“Like Univision, The Root aims to serve a significant segment of America’s diverse population”

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Isaac Lee, president of news and digital for Univision Communications, said in a press release. “Our diverse communities are continuing to define the fabric of the country, from buying power, to social influence, to elections.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/ ... 24226.html

Why should anyone care? Here are four reasons:

1. Because if it's of interest to millennials, it's of interest to you.

2. The minority/majority shift is a shift of perspective -- not just population.

3. Budgets need to stop pitting these groups against each other.

4. Black Hispanics are not African-Americans who speak Spanish??

Henry Louis Gates Jr., chairman of the Root stated, "This bold new partnership between Univision and The Root underscores the ties that have long bound people of color together throughout the Western Hemisphere and is a sign of even greater levels of communication, collaboration and exchange between these culturally vital groups of people."

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What's going to happen when the Fed is out of business? Who is going to reload those EBT cards?

A tidal wave of refugees is coming

The problems of sub-Saharan Africa (as well as Pakistan and other troubled countries) are physically too large for the West to remedy: The sheer numbers of people in distress soon will exceed the total population of the industrial world. That means that there is a point in time at which the most devout pussy-hat wearing, virtue-signaling, politically correct liberal will pretend not to notice millions of starving children dying before his eyes.

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With 52 million viewers and counting, the network is nipping at the heels of the Big Four networks as the brand most recognized and trusted by Latinos -- second only to the Church.

Univision is making itself heard on the political landscape, only partially because the Spanish-speaking constituency in the U.S. numbers 23 million registered voters. "Without the Hispanic vote, you can't make it to the White House," notes Ramos.

The Hispanic population has grown at a rate of 43 percent since 2000 -- four times the national growth rate, according to the U.S. Census. Latinos are firmly established in all corners of culture, from sports (Major League Baseball is nearly 30 percent Hispanic) to entertainment (Sofia Vergara, Pitbull, Shakira and Justin Bieber paramour Selena Gomez are crossover superstars) to politics and government (San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro made a splash at the Democratic convention in September; in 2009 Sonia Sotomayor became the first Latina Supreme Court justice). By 2050, one in three Americans will be Hispanic, according to the Pew Research Center. Right now, the country's 52 million Hispanics are sitting on $1.2 trillion in spending power.

"This is a big wave," says Falco, who joined Univision as COO in January 2011 (after a stint at AOL) and was elevated to CEO less than six months later. "You're either going to be on top of it when it hits or you're going to be underneath it. But it's hitting."

84 percent of Hispanic millennials choose to speak Spanish

Another piece of the expansion is a streaming and social-destination business designed to appeal to younger constituents. Hispanics over-index in mobile technology (45 percent of Hispanic mobile phone users have smartphones, compared to 34 percent in the general market).
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... nic-379441

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It's going to be great guys. You will all be racial minorities and I am sure affirmative action will kick in for white people any day now..

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Inside the Univision-Clinton network...The ties between the Clintons and the Spanish language television network run deep

The relationship between the Clintons and Univision is deep — from owner Haim Saban’s unabashed support for Hillary Clinton’s election effort to a partnership between Univision and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, to the network’s newscasts that have bashed Republicans and, most recently, praised Hillary’s new position on immigration — putting her squarely in line with the network’s stance on the issue.

The importance of Univision for the Latino electorate and 2016 is hard to overstate.

“You have to go to Univision to get to Latino voters,”

Univision and the Clinton Foundation joined forces in 2014 for a multiyear early childhood initiative dubbed Pequeños y Valiosos (or Young and Valuable). The relationship proved of immediate value to Hillary Clinton, whose face was featured in five of seven slides on Univision’s website promoting the initiative in February 2014. She also held a New York media event at which reporters couldn’t ask her questions.

https://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/ ... ton-117851

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I just don't understand how they keep getting away with this...

“It is not inconceivable that Haim Saban, a well-known and longtime financial supporter of the Clintons, would be putting pressure on Univision to terminate an iron-clad contract with the Miss Universe organization and Mr. Trump,” Cohen told TheDC.

Saban, who bought Univision in 2007, has donated at least $25 million to the Clinton Foundation. And his wife, Cheryl, sits on the board of the nonprofit. Last year, Univision and the Clinton Foundation embarked on a joint effort called “Pequeños y Valiosos,” Politico reported last month.

Besides supporting the Clinton’s philanthropic efforts, Saban is also a heavy political supporter of the Clintons. Last year, he told Bloomberg that he would donate “as much as needed” to help get Clinton elected in 2016.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/25/donal ... -decision/

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Jorge and his Univision News colleagues are the primary reason we are the most trusted brand for Hispanic America, as measured by Burke. Our viewers are three times more likely to say that Univision is a “source I trust” and a “channel I am proud to watch” than the viewers of the English-language “Big Four.”