New Hispanic Network for South Florida

MIAMI, January 11:
According to the Miami Herald,
a new network for Hispanic audiences, named Buenavisión, is slated to launch in
South Florida this spring.

The network will be the
seventh Spanish-language station in the South Florida area. It is slated to
launch April 1 by Caribevisión Holdings, a partnership between Carlos Barba, a
former Univision and Telemundo executive, and Mexico's Grupo Pegaso, which is
led by Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga, a cousin of Televisa chief Emilio Azcárraga
Jean.

Barba told the Florida
newspaper: “We're going to show the television people want to see. We're going
to have local flavor with network efficiency.”

Programming will include
telenovelas, interactive video games and reality shows. The station will also
have a newscast for Haitian audiences. It is being carried on WFUN, which
Caribevisión bought for $3 million from LocalOne. It is expected to expand to
the New York area in May on WPXO-TV. ''We're looking at other properties in
Denver, Washington, California and Texas,” Barba is quoted as saying.