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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 11:30 AM Apr 2015

'Sábado Gigante' to end run after 53 years on the air

Source: Los Angeles Times

The days of oddball sketches, leggy models and impressing El Chacal are about to bid adios: Long-running Spanish-language TV staple "Sábado Gigante" will end its run after 53 years on the air.

Univision is turning out the lights on its top-rated variety show.

... "Sábado Gigante," which means "Giant Saturday," is Univision’s longest-running program. With more than five decades under its belt, it is the longest-running variety show in TV history — and elicits the feel of a bygone era.

The show airs in more than 40 countries and boasts tens of millions of weekly viewers, including about 2 million in the United States, most of them in Miami, New York and Los Angeles. That’s a feat, in part, because the show is broadcast on a traditionally difficult night in American television.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-spanish-tv-staple-sabado-gigante-to-end-its-run-after-53-years-on-the-air-20150416-story.html

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'Sábado Gigante' to end run after 53 years on the air (Original Post) Newsjock Apr 2015 OP
Awww...I haz a sad!! Coventina Apr 2015 #1
My brother... was actually on air there recently. Xyzse Apr 2015 #2
?Porque? KamaAina Apr 2015 #3
The main guy has hosted it for 40 years lovemydog Apr 2015 #5
Well, he replaced someone 13 years in KamaAina Apr 2015 #7
ikr - what a slacker lovemydog Apr 2015 #8
Holy frijoles lovemydog Apr 2015 #4
Everyone on that show always looks so happy! djean111 Apr 2015 #6
No more Esteban Colberto? Initech Apr 2015 #9
Oh no! Although I don't speak Spanish - LiberalElite Apr 2015 #10

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
2. My brother... was actually on air there recently.
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 02:07 PM
Apr 2015

He's going to be sad.

We're Asian, so it was funny to see him clapping, looking uncomfortable when the camera panned on him a few times.

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)
5. The main guy has hosted it for 40 years
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 08:18 PM
Apr 2015

and Univision wanted to send him off with a graceful retirement. Pretty cool they're honoring him. They'll probably start a new variety show with a new name.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
10. Oh no! Although I don't speak Spanish -
Fri Apr 17, 2015, 09:19 PM
Apr 2015

I USED to watch this - haven't in years. Completely forgot about it somewhere along the way. BUT I did like "Don Francisco" who is actually of German-Jewish heritage. His parents immigrated to Chile to escape the Nazis.

P.S.: I just looked it up - some of Sabado Gigante is on YouTube.

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