Point well taken--but considering that Trump could be considered part of the NBC family between "The Apprentice" and the Miss USA/Universe telecasts, it's pretty likely that Telemundo would pick up the pageants for either the mothership or NBC Universo.
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Of course, MIss USA will just move over to NBCU-owned Telemundo or the >> NBC Universo cable channel (formerly mun2, still bilingual English and >> Spanish), but the thought is there (and UNI may not have been getting good >> ratings from the telecast anyway). >> > > I had a bad reaction to this comment and I think it stems from your using > the verb "will" instead of "could." While, on the surface, Univision made a > unilateral move to distance themselves from Trump, it's reasonable to > assume there was an informal conversation between Latino groups and > Univision execs about organized backlash to airing the pageant: protests, > sponsor boycotts, etc. And Univision felt that dropping the pageant puts > them on the right side of things. The thing is, the NBCU Spanish channels > will be under the same pressure and unless the higher-ups at Comcast/NBC > order them to air the show and suffer the damage, they will come to the > same conclusion as Unvision. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
