Televisa is Mexico's largest media company and the number one producer and provider of Spanish television programming in the world. It was created in 1973 as Televisión Vía Satélite, when Telesistema Mexicano (established in 1955) and Televisión Independiente de México (established in 1968) merged. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

Televisa is an entertainment conglomerate that owns theaters, music studios, magazines, and book publishers but largely dedicates itself to the production of soap operas (or telenovelas), special events, talk shows, and movies. Televisa sports shows boxing and wrestling, but its main sport is soccer. The company's main competitor is TV Azteca. The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... Telenovela is the Spanish and Portuguese word for prime time serial or soap opera. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Santo. ... The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... TV Azteca is a Mexican television network. ...

Televisa is listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange (Bolsa Mexicana de Valores) and the New York Stock Exchange. The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores or BMV is Mexicos main stock exchange. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is the second largest stock exchange in the world. ...

Target audience

Harsh criticisms are frequently leveled at Televisa for its apparent glorification of the banal and its unsophisticated programming. Such impressions are indeed borne out by the regular Televisa diet of celebrity gossip, brash variety shows, sport, repetitive comedy series in which the same actors – year in, year out – dress up as children and go through the same tired old comedy routines, and, of course, the morning-noon-and-night serving-up of telenovelas.

In response to these accusations, company president Emilio Azcárraga explained: "Mexico is a country where the working class is screwed [Spanish: una clase modesta muy jodida] and is going to remain screwed... One obligation of television is to bring some fun to those people and to separate them from their sad realities and difficult future" (quoted here by Carlos Monsiváis). Again, in his last public appearance (3 March 1997), Azcárraga elaborated on his company's target audience: "We can't avoid the very wealthy, but really, they don't interest us much. Our programming has always been and always will be for the popular classes." Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Indeed, the financially more comfortable and better educated sectors of the Mexican population largely ignore Televisa's domestic programming, preferring to watch foreign programs over cable or satellite tv systems. Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional... Satellite television is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km (22,300 miles) above the earths surface. ...

External links

• Official Site