Sevcec
Genre	Talk show
Created by	Joaquin Blaya
Presented by	Pedro Sevcec
Theme music composer	Omar Marchant
Country of origin	United States
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	5
Production
Production locations	Raleigh Studios Hollywood, California, United States
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	Telemundo
Release	1994 (1994) – 1999 (1999)

Sevcec was a Spanish-language talk show, hosted by journalist Pedro Sevcec and broadcast by Telemundo from 1994 until 1999. It aired weekdays at 4:00 p.m. from 1994 through 1998 and at 2:00 p.m from 1998-1999 Eastern Time.

Broadcast history

The show was created in 1994 by Telemundo's then-president Joaquin Blaya, who also helped create the Cristina show during his years as president of rival network Univision. Pedro Sevcec, who at the time was a co-anchor and reporter for Ocurrió Así, was selected to host and the show was titled Sevcec after his last name. It was the first Spanish-language talk show in the U.S. to have a male host, with Sevcec being dubbed the "Latin Phil Donahue".^[1]

The show became a success, taping over 1,200 episodes and winning seven Emmy Awards.^[2] However, with the show being up against the long-running Cristina in the 4:00 p.m. timeslot, Sevcec's ratings began to decline^[1] and it was cancelled in 1999. Laura en America took over the timeslot upon its arrival to the network that year.^[3]

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