Noticias Telemundo (TV program)

Noticias Telemundo (Spanish for 'Telemundo News'; Spanish pronunciation: [noˈti.sjas te.leˈmun.do]) is the flagship daily evening television news program of Noticias Telemundo, the news division of the American Spanish language broadcast television network Telemundo. The nightly early-evening newscast focusing on international news and stories of relevance to the network's main target demographic of Hispanic and Latino Americans. The program is produced out of the news division's facilities in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida.

The program has been anchored at various times by a number of other presenters since its debut in 1986. It also has used various titles under previous production outsourcing arrangements, including Noticiero Telemundo-HBC from 1986 to 1988, Noticiero Telemundo CNN from 1988 to 1996 and CBS Telenoticias from 1996 to 1999. It is the second-most watched Spanish language network newscast in the United States, trailing behind Noticiero Univision in the ratings.

Noticias Telemundo's weekday broadcasts are currently anchored by Julio Vaqueiro who has been the program's main anchor since 2021, when Jose Diaz-Balart moved to MSNBC, and will contribute to all NBC News platforms including Telemundo. The program's late weeknight editions, "Noticias Telemundo: En La Noche" (Spanish for 'Telemundo News: At the Night') is currently anchor by Arantxa Loizaga (appointed from network's morning show Hoy Día in 2022), and before Julio Vaqueiro. It was a first time of late night news edition since May 2020, and it was created for COVID-19 pandemic special edition since March. It's the rival of "Noticiero Univisión: Edición Nocturna". It was change before "Noticias Telemundo: Edición Especial, and Noticias Telemundo con Julio Vaqueiro". The program's weekend editions, Noticias Telemundo: Fin de Semana (Spanish for 'Telemundo News: Weekend'), is currently anchored by Johana Suarez (who joined the program in 2022, came from KUVN-TV Univision 23 Dallas affiliate).

Telemundo began airing a nightly newscast in 1987, shortly after the network originally known as NetSpan adopted its current name, when the network debuted Noticiero Telemundo-HBC. The program was produced through an outsourcing agreement with the Miami-based Hispanic-American Broadcasting Corporation, which based the half-hour newscast from a converted warehouse in Miami.

Many of the program's anchors and correspondents previously worked for the Spanish International Network (which became Univision, when the network sold majority ownership to Hallmark Cards that year), before quitting from the Noticias SIN division when staff protested the appointment of former Televisa anchor Jacobo Zabludovsky as director of SIN's news division by network president Emilio Azcárraga Milmo – owner of Univision's minority partner Televisa – due to concerns over the extent of editorial autonomy and potential censorship in its journalistic practices. The newscast was anchored by Lana Montalban, who would later become an evening anchor at Telemundo's New York City owned-and-operated station WNJU for four years after Noticiero Telemundo-HBC's cancellation.

On March 24, 1988, Telemundo announced that it would end its agreement with Hispanic-American Broadcasting and enter into a news sharing partnership with CNN to produce early and late evening national newscasts, an hour-long weekend news review program, Resumen Semanal Telemundo-CNN, and news briefs that aired five times per day for Telemundo. CNN assumed production responsibilities for the network's newscasts, now titled Noticiero Telemundo CNN ("Telemundo CNN News"), on May 31 of that year, with production of the newscasts becoming based at the cable news channel's headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta.

The program was originally co-anchored by Jorge Gestoso and Maria Elvira Salazar. In 1992, Salazar left the program to become a reporter for Noticiero Univision, the news division of rival Univision; she was replaced by Chilean native and former Miss Universe Cecilia Bolocco. In 1996, the program switched to a solo anchor format, with Patricia Janiot as its presenter.

In 1996, following the sale of Telenoticias – a Latin American cable news channel created in 1994 as a joint venture between Telemundo, Argentinean television network Artear, Spain broadcaster Antena 3 and Reuters – to CBS Cable due to low viewership and monetary losses on the venture, Telemundo entered into a content partnership with the channel to take over production of the broadcast network's early-evening and prime time newscasts. In September of that year, the newscasts were rebranded as Telenoticias, with Raul Peimbert anchoring the program. On August 26, 1999, Telenoticias anchor Guillermo Descalzi took over as co-anchor of the program.