TeleFutura

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Telefutura

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	United States
Availability	National; also available in Mexico
Owner	Univision Communications
Launch date	January 14, 2002
Past names	None
Website	www.telefutura.com

Telefutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.

1 Overview
2 Shows
3 See also
4 External link

[edit] Overview

The network started on January 14, 2002, a month behind Telemundo's launch of its cable TV network, the bilingual mun2, with programs such as the 3 hour gossip/Entertainment show Escándalo TV which was designed to compete with similar offerings like Cotorreando from NBC Universal's Telemundo. Commercials for Telefutura often air on the Univision network.

Most of the stations that carry Telefutura once aired the Home Shopping Network. Univision bought the stations from Barry Diller's USA Broadcasting late in 2001.

Telefutura's programming consists of Venezuelan telenovelas from Coral Productions, RCTV, and game shows from Televisa and Venevision. The network also airs movies (mainly recent American releases dubbed into Spanish), boxing, Futbol Liga Mexicana broadcasts, news (including Contacto deportivo) and game shows, including their first game show "Que Dice La Gente?" (literally, What are people saying?) based on the popular "Family Feud",it should be noted that this telefutura produced Miami based game show is based on the defunct Televisa TV game show 100 Mexicanos Dijeron, and like that show is also hosted by Marco Antonio Regil.

In late 2005, Telefutura started airing En Vivo y Directo, a 7pm newscast, opposite the taped 4pm news on Galavision). But the network eventually cancelled "En Vivo y Directo" due to low ratings after only a few weeks and have replaced the newscast with movies.

There were rumors that Tribune Company would buy Telefutura from Univision Communications and creating duopolies in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Sacramento.^{[citation needed]} As of 2006, this has not occurred.

Telefutura is also a part of the Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, as Univision owns exclusive US Spanish-language rights. For 2006 it carried eight live games, all in the last days of group play when games are played simultaneously, like ESPN2 did with ESPN for English-language coverage. It also had game replays and recap shows.

In late June 2006, Univision was sold to an investment group including entertainment industry veteran Haim Saban for $13 billion, there are reports on media message boards that Telefutura is being phased out and several key on air talents are being shifted to Univision and Galavision channels. However these rumors have not been verified, nor will the shutdown of TeleFutura happen anytime soon: According to Nielsen Media Research, in February 2007 TeleFutura made significant gains in viewership at the expense of Telemundo, actually taking over second place among Spanish-language networks in the Adults 18-34, Men 18-34 and Men 18-49 demos. [1]

[edit] Shows

Asi es la Vida

Cine de las Estrellas

cinescape

El Desprecio

María Isabel

Merlina, Mujer Divina

Objetivo Fama

Que dice la Gente?

Quien tiene la Razon?

monica

Escandalo TV

[edit] See also

List of Telefutura affiliates
List of United States television networks

[edit] External link

Official Site

Broadcast television networks in the United States

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Specialty networks: America One | ION | ImaginAsian | MTV2 | OBN | RTN | CAS | Asia Vision | RSN

Univision Communications

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Television assets: Galavisión | TeleFutura | Univision

Record labels: Univision Records | Fonovisa | Disa Records

Other Television Stations: KUVI (MyNetworkTV affiliate)

^{1: Managed by Entravision Communications}

Annual Revenue: $2.17 billion USD | Employees: 4,233 (full time) | Stock Symbols: NYSE: UVN | Website: www.univision.net/corp/intro.jsp