Before the end of the 2011 Cuban journalist Cristina Saralegui will create and produce a variety show that will air on weekends on Telemundo.
The announcement was made known last night in New York during the Upfront, the annual event in which television advertisers to present updates to its programming for the fall season.
"I have admired and respected Craig for many years. She embodies the American dream and inspires and gives strength to Hispanics throughout the United States. Their arrival in Singapore is truly a dream come true," said Don Browne , president of Telemundo.
With his arrival in the chain, Saralegui not only return to the environment that became famous for more than two decades. On Monday it was announced Channel Cristina , satellite radio station that will air through SIRIUX XM will contact more than 21 million subscribers in the U.S. and Puerto Rico in the fall and strengthen influence of the journalist after his departure from Univision in late 2010.
"I am very happy to continue the dialogue with my audience that began more than 21 years with Cristina's show from my new home Telemundo. I will work very hard for this new program a great success, "said Saralegui via e-mail to The Brownsville Herald. "My people, I hope you continue. I love you ".
Inter alia, Telemundo announced its block of original shows including soap operas film Love, Sky Falls , physical or chemical and A maid in Manhattan. Just as MIA World, dedicated to showing the lifestyle and aspirations of viewers from a city in the country.
And for sports fans, Telemundo airs the Olympics in 2012.
Moreover, the anticipated chain The release also App Telemundo Novelas, a digital implementation of telenovelas in English and English aimed at the phones and other mobile devices. The
Billboard Regional Mexican Music Awards and your world contained in special issues of the national chain. Saralegui
led and produced El Show de Cristina for 21 years at Univision until November 10, 2010, when he fired the public after the cancellation of his contract, despite high levels of viewership of his program. In August of that year she was then reported the cancellation of your space and you lead special programs offered on specific dates, which ultimately did not materialize.
"I asked, 'How far do you want to take the program as we have done 21 years? What do you think if you leave now that he's with high ratings ?''', Saralegui told in an exclusive interview El Nuevo Herald published the 1st. November 2010. By that time it was rumored that the reasons for the cancellation of the program was the age of Saralegui, who was then 62 years.
"may not only but also by old Boconó, especially for having the creative control all of my program,''suggested in that interview Saralegui, who has before leaving screens promoting the Casa Cristina collection, a line of furnishings for bed and bath created in 2004 with her husband and manager, Marcos Avila, inspired by the Saralegui family heritage. Born in Havana, Saralegui fled Cuba at the age of 11 years, in 1960. He began his career in the magazine Vanity , where he wrote before graduating from journalism at the University of Miami. Over time the magazine went Cosmopolitan, and then created Cristina, his own publication, which closed in 2005. To this date, and was experienced by Hispanic television The Cristina Show, the program for which he won 12 Emmy Awards and that became one of one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, "according to Time magazine .
Other awards received in his long career, Home Furnishings News magazine (HFN) Saralegui ranked in the group of "50 Most Influential People in Design and Home Furnishings." Without a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood and its inclusion in the Hall of Fame of Broadcasting & Cable, where he joined the television legends as Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters and Johnny Carson.
Social causes have not been outside the journalist. She and her husband Marcos Avila Up Life created in 1996, a private foundation dedicated to AIDS awareness and education among Hispanics, and other causes related to the evil that affects the lives of thousands of Hispanics throughout the world . In recognition of his efforts to educate their viewers about the problems of gays and lesbians, in September 2005 was awarded the Value Saralegui by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) . In addition, belongs to the Board of the Museum of Television and Radio, and is a member National Council of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (Amfar, National Council of the American Foundation for AIDS Research).
Source: El Nuevo Herald
