Telemundo of Puerto Rico Studios, LLC is a division of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of
NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal Media, LLC is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate corporation owned by Comcast and headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.
NBCUniversal is primari ...
, a subsidiary of
Comcast
Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...
. It develops original programming in Spanish for station
WKAQ-TV
WKAQ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, airing programming from the Telemundo and NBC networks. It is Owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal. WKAQ-T ...
in
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
.
History
On June 21, 2007, Telemundo of Puerto Rico Studios was created to produce TV programming for viewing in Puerto Rico and internationally. On September 4, 2007, the first project began with a 35-episode season of ''
Decisiones
''Decisiones'' (, ''Decisions'') is a Telemundo-produced Spanish-language television program, television anthology of steamy melodramas about passion and sex in the modern world. The hour-long series features impassioned people thrust into amorous ...
''.
''Decisiones'' is a successful TV unitary show. Telemundo has produced more than 500 episodes in 3 countries:
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, U.S. (
Miami
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, Florida), and
Colombia
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. ''Decisiones'' began on the island, with support of the production team of ''Decisiones'' at Telemundo Network. The studios are located at the
Telemundo of Puerto Rico facilities in
Hato Rey
Hato Rey is a former barrio located in the northwest part of the dissolved municipality of Río Piedras. It now stretches over three barrios, of the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico:
Urban landscape
Its name means "king's cattle farm" ( ...
,
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
, Puerto Rico.
On November 7, 2007 the production hosted a Gala Premier at the
Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A Ferré in San Juan. The event was attended by representatives from the government, press, clients, actors and the general public. The production showed clips from the first 9 episodes and the first show's first segment.
''Decisiones Puerto Rico'', as it was called for local distribution, began on Monday, November the 12, 2007, on Telemundo WKAQ-TV.
External links
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Telemundo
Television studios in the United States
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