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CANNES: Stand Up for Your Country, Televisa Internacional’s latest format, is an entertainment series in which duos made up of parents and kids perform in front of a studio audience with one goal in mind: get the audience to deliver a standing ovation so they can move to the next …

BOGOTÁ: Caracol TV Internacional has for the first time added movies to its distribution catalogue, among them the mystery film Before the Fire. Other titles being added to the company’s portfolio are The Principal, about a Spanish dancer who moves to Colombia in order to change her luck, and the …

MIAMI: Univision Network has slated a May 3 premiere date for its new singing competition series Here I Stand (Me Pongo de Pie), featuring musical parent-child duos. The show will air Sunday nights for ten weeks. Through each episode, participants will face off singing traditional songs, along with modern hits. …

BUENOS AIRES: The Telefe series The Man of Your Dreams has launched in Finland. The title premiered on the FVOD platform Yle Areena, a service of Finnish public media company Yle. The series is the first Latin scripted program on the digital hub’s catalogue. Oscar winner Juan Jose Campanella wrote …

NEW YORK: Azteca America is entering the 2015-16 season with a programming slate featuring soccer coverage, telenovelas and a Turkish-drama pickup. A network addition is The Winning Hour (La Hora Ganadora), a one-hour block of interactive programming geared toward the entire family. Shows debuting through this block are the dance competition …

MIAMI: As part of its Upfront presentation, Discovery U.S. Hispanic has announced it’s expanding its adventure and automotive genres for Discovery en Español, while adding titles centered on beauty, home and cooking on the female-focused Discovery Familia. Discovery en Español is set to premiere the car series Cuban Chrome (Motores: …

ISTANBUL: ITV-Inter Medya has sold several Turkish titles into Latin America, including a multi-country pickup for Black Rose. That series is being broadcast on Chile’s Canal 13, on MundoFox for the U.S. Hispanic Market, and Albavision’s channels in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. It …

NEW YORK: TV Latina has unveiled a Spanish-language Preview site for the L.A. Screenings featuring a video interview with José Antonio Bastón, the president of television and content for Grupo Televisa, who discusses, among other topics, the elements that have led the company to become the media giant it is …

NEW YORK: Univision Communications has hired global financial exec Francisco (Frank) J. Lopez-Balboa as the company's new chief financial officer, effective immediately. In his new role, Lopez-Balboa will work out of New York under Randy Falco, the president and CEO of Univision Communications. Peter H. Lori, who had been serving …

NEW YORK: At its upcoming Upfront in New York, Univision Communications is set to highlight a multiplatform portfolio that the company says will allow marketers to better target young U.S. Hispanics. The new marketing strategy will center on “billennials,” or bilingual Millennials, via targeted programming, special events across all platforms …