09-24-2002

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This will be an ongoing project throughout the school year.  Santillana USA will be donating books to each of the schools featured in the weekly segment. “Club de Libros 23” will feature weekly reading segments with news anchor Eileen Cardet in “Al Amanecer” highlighting the importance of reading in education and the positive messages that can be found in books.

The segments will be taped weekly from various South Florida schools throughout the school year. In addition, Santillana USA will donate two libraries at the end of the school year through a raffle conducted amongst all the participating schools.

“El Club de Libros 23 “ kicks off on Thursday, September 26th at 9:00AM at Kensington Park Elementary with a presentation and book signing by renowned children’s authors Alma Flor Ada and Isabel Campoy, a student’s character parade portraying various Santillana books, and community and education professionals reading aloud to students throughout the school.

With offices in 22 countries, Santillana is the leading Spanish-language publishing house in the world.  For many years, Santillana has published the best literary works by the most prestigious authors from Latin America and Spain, including Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Benedetti, Marcela Serrano, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Alma Flor Ada, and the Nobel Literature Prize winners, Günter Grass (1999) and José Saramago (1998).

Univision Communications Inc. (NYSE: UVN) is the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States. Its operations include: Univision Network, the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the U.S. reaching 97% of U.S. Hispanic households; TeleFutura Network, a new 24-hour general-interest Spanish-language broadcast television network reaching 72% of U.S. Hispanic households and counter-programming traditional Spanish-language lineups to draw additional viewers to Spanish-language television; Univision Television Group, which owns and operates 22 television stations; TeleFutura Television Group which owns and operates 27 television stations; Galavision, the country's leading Spanish-language cable network; Univision Music Group, which includes the Univision Music label, Fonovisa Records label and a 50% interest in Mexican-based Disa Records label as well as Fonomusic and America Musical Publishing companies; and Univision Online, the premier Internet company in the U.S. Hispanic market reaching 80% of the nation's Spanish-speaking online audience at www.univision.com. Univision also owns a 31% interest in Entravision Communication Corporation, a diversified Spanish-language media company that owns and operates the majority of Univision’s full-power broadcast affiliates.  Univision Communications is headquartered in Los Angeles, with network operations in Miami and television stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States.