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TeleFutura

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Type	Spanish Broadcast Television Network
Country	United States Headquarters: Miami, Florida
Availability	National
Founded	2002
Area	United States, Mexico and Puerto Rico
Owner	Univision Communications, Inc.Grupo Televisa
Launch date	January 14, 2002
Former names	None
Official website	www.telefutura.com

TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.

Overview[link]

TeleFutura is second-highest-rated Spanish-Language Network in prime time in the United States. The network began on January 14, 2002, a month behind Telemundo's launch of its cable TV network, the bilingual mun2, with programs such as the 3 hour gossip/Entertainment show Escándalo TV (formerly "Escándalo en el Medio Dia", but later changed due to a similarly named program airing in Mexico by Televisa S.A.) which was designed to compete with similar offerings like Cotorreando from NBC Universal's Telemundo. Commercials for TeleFutura often air on the Univision network. Most of the stations that carry TeleFutura once aired the Home Shopping Network. Univision bought the stations from Barry Diller's USA Broadcasting in late 2001.

TeleFutura's programming consists of telenovelas from Coral Productions, Televisa, Venevision, RCTV, RCN and Rede Globo as well as movies often consisting of recent American releases dubbed in Spanish. Movie titles are announced before the start of the broadcast, using the "CinePlex" (daytime movie, usually weekends), "CineEscape" (late night movie), "Cine Especial" (movie specials), or "Cine de las Estrellas" (prime-time movie) branding. The network also airs the reality courtroom show Veredicto Final, Fútbol de la Liga Mexicana broadcasts, and sports news (including Contacto Deportivo).

In late 2005, TeleFutura began airing En Vivo y Directo, a 7 pm newscast, opposite the taped 4 pm news on Galavisión. But the network eventually cancelled "En Vivo y Directo" due to low ratings after only a few weeks and have replaced the newscast with movies.

The network also offers a children programming block called Toonturama to fulfill the E/I requirements. Curiously, this block airs on both Saturdays and Sundays, and includes mostly American and European series dubbed in Spanish, such as Flight Squad and Problem Child. An exception is Toad Patrol, which it needs to dub in English to fix speech. In the past, anime such as Lost Universe, Tenchi Universe, and Red Baron have also aired in the block.

TeleFutura is also a part of the Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, as Univisión owns exclusive US Spanish-language rights. For 2006, it carried eight live games, all in the last days of group play when games are played simultaneously, like ESPN2 did with ESPN for English-language coverage. It also had game replays and recap shows. In addition, and in conjunction, TeleFutura also airs an exclusive Major League Soccer game of the week on Sunday afternoon/evening.

In late June 2006, Univisión was sold to an investment group including entertainment industry veteran Haim Saban for $13 billion. There are reports on media message boards that TeleFutura is being phased out and several key on air talents are being shifted to Univisión and Galavisión channels. However these rumors have not been verified, nor will the shutdown of TeleFutura happen anytime soon; According to Nielsen Media Research, in February 2007 TeleFutura made significant gains in viewership at the expense of Telemundo, actually taking over second place among Spanish-language networks in the Adults 18-34, Men 18-34 and Men 18-49 demographics.^[1]

On January 2009 TeleFutura launched daily Gossip show "La Tijera" with Charitin Goyco, Liliana Rodriguez, Paul Bouche, Carolina Sandoval and Augusto Valverde.^[2] The cast was gradually modified and incorporated Tanya Charry, Raul Garcia, Anabelle Blum, and Rodolfo Jimenez, who all joined "La Venenosa" Sandoval on the show. The show was cancelled in October 2011.

On February 26, 2010 TeleFutura announced that it once again secured the #2 Spanish-language network position with a special broadcast of “Buscando La Doble de Selena: La Gran Final” (Search for Selena’s Double) attracting 1.9 million total viewers 2+, 1.0 million Adults 18-49, over half a million Adults 18-34 and 620,000 Persons 12-34, making it the highest-ranked entertainment special in the history of the network. On October 10, 2011, TeleFutura premiered a new daily Gossip show Tómbola, which was cancelled after January 17, 2012 due to low ratings and very high dislikes.^[3][4]

TeleFutura HD[link]

In 2010, TeleFutura along with sister network Univisión began airing programming in 1080i high definition with a 16:9 aspect ratio. They were the last major over-the-air networks in the United States to have made the switch. DirecTV added the West Coast feed of the network in HD nationally on April 28, 2010.^[5] Dish Network later added the West Coast feed on May 12, 2010.^[6] Escándalo TV is broadcasting in HD.

