WGBH Executive Producer Joseph Tovares Honored by The Imagen Foundation

WGBH Executive Producer Joseph Tovares Honored by The Imagen Foundation

BOSTON, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Imagen Foundation recognizes "The Entertainment Industry's Most Powerful & Influential Latinos," including WGBH executive producer Joseph Tovares, at the award's inaugural luncheon on Wednesday, October 15, 2007, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Tovares is the executive producer of La Plaza, the Emmy award-winning Latino production unit at WGBH Boston, where he oversees a variety of broadcast and interactive projects.

La Plaza produces Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One, which features award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa in conversation with America's foremost Latino artists, writers, activists and civic leaders. Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One airs nationally on public television stations across the United States (distributed via American Public Television.) The programs are available as video streams on http://www.wgbh.org/oneonone . The series Web site also offers selected clips as podcasts. The series kicks off its second season in January 2008.

La Plaza also produces the Spanish language series, Conversaciones con Maria Hinojosa as well as Blog La Plaza, a Latino video blog at http://www.thecolorline.org/ .

The Imagen Foundation works to create, promote and enhance opportunities for all Latinos throughout the entertainment industry, and serves as a liaison between the industry and the Latino community by providing access, education and resources.

About WGBH

WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of fully one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, one of the most trafficked dot-org Web sites in the world. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards ... even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For more information visit http://www.wgbh.org/ .

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CONTACT: Stefanie Koperniak of WGBH Boston, +1-617-300-5317,
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Web site: http://www.wgbh.org/
http://www.thecolorline.org/

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