Now in the second year of a lifestyle brands deal with Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony despite their personal break-up, Kohl's is sponsoring the former couple's reality series on Univision, ¡Q'Viva! The Chosen, which premieres on Saturday, March 3rd on FOX. 

The his-and-hers celeb tie-ins come at an interesting time for Kohl's, which is cutting back on bricks-and-mortar stores in order to focus on e-commerce. Watch a promo, above, for the estranged couple's new FOX series, and the promos for their new spring collections below.Continue reading...

Big-time press conferences across the globe may need to make room for two more microphones soon. Disney is reportedly in talks to launch a 24-hour Spanish-language all-news channel later this spring with Univision, in a bid to create a cable news channel for English-speaking Latinos.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the Spanish TV giant and the Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC and a host of other cable networks including ESPN, are developing a 24-hour, all-news, English-language channel. Univision “could use the channel to reach more acculturated viewers that advertisers prefer: Latinos who predominately speak English,” the Times reports.

The move would bolster Disney's ABC News division, which has “struggled to be more competitive and has shed hundreds of staff members from its ABC News division because the network produces only a few newscasts.” It would also give a direct line to America's booming Latino population, with roughly 50 million Americans ticking the Hispanic or Latino census box in 2010, a 43% jump up from the 2000 Census. 

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In the next strange chapter of reality TV, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony talk candidly about why their marriage failed — and Kohl's will be along for the ride.

In 2010 the middle-market retailer from Wisconsin signed JLo and her then-husband to put their names on his-and-hers clothing and lifestyle collections. But last summer, after Lopez scored big as a new judge on American Idol and was named People magazine's "most beautiful woman in the world," the marriage was falling apart — just as their Kohl's collections were hitting stores.

Kohl's has continued to sell the celebs' clothing lines, sweetening the partnership as the exclusive retail sponsor for their new Spanish-language television series in the vein of Idol.Continue reading...

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