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Company type | Private |
NYSE: UVN (1996-2007) | |
Industry | Mass media and entertainment |
Founded | Los Angeles, California in 1962 |
Founder | Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta of Televisa |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Wade Davis (US CEO); Bernardo Gomez Martinez, Alfonso de Angoitia (Mexico co-CEOs) |
Owner | Grupo Televisa (45%) |
Number of employees | 14,000 |
Divisions | Univision Galavisión UniMás Univision Digital Uforia Audio Network TUDN Univision Television Group Videocine Pantelion Films (50%) Televisa Networks Televisa Consumer Products Televisa Internacional Televisa Regional Vix |
Website | corporate |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4] |
TelevisaUnivision (formerly known as Univision Communications) is a Mexican-American media company headquartered in New York and Mexico City that owns American Spanish language broadcast network Univision and free-to-air channels in Mexico such as Las Estrellas, Canal 5, Foro, and NU9VE alongside a collection of specialty television channels and production studios. 45% of the company is held by the Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company Grupo Televisa, which was a major programming partner for Univision until the company sold their content assets to Univision in 2022.
Since its founding in the early 1960s as Spanish International Network (SIN), the United States' first Spanish language television network, the company has catered to Hispanic and Latino Americans. It is currently a multimedia conglomerate, with free-to-air and specialty, digital and audio networks, including 65 television stations, online and mobile apps and products.[5][6][7][8]