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...Cubans are coming! The Cubans are coming! That is the battle cry these days of angry Mexican Americans in the Los Angeles area. The target of their wrath: local TV station KVEA, an affiliate of Telemundo, the Spanish-language television network that hit the airwaves two years ago. Although West Coast Chicanos were at first delighted to tune into broadcasts in their own language, some gradually became alarmed at what they call the "Cubanization" of KVEA, which picks up much of its programming from Telemundo's operations center near Miami. "The programming does not reflect the linguistic, cultural and ethnic...
Encouraged by those burgeoning numbers, some American corporations have been eagerly pumping money into a market that once consisted mainly of lackluster small-circulation Spanish dailies. In 1988 the Hallmark greeting-card company bought Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., from a Mexican media conglomerate for nearly $600 million. The year before, Saul Steinberg's Reliance Group formed rival network Telemundo, which teamed up with CNN to produce a competing evening national news broadcast...
Last week the soap opera took another turn. In the midst of negotiations with the network over her future, Pauley disclosed to the Washington Post that she will probably leave Today by the end of the year. She will remain at NBC (her contract ties her to the network for two more years), though in exactly what capacity has yet to be determined...
...Margo defended his network's practices, saying, "We must respect the moral and religious views of our viewers...
...fraternities do not have the financial or moral support of the powerful alumni network of the final clubs to soften the administration's position on nationally affiliated organizations. In the face of their scarce resources, it is fair to assume they will have a tough time securing themselves a safe position in the social life of the University...