Friday, March 10, 2006

Latin American Television

We recently studied art and pop culture of Latin Americans in class. So, this article I found in the NY Times is very relevant to that topic and us. It talks about the future of television networks in America who cater to the Latino population. While the giant at the moment is Univision, they target mostly Mexican immigrants. The trend however, of Latinos is that there are more and more second generation Latinos then there are new immigrants. So, there are talks of incorporating more shows staged in the US and even some shows in English to appeal to these second generation Latinos. This trend is similar with Latin America’s miscegenation, in that the second generation Latinos are being incorporated into the pop culture of the US. Here is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/business/media/10visi.html?pagewanted=1&incamp=article_popular

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