Univisions’s Sábado Gigante, the longest-running variety series in television history, will end its spectacular 53-year run September 19, the network said today. Host and creator Don Francisco — real ...

MIAMI: Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, whose Sábado Gigante ended its long run on Univision in September, has entered into a wide-ranging pact with Telemundo. The deal covers the ...

Reporting from MIAMI BEACH — Mario Kreutzberger is maneuvering his white Land Rover down a one-way street. He’s driving slowly one moment, cutting off other cars the next, drawing honks from other ...

Every Saturday for 53 years, Mario Kreutzberger has been a presence in Latino living rooms across America. The star? of Univision’s flagship show “Sabado Gigante,” Kreutzberger, age 74, hosted 2,800 ...

After 53 years, Don Francisco will finally put down the mic. Univision says it will stop making the legendarily unpredictable variety show Sábado Gigante in September, ending a run that began in 1962 ...

Born in Chile to German-Jewish refugees, Mario Kreutzberger studied clothing design in New York — and it was there that he discovered the wonders of television. In the end, the siren call of the ...

Don Francisco, former host of Univision’s Saturday night mainstay “Sabado Gigante,” has set a wide-ranging pact with rival Telemundo to serve as a senior news correspondent and to launch a production ...

Spanish-language media star Mario Kreutzberger -- better known to audiences as “Don Francisco” -- is returning to television. Nearly six months after Kreutzberger’s long-running variety show, “Sábado ...

A 43-year-old Chilean man is asking TV personality Don Francisco to take a DNA test to determine whether or not he is his biological father. Don Francisco, whose real name is Mario Kreutzberger, says ...

The cover of Mario Kreutzberger’s book, ‘Con ganas de vivir.’ During his confinement because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mario Kreutzberger, also known as Don Francisco, dedicated five hours a day to ...

Legendary television personality Don Francisco, the former host of Univision's long-running Saturday night variety program "Sabado Gigante," has sealed a deal with rival network Telemundo. According ...