Programming[link]

See also[link]

	United States portal
	Film portal

• List of Telefutura affiliates

References[link]

External links[link]

• TeleFutura (Spanish)

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Laura Cecilia Bozzo Rotondo (born August 19, 1951) is a television talk show host, best known for hosting Spanish-language talk show Laura en América (Laura in America) that was broadcast in the United States on the Telemundo television network. Of Italian Peruvian descent,^[1] she has hosted other talk shows under her name, including Laura en América back in the 1990s to early 2000s.^[2] Her talk shows have been compared to the American English-language Jerry Springer Show due to the fights that regularly occur as well as the sensitive subject matter routinely discussed.^[2] In 2008, a scandal erupted when it was discovered by the Peruvian press, led by important figures such as Jaime Bayly, that some of the shows provided by Laura Bozzo were fake and therefore did not show the true society of Peru.^[3]

Biography[link]

She studied law in Lima, Peru, receiving degrees in law and political science there and teaching classes within such fields in various universities. In 1993, she became the regidora (alderman) of metropolitan Lima. In 1998, she organized the organization Solidaridad de Familia (Family Solidarity) as a charitable foundation to assist people from Peru and other Latin American nations with legal, medical, and psychological problems; which has been under much criticism for increasing suspicion of being funded by former president Alberto Fujimori.^[4]

As talk show host[link]

In February 1998, the American Spanish-language broadcast network Telemundo began broadcasting her show Laura en América on its affiliates.^[5] The show soon began to be shown all over Latin America.^[2] Similar in nature to the American Jerry Springer Show, it routinely featured guests usually having troubles within their lives, including infidelity. Usually, the show would expose evidence of wrongdoing by the suspect that the guest presents, leading to fighting between guests.^[6] The authenticity of the show has been questioned, given the unusually sensational subjects explored.^[7] By the end of the year, Bozzo moved to Miami, Florida.^[1]

2006, Bozzo's RAT contract with Telemundo expired after five years, so she moved her production to Televisa; production of Laura en America ended in July 2006.^[8] In October 2006, Bozzo appeared on the program ¿Dónde estás corazón? on the network Antena 3 from Spain, criticizing Alejandro Toledo for causing her arrest.^[9]

On July 11, 2006, just a few days before the one-year anniversary of her release from house arrest, Laura Bozzo was convicted of all the charges against her and was sentenced to four consecutive years in prison. Laura later informed a local television station, Canal 9, that she planned to use a newly enacted law in her favor and sue the Peruvian government.^[10]

In January 2007, Bozzo attempted to enter the Spanish TV market through Spain's Telecinco, but once some executives saw pilots of the program, a proposal for a new Bozzo show was canceled.^[11] On November 6, 2007, her new show Laura en acción debuted on Telemundo in the United States. However, in March 2008, lawyer Freddy Escobar started an investigation about the possible illegal use of minors in her program, being exposed on TV to present fake cases of family sex violence.^[12] A scandal involving an underage woman who appeared on Laura en acción caused the show to be canceled by Peruvian network América Televisión, in which the show originally aired.^[13][14] Telemundo stopped airing the series by the beginning of May 2008.^[15]

As talk show host in Mexico[link]

In June 2009, Laura Bozzo made her television reappearance after her last talk show, Laura en Acción was cancelled on April 2008. Bozzo relocated herself in Mexico and started working on many shows on Televisa, the largest Spanish-speaking television network in all of Latin America, but then she went to TV Azteca and hosted the talkshow Laura de todos (shortened from Laura de todos: sin miedo a la verdad), for two years and a half. Laura Bozzo's show aired on Azteca 13 at 17:00 hrs. CT in the country. The show was also televised in the United States, through Azteca America at 20:00 hrs. On September 20, 2010 Laura left the show after having differences with the executives of TV Azteca. Bozzo was replaced by the Mexican television host Rocío Sánchez Azuara with the return of the talk show Cosas de la vida. Laura Bozzo returned to Televisa.

She signed a contract for five years with Televisa to make a new show called Laura herself and Federico Wilkins were the producers of Laura. Wilkins was fired after making up that Laura's boyfriend Cristian Suárez^{[disambiguation needed ]} was cheating on her with Karina Alvarez Gabriel Vasquez Woodman took over the production. The talk show airs on Canal de las Estrellas network in Mexico. The show premiered on January 24, 2011, at 16:00 hrs the show airs for 1 hour and 30 minutes. (CT), the show also airs on Saturdays at 17 hrs. The show's premiere live in Mexico was very successful with 18.9 points in rating and 40.5 in share and on its second day the show reached 19.4 in rating beating its competition. On February 7, 2011, Laura started airing in the United States through Telefutura at 7/6c pm competing with Telemundo's Caso cerrado.^[16] Although the show was cancelled due to low ratings and other factors on April 2011,^[17] Telefutura is airing Laura again at 2pm/1pm central as of October 10, 2011.^[18]

References[link]