11 Facts About UniMas

UniMas is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision.

UniMas is available on cable and satellite television throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 40 markets with large Hispanic and Latino populations.

On May 13,2019, UniMas refocused its programming strategy in order to target a younger audience to that of its parent network Univision, with a focus on news, sports, unscripted entertainment and reality shows, most of them broadcast live.

UniMas operates on a 126-hour network programming schedule, which it has maintained since its launch as TeleFutura in January 2002.

Notably, UniMas was to replace Telemundo as the US Spanish language broadcaster of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants through an agreement with the Miss Universe Organization that was signed on February 5,2015.

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TeleFutura shows carried over to the relaunched UniMas included sports programs such as Solo Boxeo and the nightly sports news program Contacto Deportivo.

On November 1,2014, UniMas began airing rebroadcasts of the El Rey Network professional wrestling showcase Lucha Underground on Saturday afternoons.

Partly in order to fill these gaps, UniMas provides a national cable network feed that is distributed directly to cable, satellite and IPTV providers as an alternative method of distribution in markets without either the availability or the demand for a locally based owned-and-operated or affiliate station.

UniMas maintains a handful of subchannel-only affiliations in a few markets, the largest by market size being WUVG-DT2 in Atlanta, Georgia, whose parent station operates as a Univision owned-and-operated station.

UniMas provides video on demand access for delayed viewing of full episodes of the network's programming through various means, including via Hulu's Hulu Latino platform through a content deal with the service.

However, twelve UniMas-affiliated stations – all but one of which is owned by Entravision Communications – currently transmit the network's programming in 480i standard definition, either due to technical considerations for affiliates of other major networks that carry programming from another network in high definition on their main channel or because a primary feed UniMas affiliate has not yet upgraded their transmission equipment to allow content to be presented in HD.