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Spanish Language TV Networks in Puerto Rico

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e-dawg

While visiting the island of Puerto Rico last week. I catch some tv in the island. I notice the only main OTA Spanish language channels from the mainland are Telemundo and Univision. However, both networks in Puerto Rico air programs at a different times or different channels. Also, I notice they don't have these Spanish Channels from the mainland. Telefutura, Azteca America, Estrella TV, or the new Spanish newtork MundoFox. Should Puerto Rico TV be unified with the Continental Spanish language TV stations network?
 
Yes and while we are at it bring CBS, NBC, Fox, CW, MyNetwork TV and ION to OTA television to Puerto Rico and don't forget about the sub-channels we all love such as ME-TV, This TV, Bounce, Movies!, Antenna TV, Cozi and Get TV.
 
e-dawg said:
While visiting the island of Puerto Rico last week. I catch some tv in the island. I notice the only main OTA Spanish language channels from the mainland are Telemundo and Univision. However, both networks in Puerto Rico air programs at a different times or different channels. Also, I notice they don't have these Spanish Channels from the mainland. Telefutura, Azteca America, Estrella TV, or the new Spanish newtork MundoFox. Should Puerto Rico TV be unified with the Continental Spanish language TV stations network?
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The Univision and Telemundo stations are affiliated with the mainland networks, but run a significant percantage of different programming.

One of the reasons is that some of the network fare from the mainland is too removed culturally from Puerto Rico. That includedes language usage, humor, music and customs. On the other hand, the Televisia soaps run by Univision do quite well, because Televisa in Mexico tries very hard to make those productions as viable in Chile as in Mexico and in Puerto Rico as well as Guatemala.

Azteca is culturally too far to the Mexican side to work in Puerto Rico... with Estrella being even less tasty to a Puerto Rican market where half the language employed is meaningless or means something else... setting aside the Estrella dependency on tubas and accordions in the music they play.

MundoFox has such awful ratings in the US that nobody would really want to run it on a "real" TV station in Puerto RIco, although it might be on cable where nobody will watch it, ever.

There is a saying about Latin America " 20 countries divided by a single language". Add in music, customs, local language variants and you have the reason why most of the mainland Spanish language TV operations are totally inappropriate for Puerto Rico.

Case in point: the usual word for picking up or taking something in Puerto Rico, "cojer" is the universal vulgarism for intercourse in Mexico. "Ahorita" in PR means "later" or "when I get around to it." It means "now" in Mexico. I could name hundreds and hundreds of differences, even without getting into the anglicisms in PR and the Náhuatl-origin words in México. And then there are different sets of Americanisms (meaning word usages that are different in The Americas from those of Spain) that further complicate matters.
 
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