TELEFUTURA

'TeleFutura' is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.

Contents

Overview

Primetime Schedule

Morning Telenovelas

Primetime Telenovela

Morning Weedends Telenovelas

Overview

The network started on January 14, 2002, a month behind Telemundo's launch of its cable TV network, the bilingual mun2, with programs such as the 3 hour gossip/Entertainment show ''Escándalo TV'' which was designed to compete with similar offerings like ''Cotorreando'' from NBC Universal's Telemundo. Commercials for Telefutura often air on the Univision network.
Most of the stations that carry TeleFutura once aired the Home Shopping Network. Univision bought the stations from Barry Diller's USA Broadcasting late in 2001.
TeleFutura's programming consists of Venezuelan telenovelas from Coral Productions, RCTV, and game shows from Televisa and Venevision. The network also airs movies (mainly recent American releases dubbed into Spanish), boxing, ''Futbol Liga Mexicana'' broadcasts, news (including Contacto deportivo) and game shows, including their first game show "Que Dice La Gente?" (literally, ''What are people saying?'') based on the popular "Family Feud",it should be noted that this telefutura produced Miami based game show is based on the defunct Televisa TV game show 100 Mexicanos Dijeron, and like that show is also hosted by Marco Antonio Regil.
In late 2005, TeleFutura started airing En Vivo y Directo, a 7pm newscast, opposite the taped 4pm news on Galavisión). But the network eventually cancelled "En Vivo y Directo" due to low ratings after only a few weeks and have replaced the newscast with movies.
TeleFutura is also a part of the Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, as Univision owns exclusive US Spanish-language rights. For 2006 it carried eight live games, all in the last days of group play when games are played simultaneously, like ESPN2 did with ESPN for English-language coverage. It also had game replays and recap shows. In addition, and in conjunction, Telefutura also airs an exclusive Major League Soccer game of the week on Sunday afternoon/evening.
In late June 2006, Univision was sold to an investment group including entertainment industry veteran Haim Saban for $13 billion, there are reports on media message boards that Telefutura is being phased out and several key on air talents are being shifted to Univision and Galavision channels. However these rumors have not been verified, nor will the shutdown of TeleFutura happen anytime soon: According to Nielsen Media Research, in February 2007 TeleFutura made significant gains in viewership at the expense of Telemundo, actually taking over second place among Spanish-language networks in the Adults 18-34, Men 18-34 and Men 18-49 demos. [1]

Primetime Schedule

Movies/Movies shows are in 'red'; Reality/Game Shows are in 'green'; Primetime Series are in 'blue'; News are in 'purple'.

	7:00 PM	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
Sunday	''Cine De las Estrellas''				''Cine De Las Estrellas''
Monday	''Que Dice La Gente?''		''Cine De Las Estrellas''				''Asi es la Vida''
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday	''Cine De Las Estrellas''				''Cine De Las Estrellas''

Morning Telenovelas

'Eastern / Pacific'	'Central / Mountain'	'Title (English Translation)'	'Distributor(s) (Country, Year)'	'Cast'	'First Premiered'	'Projected / Scheduled Finale'
7:00 AM	6:00 AM	Amigas y rivales (Friends And Rivals)	Televisa (Mexico, 2001)	Michelle Vieth Angélica Vale Adamari López Ludwika Paleta	August 2007	June 2008
8:00 AM	7:00 AM	Lazos De Amor (Bonds Of Love)	Televisa (Mexico, 1995)	Lucero Luis Jose Santander Juan Manuel Bernal Orlando Miguel	May 2007	October 2007
10:00 AM	9:00 AM	Amar Otra Vez (Loving Again)	Televisa (Mexico, 2003)	Iran Castillo Valentino Lanus Vanessa Guzman Rafael Amaya	May 2007	December 2007

Primetime Telenovela

'Eastern / Pacific'	'Central / Mountain'	'Title (English Translation)'	'Distributor(s) (Country, Year)'	'Cast'	'First Premiered'	'Projected / Scheduled Finale'
4:00 PM	3:00 PM	El Manantial (The Spring)	Televisa (Mexico, 2001)	Adela Noriega Mauricio Islas Karyme Lozano Daniela Romo	August 2007	December 2007

Morning Weedends Telenovelas

'Eastern / Pacific'	'Central / Mountain'	'Title (English Translation)'	'Distributor(s) (Country, Year)'	'Cast'	'First Premiered'	'Projected / Scheduled Finale'
6:00 AM	5:00 AM	Carita De Angel (Little Face Of Angel)	Televisa (Mexico, 2000)	Daniela Aedo Lisette Morelos Miguel De Leon Ana Patricia Rojo	March 2006	2008
7:00 AM	6:00 AM	Azul (Blue)	Televisa (Mexico, 1996)	Kate Del Castillo Armando Araiza Alma Muriel Patricia Reyes Spindola	January 2007	2007