You had important bulletins with main names on stage: Tremendous Bowl-level information.
Once more, all of the entrepreneurs and companies have been impressed, and we did an exceptional job of bringing it to life, and we at all times say it, and it’s true, however we’re the house of soccer, and also you noticed that on stage in spades.

Let’s speak about soccer. Final yr, your salsa dancing was the discuss of the city, and also you danced on stage this yr too. However you additionally headed to Mexico Metropolis for soccer. Will we be seeing salsa at future upfronts? The viewers is anticipating it at this level.
I’d say keep tuned. By no means say by no means. Everyone is aware of I like to bounce. The explanation that I do numerous these movies—the primary one was a salsa dance, and this one is to shine a light-weight on the expertise of our viewers. The primary video was actually about partnership. That is clearly loads about teamwork, however the purpose was to point out the eagerness and the fandom and the tradition of what this viewers has for soccer. It was an enormous training for me, being at Azteca Stadium. I had by no means been there earlier than, and the fandom is unbelievable. I’ve by no means skilled something prefer it, even in an NFL sport. And I’ve been to many, many soccer video games. My purpose is to maintain doing it. I’ve to maintain beating the drum, no pun supposed, and each likelihood I get, present shoppers and share with shoppers the distinction and nuances of our Hispanic viewers and the eagerness and tradition they’ve for all elements of our content material—whether or not it’s music and leisure and our tentpoles, which is you see once you go to a Latin Grammys, PJs [Premios Juventud] or a soccer sport.

It can positively be a slower tempo, solely due to timing and other people simply not being prepared. However conversations are occurring and shall be persevering with for some time.

Donna Speciale on the state of upfront talks

Final yr salsa, this yr soccer, subsequent yr possibly one thing new—however what was more durable of the 2?
Most likely salsa, solely as a result of for those who noticed the strikes he made me do. That was positively one thing I didn’t count on myself to do, however I had a extremely good instructor, and when you may have associate, you are able to do something, which is what that was all about. However these steps have been in all probability the toughest for me.

I might definitely by no means do this. However did you really rating a purpose within the video?
I really did. I completely did rating it. They have been nice. The ladies I performed with have been phenomenal. Belief me. I used to be inferior to any of them on the sphere. However they have been nice, and the legends that I performed with, the blokes, have been phenomenal. I did do a header. They didn’t present it, however I did it.

Shifting gears just a little bit, TelevisaUnivision was one of many few displays that was capable of have expertise on stage. Was your presentation impacted by the strike?
It was not impacted in any respect. Everyone that we had going confirmed up. We had one particular person not present up, nevertheless it had nothing to do with the strike, it needed to do with scheduling. However we weren’t impacted in any respect.