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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBroadcast networks opt out of Obama immigration speech -- except for Univision~ & Telemundo!
Eight years ago, President George W. Bush delivered a prime time address on immigration, carried by all the big broadcast networks.On Thursday, President Barack Obama will do the same thing, but three of the broadcasters, ABC, NBC, and CBS have signaled that they won't be carrying it.
CNN will carry the 8 p.m. address, of course, and so will all the other cable news channels. PBS will, as well. And perhaps most importantly for the White House, the dominant Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, Univision, will be translating it and airing it live.
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The White House declined to comment on the speech scheduling process, but the administration may have honed in on Thursday night because of Univision's planned telecast of the Latin Grammys.
The live telecast attracts an unusually high number of viewers to Univision, just like the English-language Grammys do, and Univision agreed to set aside about ten minutes for Obama's address.
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To that point, the Obama White House on Wednesday previewed Thursday's address in a minute-long Facebook video post, something the Bush White House couldn't have done in 2006.
"Hi everybody," the president said on camera while leaning on his Oval Office desk. "Tomorrow night, I'm going to be announcing, here from the White House, some steps that I can take to fix our broken immigration system."
The video was viewed 1.5 million times on Facebook in its first four hours. And it was surely seen many more times through television rebroadcasts of the video.
"Tune in tomorrow," the presidential Facebook post concluded, with a link to the White House's own live video stream of the address.
MOre..
http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/19/media/networks-and-obama-speech/
Lots of interesting stuff at the link.. I just got some of the highlights.. But, the speech will be on Telemundo and Univision!
alp227
(32,034 posts)I was hoping CBS could pre-empt the Raiders (0-10 as I speak) for Obama's speech dammit! (The Raiders/Chiefs NFL Network Thursday game is shown on CBS stations in the Raiders and Chiefs areas while other CBS stations have regularly scheduled programming.)
Cha
(297,323 posts)changed!
But, now Univision and Telemundo is airing it instead..
For the networks commercial revenue.. I guess it's too much to give up 15 minutes of the big bang.
minivan2
(214 posts)So CBS and NBC can go screw themselves.
lob1
(3,820 posts)Rachel Maddow said she and Chris Hayes will co-host the coverage.
Cha
(297,323 posts)translating.
lob1
(3,820 posts)I don't understand why the networks aren't covering it. This will be big news. I guess they're not even pretending to do real news anymore.
Cha
(297,323 posts)Music Awards. They think it's worth it!
As the article says.. Eight years ago the broadcast network aired bush's speech on Immigration.. but things have changed now.
Cha
(297,323 posts)Music Awards!
malaise
(269,063 posts)They too like cheap labor and issues to divide and rule.
Fugg 'em!
Cha
(297,323 posts)but Univision will break into the Latin Music Awards!
Cha
(297,323 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)calimary
(81,323 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)still_one
(92,233 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)it together....very important to many here in Connecticut.
Cha
(297,323 posts)Immigration Reform Family Parties!
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)spinbaby
(15,090 posts)Channel 4 Pittsburgh.
Cha
(297,323 posts)beveeheart
(1,369 posts)will broadcast speech.