New Jersey Radio Show Asks Listeners to Report Illegal Immigrants

A New Jersey radio show on 101.5 FM started a campaign named " La Cuca Gotcha" encouraging listeners to call in any suspects of illegal immigration. As you can imagine, the Hispanic community was outraged.
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''It's a despicable campaign and clearly slanted at Hispanics,'' said New Jersey Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo. ``The campaign describes us as bugs that have to be stamped out.''

Craig Carton and Ray Rossi, aka ''The Jersey Guys'' -- apologized publicly to New Jersey's Hispanics. They are known as "shock jocks" and have pulled these types of anticts before.

Their defense is that the campaign is not anti-Hispanic and that they want listeners to help authorities track down illegal immigrants ``of any origin.''

With Imus and the Rutgers team ordeal, it makes me wonder how far we take our freedom of speech. Personally, I'm not for censorship, but I am for manners and class.

Cool Hispanic Website from Missouri

While doing research for this blog, I came across the site MiLatino.com-a dynamic new player in the Latino web site market targeting 2nd generation, acculturated, bilingual Latinos ( source: MiLatino media kit).

MiLatino began in July 2006 when it was incorporated as MiLatino Media LLC in the state of Kansas.

I am impressed by how well-thought out and informative this site is. The site contains music videos, community news, sports, and even features some original reporting. I think it is a good site for Hispanic's living, or thinking about moving to, Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth and Missouri.

Internet Usage Among Young Hispanics

Only 56 percent of the nearly 43 million U.S. Hispanics use the Internet at all, versus 71 percent of non-Hispanic whites, according to a report released last week by Pew Hispanic Center.

The Hispanic Internet market may not be growing as fast as predicted, but it is changing. Broadband-video hubs such as Voy TV and Barrio305.com have emerged, looking to become the YouTube of the Hispanic world. Pioneer sites such as QuePasa.com and MiGente.com have been revamped as social networking explodes. It seems that everyone is trying to get on the Myspace-YouTube bandwagon.


Currently Hispanic online media space is dominated by Univision.com and by the Spanish-language versions of the Internet's top portals: MSN, AOL and the recently formed Yahoo! Telemundo. These are all TV extensions, not purely web portals. ( source: Media y Medios )


(side note: Unfortunately, my curiosity got the best of me and I visited Voy TV. Okay, pretty much, it is a soft-porn site. If you click " top videos" , all you see are girls in thongs. Ugh, another dissapointing Hispanic website. What a shame, so dissapointing.)

Zol 95 Morning Show Hosts Suddenly Resign

Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero of El
Vacilón de la Mañana on WXDJ El Zol (95.7 FM) have resigned from their hosting positions.

This DJ'ing pair (Santos pictured left, Ferrero right) is
famous for pulling an on-air prank to Cuban President Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez back in 2003.

Everyone, from employees at Spanish Broadcasting Systems to regular listeners, have been taken by surprise.
Santos told Hispanic Market Weekly that he and Ferrero acted after Liliana Rodríguez, host of El Zol’s afternoon show and daughter of singer José Luis ‘El Puma’Rodriguez, made fun of Vacilón during her first stint as afternoon drive
host. ''She was laughing, saying we've had enough of El Vacilón, things are gonna change,'' Santos told The Miami Herald.

It seems to me that these pranksters couldn't handle being on the other said of the joke. Like I tell my good friend Steve who LOVES pulling pranks but hates being made fun of: If you can't take it, don't dish it.

Univision Names New CEO

On April 1, Joe Uva will become chief executive officer of Univisión. Uva, the current chief executive officer of OMD Worldwide, is replacing Jerrold Perenchio,who stepped down as chairman."Univisión has enormous growth opportunities ahead of
it, and we are very pleased that an executive with Joe Uva's broad media experience, leadership abilities, and entrepreneurial qualities will be driving our
efforts to build value and take the company to the next level," said Broadcasting Media Partners Inc ("BMPI"), the investor group that is acquiring Univisión Communications.

( source: Hispanic Market Weekly read more )

Univision is the popular girl in high-school;full of drama, constantly sticking gum in Telemundo's hair and tripping poor Mexican Televisa during gym class.

Televisa has had enough of Univision and recently reaffirmed its intention of selling its 11% stake in the company .

I wonder how things will unravel once Uva takes his official post come April.

Stay tuned...

Univision Hit With Record Fine

You mean this isn't "educational?"But but, I learned how to shake it without breaking it.

According to the FCC, Univision Communications Inc. agreed to pay a $24 million penalty for its failure to meet the Children's Television Act, a 1996 regulation that requires networks to broadcast at least three hours a week of educational children's programming. The fine will allow the company to proceed with a $12 billion private equity buyout.

Univision maintained that it met those requirements by broadcasting several telenovelas, among them "Complices al Rescate," about 11-year-old twin girls who swapped identities after learning they were separated at birth. ( This sounds more traumatic than educational!)

The FCC however, did not agree. ( continue reading more: New York Times)

So you mean all those hours of " Sabado Gigante" and " El Gordo y La Flaca" weren't considered educational?! This explains a lot...