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Telesistema Mexicano was a television alliance made up of the independently owned television flagship stations XEW Canal 2, XHTV Canal 4, and XHGC Canal 5 in Mexico, Distrito Federal . History.
Telesistema Mexicano fue una alianza formada por estaciones de televisión de propietarios independientes XEW-TV Canal 2, XHTV-TV Canal 4 y XHGC-TV Canal 5 en México, Distrito Federal. [1] Historia
Nov 5, 2014 · Por ese entonces Rómulo O'Farril, propietario del pionero canal 4 (hoy Foro TV) y la familia Azcárraga, dueños del canal 2, se unen para formar Telesistema Mexicano, que en 1973 pasa a llamarse...
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History
Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017,each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death.
Properties or partial properties
Televisa is the second-largest media conglomerate in Latin America behind Grupo Globo, with interests in television broadcasting, programming for pay television, international distribution of television programming, direct-to-home satellite services, publishing and publishing distribution, cable television, radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and show business promotions, paging services, feature film production and distribution, dubbing, and the operation of a horizontal I...
Media networks
Televisa is the largest shareholder of TelevisaUnivision, which provides programming throughout Mexico through four networks via Las Estrellas, Foro, Canal 5 and Nu9ve, and in the United States via Univision and UniMásthrough local affiliates. 253 Mexican local television stations (54.8% of the total commercial stations), and 59 US local television stations air programming from all six terrestrial networks. TelevisaUnivision also operates a subsidiary called Televisa Networks(it's still often...
Political bias, defamation and impartial news coverage
Due to Televisa's multiple and diverse areas of business and political interests around the country, Latin America and the U.S., it has been often accused of airing misleading information about individuals or organizations in which may exist a conflict of interest. Many remember the famous phrase from the former owner of Televisa Emilio Azcarraga Milmo referring to himself as a "soldado del Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)" (soldier of the Institutional Revolutionary Party), the lon...
2017 Puebla earthquake fake news controversy
In September 19, 2017, an 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico City, collapsing 40 buildings. During the news coverage of the devastation, Televisa reported there was a 3-year-old girl named Frida Sofia trapped within the debris of the Enrique C. Rébsamen school. The Mexican Navyinitially corroborated the story, but on September 21, officials claimed that they were "sure that the existence of the minor was not a reality." Televisa was heavily criticized for sharing such fake news and making re...
Denigratory treatment towards women
In the Netflix documentary Cuando conocí al Chapo: La historia de Kate del Castillo focused on the story of how actress Kate del Castillo met Mexican drug dealer Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. The aforementioned former Televisa actress, along producer Epigmenio Ibarra, both stated that during the 90's Televisa treated actresses as sex objects, going as far as offering them to investors and publicists.
Televisa and Univision
Televisa has an ongoing relation with the US-based Univision network, dating back to the 1960s, when Univision's predecessor, the Spanish International Network (SIN), was owned by Telesistema Mexicano, Televisa's predecessor.[citation needed] In October 2010, Televisa agreed to take a 5% stake in Univisionand to extend and expand the companies' long-term program license agreement. The new program license agreement will include Internet and mobile rights and cover key Mexican football (soccer)...
Televisa and Telemundo
On 18 March 2008, Televisa and NBCUniversal announced a 10-year multiplatform agreement that would allow 1,000 hours of Telemundoprogramming from news, entertainment programs, specials, and sports to be broadcast over not only its Galavision channel (XEQ-TV), but also its SKY Channel and Cablevision cable system starting in April, as well as a planned Telemundo pay TV channel to be launched later in 2008.
Televisa's uncompleted agreement to acquire a stake in Nextel Mexico
In January 2010, Televisa announced an offer to acquire a 30% stake in Nextel Mexico from NII Holdingsfor US$1.44 billion. However, they later terminated the agreement.
Film depiction
The perceived political favoritism of Televisa towards the PRI, and the concept of the "cortinas de humo (smoke screens)" was explored in the Mexican black-comedy film The Perfect Dictatorship (2014), directed and written by Luis Estrada, whose plot directly criticizes both the PRI and Televisa. Taking place in a Mexico with a tightly controlled media landscape, the plot centers around a corrupt politician (a fictional stand-in for Enrique Peña Nieto) from a political party (serving as a fict...
(in Spanish) Televisa website(in Spanish) Esmas, Televisa's Internet portal(in Spanish) NovelaLounge, News on upcoming Televisa telenovelasEl surgimiento, dominio y control del capital monopolista en la televisión abierta mexicana es un proceso que en ciertas ocasiones es atribuido a una falla del sistema del mercado y no como una forma natural de operación del capital en una etapa determinada de su desarrollo.
Televisión Independiente de México, (también conocido como TIM, Cadena TIM o simplemente Canal 8 ), fue una cadena de televisión comercial en México, cuyos inicios datan de 1965 cuando el empresario Eugenio Garza Sada, al frente del Grupo Monterrey, inaugura la estación XET-TV en Monterrey, Nuevo León.
The Televisa Chapultepec Edificio de Servicios is a major example of the growing modernism within Mexico and the intricacy of art in Mexico City. Originally founded as Telesistema Mexicano in 1955, Televisa or “Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.” became what it is known as today in 1973 when it merged with Television Independiente de Mexico.
