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Azteca América Will Cease Operations After 22 Years

Oof sad to see this network go but at the same time we have been watching the shift from OTA and Cable to streaming.

It will be an interesting one to see what will happen to the TV stations owned by HC2 holdings and where they are going.



KEMO-TV San Francisco also holds an Estrella affiliation for now along with Azteca America. Not so sure where the others are going.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Oof sad to see this network go but at the same time we have been watching the shift from OTA and Cable to streaming.

It will be an interesting one to see what will happen to the TV stations owned by HC2 holdings and where they are going.



KEMO-TV San Francisco also holds an Estrella affiliation for now along with Azteca America. Not so sure where the others are going.
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Azteca doesn't have a streaming app but Estrella does have Pluto channels. We seen Vix from TUni merging with Pantaya and Peacock is streaming Telemundo's Spanish commentary of the World Cup in Qatar.
 
Tijuana-SD affiliate XHAS which once affiliated with Telemundo until 2017 (the same time The CW moved to Channel 8.2) will drop Azteca America tomorrow Nov. 2. I don't understand why Milenio or Nueve owner Televisa or a pubcaster SPR didn't buy a station in Tijuana-SD (Canal 66 extiende su señal a Tijuana)
 
Estrella Media already has programming agreement with Mexico's Azteca, Some of their good performing content might be added to the Estrella network in the future.

KEMO-TV in the Bay Area will eventually be bought by Estrella Media and become fully owned and carry Spanish-language local news castings. Estrella Media is growing so as the Hispanic population in the U.S. Expect to see Estrella buy stations in top Hispanic U.S cities.
 
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Radiomusik said:
Estrella Media already has programming agreement with Mexico's Azteca, Some of their good performing content might be added to the Estrella network in the future.

KEMO-TV in the Bay Area will eventually be bought by Estrella Media and become fully owned and carry Spanish-language local news castings. Estrella Media is growing so as the Hispanic population in the U.S. Expect to see Estrella buy stations in top Hispanic U.S cities.
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Like Standard Media selling back it's Dallas station, I doubt that. But If Estrella wants to expand they should full powered stations especially in the larger centers like NYC, Chicago, Orlando, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Boston, and many more.
 
DarrenVision said:
But If Estrella wants to expand they should full powered stations especially in the larger centers like NYC, Chicago, Orlando, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Boston, and many more.
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They would have to start with many other markets before Seattle, SLC, Kansas City, Philly and Boston because those have far less Hispanic populations than ones like Fresno, Bakersfield, Austin, San Antonio, Tucson, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Miami and El Paso.
 
DavidEduardo said:
They would have to start with many other markets before Seattle, SLC, Kansas City, Philly and Boston because those have far less Hispanic populations than ones like Fresno, Bakersfield, Austin, San Antonio, Tucson, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Miami and El Paso.
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Estrella used to have a station in SLC but Estrella might buy it's affiliate in Fresno, as for the others there's not enough full power stations but subchannels might be necessary if they unable to reach via low-power station subject to must carry cable carriage. Keep that mind that Gray has been brave enough to expand Telemundo beyond the core hispanic centers, plus COX media group in Charlotte and Seattle. Univision got it's head start in Raleigh/Durham, Atlanta, Cleveland, New England, and Seattle. As hispanic population grows beyond the core LA/NYC/Miami/SA/Houston/DFW markets as does the bordertown cities and moderate ones like Chicago and Fresno, so does fta reach plus mandatory cable must carry and local hispanic businesses needed to advertise.
 
DarrenVision said:
Estrella used to have a station in SLC but Estrella might buy it's affiliate in Fresno, as for the others there's not enough full power stations but subchannels might be necessary if they unable to reach via low-power station subject to must carry cable carriage. Keep that mind that Gray has been brave enough to expand Telemundo beyond the core hispanic centers, plus COX media group in Charlotte and Seattle. Univision got it's head start in Raleigh/Durham, Atlanta, Cleveland, New England, and Seattle. As hispanic population grows beyond the core LA/NYC/Miami/SA/Houston/DFW markets as does the bordertown cities and moderate ones like Chicago and Fresno, so does fta reach plus mandatory cable must carry and local hispanic businesses needed to advertise.
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Remember that "Hispanic" is not equal to "Spanish speaking". Markets like Albuquerque and San Antonio have less than 20% of local Hispanics who speak Spanish and so Spanish language media has a rather minor impact.

The same occurs with Northeastern USA markets with Puerto Rican heritage . The Boricua migration pretty much ended before 1970 and now those Spanish speakers are in their later 60's and 70's. The kids learned English, often with punishment in schools if they didn't.

In those places, Hispanic businesses advertise in English on general market stations.

Generally, you only find second generation Hispanics being Spanish dominant in the huge markets like LA and Houston and Dallas and Chicago and Miami.

And, of course, the taste in TV programming is vastly different between different nationalities and ethnicities. That is why Univision failed to achieve traction with TV in Puerto Rico, for example.
 
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Mgomrjsurf said:
KMBC/KCWE is one of the Hearst Stations that doesn't have Estrella TV yet.
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They don't need to because K.C. is not a huge Latino market.
 
Radiomusik said:
Kansas City is not ready for that yet, there population is less than 55,000. We're talking bigger markets.
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The Kansas City MSA has 215,000 Hispanics per the 2021 update to Census data from Claritas, the sourse Nielsen uses.
 
DavidEduardo said:
Remember that "Hispanic" is not equal to "Spanish speaking". Markets like Albuquerque and San Antonio have less than 20% of local Hispanics who speak Spanish and so Spanish language media has a rather minor impact.

The same occurs with Northeastern USA markets with Puerto Rican heritage . The Boricua migration pretty much ended before 1970 and now those Spanish speakers are in their later 60's and 70's. The kids learned English, often with punishment in schools if they didn't.

In those places, Hispanic businesses advertise in English on general market stations.

Generally, you only find second generation Hispanics being Spanish dominant in the huge markets like LA and Houston and Dallas and Chicago and Miami.

And, of course, the taste in TV programming is vastly different between different nationalities and ethnicities. That is why Univision failed to achieve traction with TV in Puerto Rico, for example.
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They still own one tv station left after they sold their radio stations and the now revived Teleonce. Telemundo once started in Puerto Rico ironically.
 
Radiomusik said:
Kansas City is not ready for that yet, there population is less than 55,000. We're talking bigger markets.
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KC gets
Also Telemundo St. Joseph OTA
"Univision Kansas City" KUKC
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beIN Sports Xtra en Español and on 46.5 and Azteca America still shown
Espanol
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Daystar Español 43.2
TXitos
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TeleXitos 39.5
KGKC
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Telemundo
KAJF-LD
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Novelisima
 
DarrenVision said:
Entravision has a Univision station in the neighboring Wichita (once managed by KWCH)
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Yes, that too combined with Nexstar having KSNW and Telemundo there on a sub.

Mgomrjsurf said:
KC gets
Also Telemundo St. Joseph OTA
"Univision Kansas City" KUKC
KQML-LD
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beIN Sports Xtra en Español and on 46.5 and Azteca America still shown
Espanol
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Daystar Español 43.2
TXitos
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TeleXitos 39.5
KGKC
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Telemundo
KAJF-LD
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Novelisima
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This post is a mess. Let me clean this up... KUKC 20 is Univision and KGKC 39 is Telemundo. You don't need more.
 
DavidEduardo said:
The Kansas City MSA has 215,000 Hispanics per the 2021 update to Census data from Claritas, the sourse Nielsen uses.
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I'm reading some outdated data. So technically would be the 2nd largest group after White Caucasians? At least there getting close.
 
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