Miami’s Busy Telemundo Center Gears Up for the Election, Olympics and Even More Film and TV Productions
A significant portion of the Spanish-language programming made for Latin American audiences in the U.S. emanates from a single place in Miami — Telemundo Center. Opened in 2018, it hosts everything from Telemundo’s sports and news coverage, scripted programs (“Betty en NY,” “100 Días para Enamorarnos”) and reality competition shows (“El Domo del Dinero,” “Asi se Baila”) to NBCUniversal productions including “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party” in 2022 and 2023 and “The Katie Phang Show.”
“The goal of creating Telemundo Center was to gather all the different types of programming from Telemundo and NBCU we had playing out at different locations around Miami, and put them all under one roof,” says Anne-Laure Treny, VP of projects and production services for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.
Telemundo Center recently launched a multiplatform news and civic engagement initiative called “Decision 2024” and it’s currently gearing up for its coverage of the Olympic Games in Paris
this summer.
Spread out across 21 acres 12 miles from Miami Airport, the 500,000-square foot facility houses 15 studios, seven control rooms and 48 edit bays that collectively churn out more than 3,000 hours of content annually.
Telemundo Center also offers turnkey production facilities to third party productions, such as music videos and rehearsals for top Latina artists, live shows, movies, along with reality and sports programs for major streaming services.
It has stages ranging in size from 750 to 8,000 square feet, one of which includes a 36’ x 18’ heated pool. While not large enough to host a big budget movie shoot, the stages are accompanied by a deep array of production support services. The facility maintains a stockpile of more than 200,000 props spread out over three warehouses spanning more 115,000 square feet and 70,000 pieces of clothing stored in a single 5,000-square-foot climate-controlled warehouse. It also has hair and makeup, lighting rental and set construction departments, as well as project management and end-to-end virtual production services.
One state-of-art feature it has yet to install is an LED Volume stage. Treny says they’ve consulted with reps from companies like Unreal Engine, which provide the technology that power LED walls. However, at the moment, they’re content with their green screen stage, which is the largest in South Florida.
“With the green screen combined with the multi-camera system that we have here, we can do anything, whereas with the LED wall space, they have some limitations, especially when it comes to multi-camera shows,” says Treny.
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