Last month, former MetLife legal ops director Yesenia Santiago made the leap to Miami-based TelevisaUnivision, which became the largest Spanish-language media company in the world following the merger of Grupo Televisa and Univision Communications earlier this year.

Santiago's connection to the forerunner companies runs deep. Like many Hispanic people in the United States, Santiago remembers one of the two networks always being on while at home, whether for evening news, after-school entertainment or anything else of import to the Hispanic community.