20 Facts About Televisa

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 .

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 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, 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 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, 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.

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 Televisa can be seen as a clear example of the collaboration between mass media and government.

In January 2016, 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 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, Televisa exercised strong control over the Mexican Football Federation in which they participated with the ownership of two teams .

In 2010, Televisa began airing a series of reports in their news shows in whichthey claimed that businessman Isaac Saba Raffoul held a monopoly in the field of pharmaceuticals distribution along with the country with their enterprise Grupo Saba, those affirmations occurred as a consequence of the business partnership between Isaac Saba Raffoul and General Electric to become the third national television network.

Analysts say this was a retaliation against Grupo Reforma for their extense coverage of the affair of their star news anchor Carlos Loret de Mola, all of this as a retaliation itself to the fact that Televisa obtained licenses to provide third and fourth generation wireless services in partnership with communications giant Nextel.

In 2011, 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 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.

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

The rally organizers claimed that 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 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 .

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, Televisa's predecessor.