Former Los Angeles mayor to advise Spanish-language broadcaster Estrella TV

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has joined Spanish-language broadcaster Estrella TV as a senior advisor to help the 4-year-old television network gain traction.

The network, based in Burbank, is banking on Villaraigosa to give it greater visibility and pull in additional advertising dollars to better compete with established giants, including Univision Communications and NBCUniversal's Telemundo. Estrella TV becomes the latest employer of Villaraigosa since he departed City Hall last summer. He also was named a senior advisor for Herbalife, Banc of California and the large public relations firm Edelman. He accepted a position as a Harvard University visiting fellow and, in Los Angeles, he signed on as a part-time professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy and head of a new think thank called the USC Villaraigosa Initiative for Restoring the California Dream.