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WXTV/41’s Pineda, Gotham’s Most Senior Anchorman, Wins Best Anchor Emmy – WXTV Wins Edward R. Murrow Award
New York, NY -- Spanish-language TV completed a double play in New York last night as Rafael Pineda, anchorman of Univision 41’s (WXTV) weekday evening news programs, “Noticias Univision 41” (Univision 41 News), won the Emmy as “Outstanding Anchor” in the 48th Annual New York Area Emmy Awards administered by The New York TV Academy. Pineda, who has been news anchor on WXTV since January 6, 1972, is New York’s longest running anchorman. The 48th Annual New York Emmy Awards honor excellence in television broadcast between September 1, 2003 and August 31, 2004 in New York State and northern New Jersey.
Pineda’s win comes on the heels of another win by “Noticias Univision 41” reporter Berenice Gartner. Last week Gartner won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio & Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) for her story, “Sonrie Colombia.” For the weeklong series of reports, Gartner reported for the first time in 11 years from her native Colombia. The series chronicled the work of a group of volunteer plastic surgeons who worked to treat children’s wounds almost unheard of in the US.
“There were children with birth defects that their parents attribute to chemicals used by the government to eradicate the coca plant,” Saavedra said. Coca is the raw material of cocaine. “Some children suffered from burns that doctors said were consistent with explosions in cocaine factories. The doctors treated all children regardless of who they are. Some, we knew, are the children of the guerillas.” Colombia continues to be plagued by guerilla warfare.
Saavedra was so moved by what she saw that on days when she was not reporting, she became a volunteer with “Healing the Children,” translating Spanish to English for the American doctors and helping to care for the children who had surgery.
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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Frankie Miranda
Univision WXTV 41/ New York
201-287-8800
Ted Faraone
212-489-1313
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