PRESS RELEASE
December 21, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Tatiana Arizaga
(626) 792-6462
tarizaga@nhmc.org
NHMC Statement on Network Neutrality
Pasadena, CA.- Today the FCC enacted "network neutrality" rules, designed with...
NHMC is excited to announce its participation in the Google Policy Fellowship Program-- which supports students and organizations working on policy issues fundamental to the future of the Internet and its users.
Applications for 2011 fellowship...
PRESS RELEASE
December 7, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Tatiana Arizaga
(951) 256-6825
tarizaga@nhmc.org
2010 Television Networks "Report Cards" Reflect a Striking Decline in Latino Diversity
National Latino Media Council...
Adds that FCC should not weigh in on applying regs to specialized services until more info collected
[SOURCE: Broadcasting & Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton] 10/13/10
The divide over network neutrality rules between coalitions of groups...
Look What's Missing from Daytime TV
[SOURCE: AOL News, AUTHOR: Galina Espinoza] 9/17/10
Recent news from the world of daytime television has heralded some dramatic changes: the decline of soap operas. The remaking of talk shows from...
This week NHMC joined Latinos for Internet Freedom, a collection of organizations dedicated to preserving an open and neutral internet. Latinos for Internet Freedom include:
* La Asamblea de Derechos Civiles
* CARECEN San Francisco
* Center...
[SOURCE: Cafe Media Magazine, AUTHOR: Benjamin Ortiz] 8/17/10
The buxom bombshell named Sabrina Solano stops her man Chuy drop-dead cold with impeccably arched eyebrows and a sizzling point-blank glare, as piercing as an actual bullet....
[SOURCE: Politics and Culture, AUTHOR: Chon Noriega] 8/10/10
What a difference a year makes! On June 3-6, 1999, nearly 300 Latino producers and supporting individuals and institutions met in San Francisco, California. It was the...
[SOURCE: Technology Marketing Corporation News, AUTHOR: George Bao] 7/19/10
America is suffering from a " digital divide" with many Americans either can not afford high speed Internet or without service, and government subsidies...
[SOURCE: San Diego City Beat, AUTHOR: Dave Maass] 7/28/10
One thing you can say about San Diego Union-Tribune editor Jeff Light is that he isn’t afraid to face his critics, whether that’s CityBeat, art patrons, or the...
[SOURCE: Latin American Herald Tribune, AUTHOR: Yasmin Rincon] 7/23/10
No longer just the bad guys, criminals or drug traffickers, "We're still not where we want to be, but we have changed the numbers and the realities, we have...
[SOURCE: San Diego City Beat, AUTHOR: Dave Maass] 7/12/10
This past Friday, San Diego’s cultural elite took San Diego Union-Tribune editor Jeff Light to task at a public discussion in La Jolla for laying off Robert Pincus, the paper...
We are now accepting applications for this program, which has successfully placed over a dozen writers in television shows.
[SOURCE: The Huffington Post] 7/9/10
by Alex Nogales
President & CEO, NHMC
When Comcast announced last fall that it planned to merge with NBC Universal, few were more skeptical of the deal than I was.
As I stated in my testimony...
CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund
Request for Proposals
Weekly, Primetime Television Series
Objective
This RFP, the first from the Diversity and Innovation Fund, is designed to solicit proposals to provide the NPS with a new, weekly,...
Daily Variety
June 8, 2010
The conventional wisdom in Washington continues to be that Comcast's combination with NBC Universal will eventually get the greenlight, so the hearing before five members of the House Judiciary Committee was less about...
NHMC Testifies on Proposed Comcast and NBCU Merger at the Judiciary Committee Hearing
Los Angeles, CA - On June 7, 2010 NHMC President and CEO, Alex Nogales, testified on the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC Universal at a hearing before the U.S....
May 11, 2010
America's Voice and America's Voice Education Fund wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Baseball- American League Baseball, Bud Selig, asking that he denounces the law by cancelling the 2011 Major League Baseball's All Star Game in...
In the wake of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s decision to sign SB 1070, state legislation that essentially
sanctions racial profiling as accepted police practice, the undersigned organizations join a growing
number of groups across the country...
Broadcasting & Cable
May 7, 2010
Legislators Call For Multiple Comcast/NBCU Hearings
Members want full review on diversity, labor and community relations
Some four dozen legislators led by Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) have called on the FCC to hold...
The Wrap
May 6, 2010
Black, Hispanic Congressmen Question Comcast/NBCU Diversity
Forty-six congressmen -- many from the Congressional Black Caucus and from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus – Thursday night called on the Federal Communications...
32 Organizations Urge the FCC to Address
Hate Speech in Media
Groups ask the Commission to act now!
Washington, D.C. - Today (May 7, 2010), the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) filed comments in the FCC's proceeding on the Future...
Latin Heat Online
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) celebrated its 13th Annual Impact Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on a beautiful Friday night. ...
World News
March 12, 2010
U.S. census is immigration debate's newest flashpoint - Worldnews.com
Alex Nogales discusses Immigration Reform updates as well as giving information on the ... Alex Nogales of the National Hispanic Media Coalition...
For years certain groups have been dehumanized and misrepresented on mainstream media. Now YOU can do something about it!
In January of 2009, the National Hispanic Media Coalition filed a petition for inquiry at the Federal...
FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News and More!
March 9, 2010
A coalition of public interest organizations - including the Center for Media Justice, Center for Rural Strategies, Free Press, Media Access...
Playing Iraq vet, helicopter pilot and sometime EMT Marisa Benez on NBC’s Trauma, which returns to Monday nights on Mar. 8, Aimee Garcia never gets to glam it up in designer dresses, diamonds, dramatic makeup, or daring hairdos. No...
The Wall Street Journal-3/5/2010
The Telenovela Goes Narco
The drug lords of Latin America cross the border, from Telemundo to 'Breaking Bad'
By AMY CHOZICK
Blinded by a world of easy money, Catalina, a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl,...
On top of that were comedy albums that friends and I bought, shared, swapped. A terrific mix of old and new. I loved Bob Newhart's button-down mind, both Bill Cosby's high-concept and well-observed family stuff, Allan Sherman, Nichols and May,...
Following on NALIP's tradition of honoring media advocates including Lilian Jimenez in 2001, Ricardo Montalban in 2002, Richie Perez in 2004, Raul Yzaguirre in 2005, Helen Hernandez in 2006, Edward James Olmos in 2007, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez in...
Regarded as one of the entertainment industry’s leading spokespersons for Hispanic media advocacy, Alex Nogales has dedicated his career to creating employment opportunities for American Latinos in front of and behind the camera in...
Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and actor Tony Plana, currently on Ugly Betty, talk about how the networks are doing in their efforts to increase Latino involvement in their productions.
Approximately 1,000 leaders and activists attended the 4th NationalLatino Congreso (NLC) in El Paso at the Camino Real during Jan 29-31. The NLC hosted delegations from over 100 organizations and elected officials for the three day convention on...
