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Noted Colombian Journalist Victor Javier Solano Named Weekend Anchor Of “Noticias Univision 41” As Rating Soar – Univision Weekend News Now Number One In New York
New York, NY -- Noted Colombian journalist Victor Javier Solano has been named weekend anchor of “Noticias Univision 41,” the newscasts of New York’s premier Spanish-language TV station, Univision 41 (WXTV), it was announced today by News Director Norma Morato. Solano is a four time winner of the Simon Bolivar National Journalism Award, the top journalistic prize in his native Colombia. Solano has anchored the weekend news on Univision 41 on a temporary basis since the summer of 2006, a period during which both the Saturday and Sunday 6 pm newscasts on Univision 41 placed first in the ratings for the first time ever.
“Solano’s ratings have been through the roof,” Morato said in making the announcement. “In the December survey, our Saturday and Sunday 6 pm newscasts were the top rated news programs in their time periods in New York in all three key audience groups.”
The Saturday 6 pm “Noticias Univision 41” was watched by an average of 60,000 New Yorkers aged 18 to 34, 137,000 aged 18 to 49, and 140,000 aged 25 to 54 according to Nielsen Station Index (NSI) Local People Meter (LPM) ratings. The news on WCBS-TV Channel 2 placed second among those aged 18 to 34 and 18 to 49, while the 6 pm “Eyewitness News” on WABC-TV Channel 7 placed second among those aged 25 to 54.
The Sunday, 6 pm “Noticias Univision 41” was watched by an average of 47,000 New Yorkers aged 18 to 34, 125,000 aged 18 to 49, and 141,000 aged 25 to 54. In each case the 6 pm “Eyewitness News” on WABC-TV Channel 7 placed second.
Victor Javier Solano earned a journalism degree in his native Colombia before becoming a reporter and TV anchor in the capital, Bogotá. Narco-terrorism and the drug cartels dominated his reporting. In 1990, he got an interview with Manuel Marulanda Velez, one of the world’s most notorious guerrilla fighters. He later made a mark exposing high-level corruption.
In 1995, after working eight years in Colombia, Solano was sent to Washington, DC as the correspondent for a Colombian TV news program. Two years later he later joined CBS Telenoticias, a Spanish-language news network organized by CBS. He spent the next seven years as a news anchor and reporter for Telemundo in Chicago and New York before joining Univision 41 in the summer of 2006.
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 99% of U.S. Hispanic Households; TeleFutura Network, a general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network, which was launched in 2002 and now reaches 87% of U.S. Hispanic Households; Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 62 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Spanish-language radio group which owns and/or operates 69 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and 4 stations in Puerto Rico; Univision Music Group, which includes Univision Records, Fonovisa Records, La Calle Records and Mexico-based Disa Records 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 14.9% 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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