Date: 4th January 2001

TV Con Queso


Kids entertainment-and-pizza restaurant Chuck E. Cheese has produced a commercial partly in Spanish that is scheduled to begin a run on Nickelodeon Channel on Sunday.

The spot will air during an episode of The Brothers Garcia, a show that also contains sprinklings of Spanish in the dialogue. In an interview with today's (Thursday) New York Times, Jon Rice, vice president for marketing at Chuck E. Cheese, commented: "We felt from our research that the children living in Spanish-speaking homes were in fact actually very bilingual and relate very well to these programs. ... This is something that was new and not really available on any other network."

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Source: Studio Briefing