Univision has one of the largest Spanish speaking audiences in the world. There is a big following for this network in Passaic, and on June 3, some students, were invited to visit the Univision studios, headquartered in New York City. Students from the radio and television production classes were happy to be chosen to attend this Univision tour.

The field trip was organized by Mrs. Garcia, who is in charge of the bilingual group of radio and television production classes. Mr. Pena also attended this trip.

It was exciting for students to see how a full working television studio works. Some of the Univision executives from their television news department greeted students, and they seemed interested in hearing from the students as much as the students wanted to meet them. Students were so excited to see just how everything backstage worked to make things look real for the television viewers. It is amazing just how fake things look in a studio and how real they all look on television.

Perhaps the most amazing part of these television productions is that so many things need to be going on at the same time. Everything has to happen without a mistake or the images for the television viewers will be ruined.

PHS students were honored to go and they showed it by presenting themselves as mature young adults. Not every school gets to go to this amazing place, and the executives made a point of stating that the students from PHS did a great job of showing the quality of the city they represent.
“Passaic is one of our loyal cities” one executive said.

Students were elated by these positive comments. Senior Cindy Tineo told executives about PHS’s first generation graduates program. These executives were quite interested in this and asked many follow up questions. They thought it sounded like a program that every school should have. We may even see some Univision cameras at graduation this year.

By Cindy Tineo