After several weeks of speculation about a possible sale, Univision confirmed that Searchlight and ForgeLight will acquire 64% of its shares, while Televisa will retain the remaining 36%, in addition to the Programming License Agreement it has with the US company. Wade Davis, former Viacom CFO, will be in charge of Univision’s executive direction once [...]
Televisa Group and Univisión announced that they will launch TUDN, its sports content brand evolution ,on July 20th. The channel, which will combine production efforts of Univisión in the US and Televisa in Mexico, will be broadcast on pay TV 24 hours a day, and its slogan will be ‘Vivimos tu pasión’. ‘TUDN comes up [...]
The OTT Blim announced it will include 25 Televisa Group’s TV channels to the platform’s subscribers offer. Blim’s website will show a TV guide, in which the entire TV channels programming will be available, together with each program’s name and the corresponding day and time they are scheduled to be broadcast. Televisa Group’s offer will [...]
America Movil sent a formal request to the Mexican Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT), in which it asks the regulator to get authorized to enter the TV market in the country again, either via satellite or internet. Some of the arguments presented by the company in the request were that enabling TV access for any of [...]
The Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) Plenary approved the candidates proposed by Fox and Disney as Independent Auditor and Disincorporation Agent and, that way, allow Mexican Fox Sports channels sale. With the Agent’s designation, a six-month period is granted for the sale, extendible in an only opportunity for justified reasons. Once notified, Disney and Fox have [...]
Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) approved the agreement between Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox entertainment assets for USD 71 billion, with the condition that both companies agree to sell Fox Sports channels and programming rights in Mexico. Information was given by newspaper ‘El Financiero’, which mentions ‘two people with knowledge of the situation’. Disney expects [...]
According to a US Comscore report, Televisa Group led digital platforms content in 2018. Emilio Azcarraga’s company surpassed 20.3 million users and also made a better performance than Republic Presidence official website and Yahoo. Televisa’s News, one of the most visited sites that concentrates more than 39% of group’s total audience, added more than 1.4 [...]