18 Facts About Grupo Televisa

Grupo Televisa has been led and owned by three generations of Azcarraga; 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.

Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV, XEW-TV and XHGC-TV .

Grupo Televisa started to transmit several programs produced by the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in 1977.

In 1985, a frequency swap moved the station from channel 8 to 9, and Grupo Televisa decided to swap its callsign for that of XEQ-TV, which had been on channel 9 and broadcast from Altzomoni; the XHTM callsign was moved to that station, which was moved to channel 10.

In 1991, Grupo Televisa, with help from Japanese public television network NHK, began its first broadcast in HDTV, using the Japanese Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling Encoding MUSE system.

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Between 1993 and 1994 Grupo Televisa was about to buy Italian local TV station GBR, based in Rome, planning to import in Italy his mixed sport-telenovelas formula, but the transaction was ultimately aborted.

In December 1997, Grupo Televisa joined with other Mexican media companies to create a marathon known as Teleton, whose mission is to provide knowledge about physical disabilities, giving a strong message about respect, equality and support to people in these conditions.

Grupo Televisa is the largest mass media company in Latin America, and it is owned by the Azcarraga family.

The approval of the repression of Atenco by TV Azteca and Grupo Televisa can be seen as a clear example of the collaboration between mass media and government.

In January 2016, Grupo Televisa introduced a new branding, including a new logo design: an updated version of the company's logo from 1973, and a new slogan "Tu compania, tu mas".

The move was made to combat the massive decline in Grupo Televisa's viewership created by the rise in popularity of Netflix and other video streaming services, becoming more popular than cable television, as well as the end of the duopoly of private channels caused by the arrival of new players in the 2010s.

Long before 1991, Grupo Televisa exercised strong control over the Mexican Football Federation in which they participated with the ownership of two teams .

In 2011, Grupo Televisa began airing reports concerning an allegedly monopoly of Telmex and America Movil on national cellular phone service and claiming that customers were being overcharged; claiming that fees to interconnect to existing cellular grid and infrastructure to third parties were excessively high.

In 2011 Grupo Televisa began airing an extense coverage on the arrest and incarceration of Chiapas ex-governor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchia, accused of several crimes, this coverage was prolonged and very extensive.

Grupo Televisa's concern was about a "perverse" relation between Salazar and Televisa journalists.

The rally organizers claimed that Grupo Televisa was actively assisting Pena Nieto to win the forecoming election and that their intense coverage of his activities as the Governor of Estado de Mexico, helped him position as the No 1 in opinion polls.

On 21 November 2016 Grupo Televisa released a telenovela titled La candidata portrayed by actress Silvia Navarro as Regina Barcenas and Rafael Sanchez Navarro as her husband Alonso San Roman .

Grupo Televisa has an ongoing relation with the US-based Univision network, dating back to the 1960s, when Univision's predecessor, the Spanish International Network, was owned by Telesistema Mexicano, Grupo Televisa's predecessor.