Media + Did You Know Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

August 20, 2008

More than eight in 10 Hispanics said they received health information from alternative sources, such as television and radio.

June 16, 2008

Did You Know? Raul Alarcon Sr. was a communications pioneer in Cuba, he founded his first radio station on the island in the early 1950s. When he came to the U.S. in 1960, he left behind a network of 14 stations that had been seized by Fidel Castro’s government.

May 28, 2008

Did You Know? As a whole, Hispanic households are the least ready for the transition (to digital TV). As a result, the effect of unready households on total viewing is more likely to affect Hispanic networks than Anglo networks. Viewing to unready sets accounts for 17 percent of prime-time viewing to English-language broadcast networks and 26.8 percent to Spanish-language broadcast networks.

April 25, 2008

Did You Know? Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and a columnist for the New York Daily News. In 1968 Juan was a member of SDS and one of the only Latino activists on the Columbia campus- Forty Years After Historic Columbia Strike

March 31, 2008

Did You Know? English-speaking Hispanic women were found to be the most active TV show streamers

February 1, 2008

Did You Know? DishLATINO now carries 37 Spanish-language channels to the U.S. market

January 29, 2008

Did You Know? In all, there are now 12.14 million Hispanic TV households in the U.S., according to Doug Darfield, the senior VP of multicultural measurement at The Nielsen Company.

September 27, 2007

Did You Know? Between 1813 and 1937, there are records of 431 Hispanic newspapers published in the United States, nearly all in Spanish.

September 9, 2007

Did You Know? Although the Presidential debate will be on the Spanish language network Univison, the candidates are not allowed to speak in Spanish. So if you happen to be bi-lingual, sorry.

September 7, 2007

Did You Know? In 2004, 75% of all adult Hispanics got their news in English, and 66% in Spanish

Did You Know? Phoenix passed the San Francisco Bay Area to move from No. 9 to No. 8 with 358,440 Hispanic television homes.

August 29, 2007

Did You Know? Together, the four Spanish-language networks in the US took in more than $3bn in advertising in 2006, according to Nielsen, up from $1.8bn five years earlier

July 30, 2007

Did You Know? Nearly twice as many people watched the Spanish-language broadcast of the Gold Cup final on June 24 between the U.S. and Mexico than saw the last deciding Stanley Cup match.

June 24, 2007

Did You Know? El Sentinel, the weekly published by the Orlando Sentinel, won first place in general excellence. Reporter Walter Pacheco won first place in Spanish-language education reporting and second place in the “outstanding Hispanic success story” category. – Florida Society of Newspaper Editors

May 31, 2007

Did You Know? Mexico is second only to Iraq in the number of reporters killed in the country.

April 8, 2007

Did You Know? According to Arbitron, at last count there were just over 700 radio stations and 200 television stations broadcasting in Spanish.

April 5, 2007

Did You Know? For the first time in the 29 years that the American Society of Newspaper Editors has been keeping track, the percentage of Hispanic journalists employed in the newsrooms of this country’s English-language daily newspapers declined this year.

February 1, 2007

Did You Know? An average of 15.7% of Hispanics, or approximately 6.1 million viewers, watched the 2006 Super Bowl. About 19.1% of Hispanics over age 55 watched the game, the highest rating for any age category of Hispanic viewers.

January 5, 2007

Did You Know? ABC News Correspondent Manuel Medrano is the first Latino in the history of the Supreme Court press corps.

October 25, 2006

NBC is not doing away with local newscasts at any of its English-language stations — only with its Telemundo properties

October 22, 2006

In 2005, out of an estimated 12,500 stories aired by ABC, CBS and NBC, the three major English-language networks, only 105 were exclusively about Latinos or Latino-related issues

October 18, 2006

Did You Know? The first Spanish-language newspaper in the United States was established in 1539

October 15, 2006

Did You Know? Central Ohio is now home to at least five weekly and bi-weekly Spanish-language newspapers, and two radio stations.