 The strategy helped Univision to nearly double its ratings during prime time by 1998, ranking as the fifth most-watched American broadcast network by the 1998–99 season (beating fledgling English-language networks UPN and The WB), as it steadily began to attract bilingual viewers away from the English-language networks.In September 1998, the network added two new shows to shore up its struggling afternoon lineup leading into the highly rated "Cristina".While one of the programs – the game show "El Bla-Blazo" – lasted only a few years, it experienced more long-term success with the newsmagazine that followed it, "El Gordo y La Flaca" ("The Scoop and the Skinny", although alternately translated as "The Fat Man and the Skinny Girl"), a Miami-based entertainment news program hosted by Raul De Molina and Lili Estefan, who had become popular with viewers for their entertainment reports on the network's news programs.