte que ya aburren por más de 15 años que no tiene la capacidad de crear más contenido interesante por las tardes y recurre a llenar los noticieros locales de puros paquetes aburridos de las estaciones de Florida y California simplemente un liderazgo sin capacidad para llevar mejor contenido al público hispano si ya con una hora de noticias aburren haciendo segmentos del clima repetitivos y aburridos y además sobrecargando a sus empleados de una manera extrema.. Esto me dice que no hay una visión clara y objetiva de desarrollo en quienes dirigen esta compañía ya en muchos casos no tienen más que un par de años de experiencia y un buen “padrino” que los meta a “corporate world” Me gustaría ver quién en sus cinco sentidos se va a sentar una hora y 30 minutos para ver noticias locales después de tragarse un Al rojo vivo que ya es más que aburrido como ver a un raton en su carrusel y luego de postre 30 minutos de noticias nacionales de nuevo con la misma presentadora porque el flamante presentador no genera ratings pero bueno así es la televisión hispana ahí hay oportunidad para todos los que están inconformes en la otra televisora para que busquen trabajo aunque luego cuando sepan la cruda realidad de trabajar doble turno por un salario de “manager de fast food” querrán volver de dónde salen…
A los flamantes cerebros que se les ocurren estas ideas aquí le regaló un par, en lugar de estar contratando todo lo que Univision ya no quiere porque que ya no genera interés o que la audiencia ya se aburrió qué tal si mejor comienzan a buscar talento creativo en América Latina que hay de sobra y dejen de estar saturando a la audiencia con noticias locales inexistentes sólo por llenar espacio al aire y así no desperdician millones en contratos de talento que no generan nada para la compañía.