Telemundo to host Republican primary debate

NBCU'S Telemundo is enjoying the advantages of the Republican Party's boycott of market leader Univision by hosting its first Primary Republican presidential debate at the begining of December. The primetime debate is going to be broadcast reside in The spanish language from Vegas with Telemundo news anchor Jose Diaz-Balart moderating. Debate will concentrate on key issues highly relevant to the Hispanic community including jobs, health, education and immigration. What they are called of taking part GOP candidates continue to be to become determined. Telemundo has simulcast political debates with NBC News previously but this is actually the very first time it'll produce and broadcast it solo, having its own talent with a sharper focus on Hispanic issues. The GOP candidates, brought by Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Ron Perry, Jon Huntsman and Bachmann Wanted, are boycotting Univision's The month of january 2012 debate in solidarity with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla). Inside a Miami Herald report at the begining of October, Rubio alleged that Univision agreed to tone lower or scrap a This summer 11 report about his brother-in-law, who had been charged of offering drugs in 1989, when the senator made an appearance on its Sunday news program "Al Punto." Univision declines this and it is standing behind its news prexy Isaac Lee, after a little GOP people required he be fired. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com