“EL PÉNDULO” – A NEW PODCAST FROM NOTICIAS TELEMUNDO AND RADIO AMBULANTE STUDIOS FOCUSED ON LATINO VOTERS IN THE BATTLEGROUND STATES
Hosted by Noticias Telemundo Anchor Julio Vaqueiro, the Limited Series Podcast Takes a Deeper Look at the Issues that Motivate Latino Voters in Key Swing States
The First Episode of the Six-Part Series Launches Today in Spanish With New Episodes to be Released Every Thursday Until Election Day
The Series is Available on All Podcast Platforms Including iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Spotify
MIAMI/NEW YORK – October 3, 2024 – Noticias Telemundo and Radio Ambulante Studios, the pioneering Spanish-language podcast company, today announced the premiere of a new limited series podcast, “El péndulo.” Hosted by Noticias Telemundo’s Julio Vaqueiro, the six-episode series explores the issues motivating Latino voters in key battleground states who may cast the deciding votes in the presidential election.
The Spanish-language series offers a nuanced look at Latino voters, the second largest group of voting-age Americans. Overall, an estimated 36.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in November. As Election Day approaches, the path to the White House is widely expected to go through hotly contested swing states – many of which have seen an increase in Latino voters since the 2020 election.
With original reporting from the award-winning teams of journalists at Radio Ambulante Studios and Noticias Telemundo, the series looks at the politically diverse Latino electorates in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida. Through interviews and on-the-ground reporting, the series captures the contrasting voices of Latino voters and the issues they care about most.
“The evolution of Latino voters is a critically important story in this year’s elections,” said Gemma García, Executive Vice President of News at Telemundo. “This collaboration between Noticias Telemundo and Radio Ambulante Studios goes beyond the polling numbers and data points to hear directly from Latino voters.”
“Our aim is to understand the issues that are top of mind for Latinos, a diverse and often misunderstood community,” said Daniel Alarcon, Executive Producer at Radio Ambulante Studios.
Available today, the first episode of “El péndulo” – “The Pendulum” in English – looks at Pennsylvania, where Latinos are the fastest-growing demographic group and make up an emerging majority of residents in a stretch of small and mid-sized cities in northeastern Pennsylvania known as the “Latino Belt.” An estimated 615,000 Latinos are eligible to vote in Pennsylvania this year, according to the Pew Research Center. Four years ago, the state’s winner in the presidential election was determined by 80,000 votes. The episode examines Latino voter views in Hazleton, home to a large Dominican-American community.
Upcoming episodes will be released every Thursday through Election Day, with a final post-election episode. The serie’s Executive Producer is Alana Casanova-Burgess, an award-winning journalist and host of the bilingual podcast “La Brega.”
“El péndulo” is available on podcast platforms including iHeart, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Spotify. It can also be listened to on Radio Ambulante Studio’s podcast series feed Central and through feed drops on the podcast shows Radio Ambulante and El hilo. Video versions of the podcast will be available on Noticias Telemundo’s YouTube channel and NoticiasTelemundo.com. The podcast series will also be available through in-person “Listening Clubs” events organized by Radio Ambulante Studios in Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and New York.
About Radio Ambulante Studios
Radio Ambulante Studios is a pioneering Spanish-language podcast production company that tells the stories of Latin America and Latino communities around the world. Founded in 2011, its mission is to achieve a greater understanding of these communities through well-told, rigorously reported, and expertly produced audio journalism, offering the audience a nuanced portrait of a complex and vital region. Week after week, with the podcasts Radio Ambulante and El hilo, as well as its series feed Central, the goal is to inform, delight, unsettle, and activate listeners with stories that are enlightening and entertaining. Radio Ambulante Studios’ podcasts are distributed by iHeart Media on its My Cultura network.
Radio Ambulante Studios has been recognized with dozens of awards, including the Ondas Prize for its trajectory and impact on podcasting and the Gabo Award for innovation, two of the most prestigious prizes in the Spanish language. With over 60 million downloads across its shows and a catalog of more than 500 episodes, Radio Ambulante Studios has become a leader in podcast production, audio storytelling, and community-building around the world.
About NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises:
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises leads the media industry in the production and distribution of Spanish-language content for U.S. Hispanics and audiences around the world. The company serves U.S. Hispanics through its national broadcast network, the cable network Universo, and digital platforms including the Telemundo app, a suite of FAST channels, and streaming services, such as Peacock, among others. The Telemundo Network offers Spanish-language entertainment, news, and sports content reaching 95% of U.S. Hispanic TV households in 210 markets through 30 owned stations and 91 affiliate stations. Telemundo also owns an independent station serving Puerto Rico. Anchored on Telemundo Studios, the network is the #1 producer of scripted Spanish-language content in the U.S., and the only network to produce original content specifically for US Hispanic audiences. Offering over 600 hours of reality TV shows a year, Telemundo is considered the undisputed Home of Reality TV in Hispanic media. The network is also the exclusive Spanish-language home of the world’s two most popular sporting events, the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games. NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises is a division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
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Noticias Telemundo
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Noticias Telemundo
Camilo Jiménez Santofimio
Radio Ambulante Studios
