TelevisaUnivision CEO Daniel Alegre blasts Google for dropping Univision from YouTube TV, calling the transfer ‘tone-deaf’ and urging the tech big to revive entry and cease discriminating towards viewers on ‘Mornings with Maria.’
TelevisaUnivision CEO Daniel Alegre accused Google on Monday of being “tone-deaf” for dropping Univision from YouTube TV and urged the tech big to revive its entry.
Viewers who watch YouTube TV’s important bundle is not going to have entry to Univision and can be required to pay a further $14.99 per thirty days on high of the $82.99 for the service, a transfer Alegre coined a “Hispanic tax.”
FOX Enterprise reached out to YouTube for remark.
Alegre issued a marketing campaign final month warning concerning the risks of limiting data for Hispanics, and penned an open letter entitled “Do the Right Thing Google.” Univision was dropped from YouTube TV a couple of week in the past, after the events didn’t attain a deal on a brand new contract.
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Viewers who watch YouTube TV’s important bundle is not going to have entry to Univision. (Mario Tama / Getty Photos)
When requested concerning the purpose behind the transfer, Alegre stated the corporate was informed that “the usage wasn’t there.” Nevertheless, Alegre disputed this, saying tech corporations “can actually twist the data to show whatever way they want. What usage is or what usage is not.”
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Alegre stated 9% of YouTube TV subscribers are Spanish audio system, they usually flip to Univision for his or her content material. He additionally stated Hispanics are captivated with soccer and three-quarters of all prime-time soccer broadcasts air on Univision.
The contract expired on Sept. 30, 2025. (Smith Assortment/Gado / Getty Photos)
Univision reaches extra Hispanics within the U.S. than another tv community.
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President Donald Trump weighed in over the weekend on Reality Social, saying he hopes the “great and very popular Hispanic Network, can get BACK onto the very amazing Google/YouTube.”
President Donald Trump weighed in on the dispute over the weekend. (Yuri Gripas / Reuters Photographs)
“It has been taken out of their package, which is VERY BAD for Republicans in the upcoming Midterms. They were so good to me with their highest rated ever political Special, and I set a Republican Record in Hispanic voting. Google, for the purpose of FAIRNESS, please let Univision back,” Trump wrote.
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YouTube beforehand pushed again on the allegations, telling FOX Enterprise final month that TelevisaUnivision’s calls for aren’t supported by the community’s efficiency on YouTube TV over the past 4 years.
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“While we value our partnership with them, our carriage renewal decisions are based on viewer consumption and pricing, and any suggestion to the contrary is false,” the corporate stated.
