InterMedia Partners VII, L.P. and Azteca Acquisition Corp. announced Thursday the signing of a definitive agreement under which InterMedia will merge Cine Latino, Inc. and InterMedia Español Holdings, LLC — which includes WAPA America and WAPA TV — with Azteca Acquisition Corporation in a transaction valued at approximately $400 million.
Less than five weeks after being the target of an unprecedented boycott from a segment of Puerto Rico residents and advertisers, Antulio “Kobbo” Santarrosa the man behind the “La Comay” gossip puppet, allegedly walked off the show and the WAPA (Ch. 4) station late Tuesday.
One of the most persistent problems of the modern television age — loud commercials — are about to become a thing of the past with the recent passage of the 2010 Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation Act.
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