A broad coalition of 39 major Latino organizations has issued a letter to the heads of six major U.S. English-language broadcasters asking them to work towards better Hispanic guest inclusion on the Sunday morning political talk shows.

The letter, issued by the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) and addressed to the heads of ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, expresses the group's “deep frustration regarding the continued lack of Hispanic voices” on their agenda-setting Sunday political programs and urges them to “take immediate action to increase Hispanic guest bookings and broaden the scope of issues that include their voices.”

Hector Sanchez, NHLA chairman and executive director of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, said in a statement that the lack of Hispanic inclusion on those programs “results in distorting the image of our community's contributions to the life of our nation.” Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), added: “It is irresponsible to exclude the perspectives of 17 percent of the U.S. population from the airwaves.”

Only seven percent of guests on English-language Sunday shows during the last eighteen weeks of 2014 were Latino, according to a Media Matters study. While the letter notes that this proves “an increase from the two percent representation found in a 2011 report by the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts,” these numbers remain significantly short of the 17 percent of Americans who identify as Hispanic.

In the letter, the NHLA encourages the network chiefs to take advantage of the “impressive list of Latino experts from across the country that specialize in issues ranging from education, health, immigration, public safety, the economy, civil rights, the media and beyond.”