UNIVISION-$10 Million to Elect Clinton. IS THIS is what Trump fears/ Why he is pushing for Trump TV?
In the world of billion$$ deals, I wonder if Haim Saban isn't one of the Bigger Threats to Trump.
Interesting Article!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-10-13/-10-million-says-hillary-wins
Haim Saban, the billionaire chairman of Univision Communications, America’s largest Spanish-language media company, flew to Jerusalem in his private jet on Sept. 29 to attend the funeral of his friend Shimon Peres, Israel’s former prime minister.
It was an event attended by numerous world leaders. Saban gave one of them a lift: former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
In Saban’s telling, it wasn’t a big deal. “I called and asked, ‘Are you going to go?’?” he says, recalling his conversation with Clinton. “He said, ‘Yeah, I’m going.’ I said, ‘I’m going, too. Do you need a ride?’?” So Saban picked up Clinton and his entourage at a small airport in Teterboro, N.J.
After the funeral, Saban would have been happy to fly Clinton home, but his passenger got a better offer. President Barack Obama invited Clinton to ride back on Air Force One, which idled on the same tarmac as Saban’s jet. Saban channels Clinton looking back and forth between the two planes: “It was like, ‘Air Force One, Saban Air, Air Force One, Saban Air? OK, I’ll go with Air Force One!’?” Saban says he understood.
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Saban, who’s worth $3.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has two targets at the moment. He wants to take Univision public. He and a group of private equity investors bought the network for $12.3 billion in 2007, when it was a solely Spanish-language operation, and have transformed it into a bilingual platform aimed increasingly at young, multiethnic viewers.
His other goal is to elect Hillary Clinton president. It’s something that Saban, a longtime defender of Israel whom the Jerusalem Post recently named the world’s No.?1 “most influential Jew,” has been pushing since 2004. Last summer he told Bloomberg TV that he would give “as much as needed” to ensure her victory, and so far this election cycle he and his wife have donated $10 million to Clinton’s super PAC, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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...Univision has taken an adversarial stance.
Nine days after Trump’s comments, the network canceled its plans to broadcast his Miss USA pageant. Trump filed a $500 million breach of contract lawsuit, alleging Saban was interfering to benefit Clinton. (The suit was settled confidentially.)
The next month, Trump had Jorge Ramos, Univision’s leading news anchor, tossed out of a news conference in Iowa when Ramos questioned his immigration policies and ignored Trump’s command to “sit down” and “go back to Univision.”
If many English-speaking Americans had until that point been only vaguely aware of Univision, they were now paying attention.
Since then, Univision has co-hosted a Democratic primary debate, sought to register 3 million Latino voters, and promoted a mid-October concert along the U.S.-Mexican border called “RiseUp As One.”
The network’s growing influence comes as Saban waits for the right moment to do the initial public offering—a process that has dragged on longer than expected and might play out more favorably under President-elect Clinton than under Trump. Saban says he has nothing to do with Univision’s news coverage, but some Republicans find this hard to believe.
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I have also recently read that UNIVISION intends to venture into YOUTUBE..
At the same time Silicon Valley mogul Pete Thiel donates a million+ to Trump and is making moves to support him wholeheartedly..bigotry,sexism, and all.
Silicon Valley has expressed their angst with Thiel for supporting Trump the bigot, however even Zuckerburg claims that it is Theil's right, saying the Valley doesn't wholly support one or the other candidate.
Request are for Theil to be booted off the FB board & out of The Valley completely for supporting Trump.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/technology/how-silicon-valley-treats-a-trump-backer-peter-thiel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/
And knowing all this..enter Meg Whitman.
Media vying for position??
Univision is huge and growing in Latino demographics.
This is the politics we don't see on TV News
Great Read..more at link
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