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Univision, Televisa complete merger

Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings II, Inc. (together with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Univision Communications, have confirmed the completion of the $4.8 billion (€4.3bn) transaction between Televisa’s media content and production assets and Univision. The new company, TelevisaUnivision, creates the world’s leading Spanish-language media and content company. TelevisaUnivision will produce and deliver premium content for its […]

February 1, 2022By Colin Mann

Univision launches global streaming service

Spanish-language media and content company Univision has unveiled its plans for a comprehensive global streaming service, which includes both free ad-supported and premium subscription-based options, to launch in the US and Latin America in 2022. The two-tier streaming service will offer a differentiated product proposition, vast content scope, expansive library and more Spanish-language originals than […]

June 21, 2021

Google, Univision media transformation partnership

Google and US Spanish-language content and media company Univision have agreed a new, multi-year, strategic partnership to accelerate growth across Univision’s portfolio of media and content properties, providing solutions that will enable it to build the media company of tomorrow. Google Cloud will help drive Univision’s digital transformation, deepening the media company’s relationships with Hispanic […]

April 27, 2021

Televisa, Univision assets merger

In what the pair describe as a landmark transaction, Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings have announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa’s content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish-language media company in the world: Televisa-Univision. The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two […]

April 14, 2021

Univision acquires AVoD service VIX

US Spanish-language content company Univision Communications has acquired AVoD service VIX, which offers content to millions of US Hispanics and consumers throughout Latin America. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Earlier in 2021, Univision announced plans to launch PrendeTV, designed to be the only ad-supported video streaming service created exclusively for US Hispanics, […]

February 2, 2021

Univision launches Prende TV streamer

Univision is entering the streaming market with PrendeTV, a free, ad-supported service aimed at the US Hispanic audience with all Spanish-language programming. Taking its name from the Spanish-language word for ‘turn on’, PrendeTV will allow viewers to watch on any device. “PrendeTV is an important, early step in Univision’s broader efforts to build the same […]

January 13, 2021