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Univision Becomes First-Ever Spanish-Language Broadcaster to Receive a Peabody Award
“¡Salud es Vida… Entérate!” health initiative represents best in electronic media
Los Angeles, CA -- Univision Communications Inc. (NYSE: UVN), the leading Spanish-language media company in the United States, today announced that its cross-platform health initiative, “¡Salud es Vida… Entérate!” was honored with a Peabody Award, the first ever for a Spanish-language broadcast company. Univision’s ‘¡Entérate!’ was chosen as one of 32 programs that represent the best in electronic media for 2004.
The Peabody Awards, considered the broadcast and cable industry’s most prestigious honor, recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. “The winners announced suggest further developments in a new era for electronic media,” said Horace Newcomb, Peabody Awards director. “What was once a shared broadcast experience now more and more reflects individual use of carefully targeted systems. The work of the Peabody Awards Board certainly becomes more difficult in this context – but it also becomes even more significant.”
“We are extremely proud of the accomplishments of ‘¡Entérate!,’ and we are honored to receive a Peabody Award for our innovative and educational public information health initiative,” said Ivelisse Estrada, Senior Vice President of Corporate and Community Relations, Univision Communications Inc. “We are very grateful that the Peabody Board recognizes the Company’s community outreach efforts, and we accept this honor on behalf of our viewers.”
Univision Communications Inc. is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Its operations include Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 98% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 81% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 27 Univision Network television stations and 1 non-Univision television station; TeleFutura Television Group, which owns and operates 33 TeleFutura Network television stations; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 66 radio stations in 17 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 4 stations in Puerto Rico; Univision Music Group, which includes Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, and a 50% interest in Mexico-based Disa Records labels as well as Fonomusic and America Musical Publishing companies; and Univision Online, the premier Spanish-language Internet destination in the U.S. located at www.univision.com. Univision Communications also has a 50% interest in TuTv, a joint venture formed to broadcast Televisa’s pay television channels in the U.S., and a non-voting 27% interest in Entravision Communications Corporation, a public Spanish-language media company. Univision Communications is headquartered in Los Angeles with television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.
For more information, please visit www.univision.net.
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