María Elena Salinas to receive 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television

María Elena Salinas, the network news co-anchor for Univision’s Noticiero Univisión and co-host of news magazine program Aquí y Ahora, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2013 Award for Achievement in Hispanic Television. The award is presented by the publishers and editors of television industry publications Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News. Salinas will accept this honor in person during a Luncheon Ceremony at the 11th Annual Hispanic Television Summit at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel on Wednesday October 2, 2013.Each year, one individual receives this award in recognition of his or her contribution to developing television for Hispanic audiences. Salinas joins a unique group of past recipients that already includes her co-host of Noticiero Univisión, Jorge Ramos. Other prior recipients include popular on-air celebrities Don Francisco, Andrés Cantor, Cristina Saralegui, María Celeste Arrarás and José Díaz Balart, as well as advertising and marketing executives Mónica Gadsby and Edgar Sandoval and celebrity-athlete-entrepreneur Óscar De La Hoya. “The theme for this year’s Summit is Exploring the Exploding Hispanic Television Business,” said Louis Hillelson, VP and Group Publisher for Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News. “It seemed appropriate then to award María Elena Salinas who speaks with the exploding Hispanic audience every day and has earned their trust to provide news about their local U.S. community as well as from their homeland.”