Jose Diaz Balart, the acclaimed nightly news anchor of Noticiero Telemundo and Telemundo’s Sunday morning program, Enfoque, will be the 2012 recipient of the distinguished award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television.  The annual award will be presented by Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News during the Awards Luncheon at the Tenth Annual Hispanic Television Summit, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, October 3, 2012.

The award acknowledges a single individual who has demonstrated his or her ability to support the growth and development of the Hispanic television industry and is historically presented at the Hispanic Television Summit.  Diaz Balart is being recognized for his extraordinary commitment to communicate news to both English and Spanish speakers and, especially for his ability to focus on news of importance to all Latino television viewers.

Previous recipients of the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hispanic Television include TV legend Don Francisco; sportscaster Andres Cantor; talk show hostess Cristina Saralegui; news anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Celeste Arraras, advertising executives Edgar Sandoval of P&G and Monica Gadsby of the Starcom MediaVest Group and; boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya.