Univision: Difference between revisions

The ink was barely dry off the deal when Univision created three of its most defining programs: the morning show ''Mundo Latino'' (''Latino World''), Chilean TV personality Don Francisco's frantic, [[Long Runners|long-running]] [[Variety Show]] ''Sábado Gigante'' (''Big Saturday''), and the women's TV news magazine ''TV Mujer'' (''Woman TV''). Starting in 1993, under the stewardship of new owner Jerry Perenchio, its designs grew to a national scale, and it expanded and revamped its once-moribund news operations. KMEX, the Los Angeles O&O station that provided two-fifths of the network's revenue at the time, made history by becoming the first Spanish-language TV station to outperform the English-language stations. Such instances would become less anomalous as time went by -- it overtook [[UPN]] and [[The WB]] ''nationally'' in the early 2000s, becoming the fifth-largest network overall, and in September 2010 it won the entire week on the strength of a popular [[Soap Opera|telenovela]]'s finale and a [[Prime Time]] Mexico/Ecuador soccer match. (The fact that the English networks were still burning off their summer programming also helped.)

 

 

Univision still gets much of its programming, including most of its telenovelas, from [[Televisa]], though in the past several years relations between the two networks have been strained due to what Televisa sees as [[Bowdlerise|unnecessary censorship]] of its shows by Univision. Much of this has to do with the fact that, in addition to Spanish obscenities, Univision also filters out words that have no negative connotations in Spanish [[In My Language, That Sounds Like...|but are considered obscene in English and other languages]].

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