Hasta La Creative!

Rapidly shifting consumer habits and growing impatience with commercials combined this season to knock a good chuck of TV’s primetime schedule clear off its foundations. Whole genres and programming blocks once assumed to be quake-proof have been deeply shaken. As the big broadcast networks prepare to pitch for ad budgets in their upfronts presentations, there’s no better time to survey the fault lines.

CBS needs a new Monday

No network is unscathed. For the first time since before “Survivor” helped transform it from an also-ran to America’s most-watched network, CBS finds itself having to rebuild an entire night of its schedule.

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Amid a major upheaval, Univision got out ahead of the TV upfronts to say that it’s continuing to grow and reinvent itself for the shifts happening in TV.

“I want to address the elephant in the room,” said Tonia O’Connor, chief revenue officer, Univision, at a press event Friday morning, ticking off the business review, cost cutting initiatives and layoffs that have hit Univision over the past few months.

Earlier this year, the Hispanic media company squelched plans for its long-anticipated initial public offering. Then CEO Randy Falco announced in March that he would retire at the end of the year, a year earlier than originally planned. The company also lost its chief financial officer, Francisco Lopez-Balboa, and Gizmodo Media Group CEO Raju Narisetti.

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