Telemundo advisory (Image provided by Telemundo)
Update: Several East Coast stations defied their networks, carrying the Presidents 15-minute speech live and preempting primetime shows. NBCs WNBC and Foxs WNYW in New York, as well as stations in Washington, D.C., Boston and Atlanta opted to dump their network feeds in favor of POTUS.
While the major commercial networks will not interrupt primetime programming to carry President Obamas speech on immigration tonight (its a Thursday night, in sweeps, so they wont preempt their biggest shows), Univision and Telemundo are committing to the story live and through the weekend. It will also be available live on cable news networks and PBS. In the Mountain Time Zone, it falls to the local stations whether or not to carry the speech.
Locally, CBS4, 7News Fox31 and 9News will carry the speech at 6 p.m.
Univision News intends to bring audiences every detail surrounding President Barack Obamas plans for issuing executive orders on immigration, starting at 4:30 p.m. locally, with anchor Jorge Ramos leading coverage live from the White House. Noticiero Telemundo will do the same, with anchors Jos Daz-Balart and Mara Celeste Arrars at the White House. The speech is scheduled for 6 p.m. locally.
On Univision, the address will preempt the 2014 Latin Grammy Awards, an annual special that reached 9.8 million viewers on the Univision Network last year.
On Sunday, the public affairs show, Al Punto (To the Point), hosted by Jorge Ramos, will be dedicated to the subject; a special edition of the award-winning newsmagazine Aqu y Ahora (Here and Now) will present a panel of experts to answer viewers questions on the subject, hosted by Teresa Rodrguez and Mara Elena Salinas.
The other networks have given up any obligation to cover Presidential announcements and the White House knows this. Why else announce the speech via Facebook?
Source: http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2014/11/20/univision-going-long-deep-immigration-coverage/20549/
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