History Creator / Televisa

Televisa was also, during the 1990s, one of the main contributors to the Anime Boom of the Nineties in Mexico (alongside the other main channel, TV Azteca), showing ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'', and ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (though seemingly, like {{TV Azteca}}, they [[AnimationAgeGhetto only noticed]] the massive amounts of violence and {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST in some of these cartoons until 2000, when Televisa found out about the moral panic that many of these cartoons caused, particularly from a TV Azteca talk show that linked anime to satanism using poorly-made arguments, and decided to pander to the moralist crowd by pulling most of them from their regular programming, although ''DBZ'' would survive the panic and stay a part of Televisa's schedule well into TheNewTens.

Televisa's recent decline was also thanks to a new competitor in the audiovisual media market: Creator/{{Netflix}}, which arrived to Mexico in 2011 but gained popularity around 2014 as broadband connections, smartphones and TV sets with a Netflix app became widespread. Given these conditions, Netflix quickly spread among the population thanks to its greater convenience (no need to deal with a cable TV operator, you just need to sign contract with an ISP, press Play and It Just Works), its greater assortment of international TV and movie hits by just pressing Play on the remote control, and the fact that Televisa was already so loathed among the Mexican middle-class youth that Netflix became popular ''by just not being Televisa'', and as a result lots of middle-class Mexicans outright dropped their traditional TV services in favor of the new "internet TV" that was Netflix. Then the analog blackout took place in 2014, leaving out not only millions of poor Mexicans unable to afford a decoder but also leaving out many middle-class Mexicans who just didn't bother to get a digital decoder because Netflix was just ''that'' convenient (and it was not Televisa). With its numbers dwindling as more people jumped into Netflix, Televisa tried to jump into the video streaming bandwagon in 2016 by pulling their content from Netflix and moving it to their brand new video-on-demand service called ''Blim''... but it backfired as the millenial crowd which was supposed to be their target market just ended up laughing in their faces on social media. And to add up, when Televisa removed their series from Netflix, the shares value of the latter ''increased'', with Netflix making fun of the absence of Televisa's content. There was also a legal campaign led by Televisa to keep Roku devices out of the market because of all this...which just led to many Mexican viewers snapping up cheap Android streaming players or Fire TVs, and companies to add VPNs and out-of-country apps to them for a cost (helping consumers who didn't know how to root their devices), and getting around the Televisa monopoly entirely. Roku eventually won their case and got their players into Mexico anyways, meaning all Televisa did was not only delay the inevitable, but having to deal with a viewership happy to get their content through any means possible.

And then, Telmex CEO Carlos Slim decided to undermine Televisa's [[AndZoidberg (and TV Azteca's)]] market share even further by purchasing exclusive broadcasting rights for the 2016 Rio Olympics and putting them up on his own video streaming service Clarovideo and pay-tv channel Claro Sports, as well as in public television networks (some from inside the country) and cable channels ESPN and FOX Sports, which ended up having a positive reception due to actually showcasing the Olympics instead of stale jokes and soccer, this also lasted during the 2018 [=PyeongChang=] Winter Olympics.

Televisa programming is seen in the US & Puerto Rico on Creator/{{Univision}}. The mentioned simulcasts above in the US are carried by Univision as part of Televisa's distribution contracts with Univision. In 2021, the company announced that it will be selling its content assets to Univision so it could focus on its Pay-TV and Internet business (Televisa will also mantain the station licenses for the main four networks). The company is known as ''[=TelevisaUnivision=]'' and the sale was completed on January 31, 2022.

Televisa programming is seen in the US & Puerto Rico on Creator/{{Univision}}. The mentioned simulcasts above in the US are carried by Univision as part of Televisa's distribution contracts with Univision. In 2021, the company announced that it will be selling its content assets to Univision so it could focus on its Pay-TV and Internet business. (Televisa will also mantain the station licenses for the main four networks) The company is known as ''[=TelevisaUnivision=]'' and the sale was completed on January 31, 2022.

Televisa programming is seen in the U.S. & Puerto Rico on Creator/{{Univision}}. The mentioned simulcasts above in the US are carried by Univision as part of Televisa's distribution contracts with Univision. In 2021, the company announced that it will be selling its content assets to Univision so it could focus on its Pay-TV and Internet business. (Televisa will also mantain the station licenses for the main four networks) The company is known as ''[=TelevisaUnivision=]'' and the sale was completed on January 31, 2022.

[[https://televisa.com Televisa]] is the largest Spanish-speaking media company (or if you decide to add up the other companies owned by Grupo Televisa or by any of the Azcárragas, a MegaCorp). It was initially founded as Telesistema Mexicano in 1955, in Mexico City, by unifying three different channels under said banner and then exerting control over several smaller TV stations in the rest of Mexico as time went by. Its four over-the-air channels (those available without suscription to any cable company) are:

Televisa is the largest Spanish-speaking media company (or if you decide to add up the other companies owned by Grupo Televisa or by any of the Azcárragas, a MegaCorp). It was initially founded as Telesistema Mexicano in 1955, in Mexico City, by unifying three different channels under said banner and then exerting control over several smaller TV stations in the rest of Mexico as time went by. Its four over-the-air channels (those available without suscription to any cable company) are:

Televisa programming is seen in the U.S. & Puerto Rico on Creator/{{Univision}}. The mentioned simulcasts above in the US are carried by Univision as part of Televisa's distribution contracts with Univision. In 2021, the company announced that it will be selling its content assets to Univision so it could focus on its Pay-TV and Internet business. (Televisa will also mantain the station licenses for the main four networks) The company is known as ''[=TelevisaUnivision=]'' and the sale was completed on January 31, 2022

Televisa programming is seen in the U.S. & Puerto Rico on Creator/{{Univision}}. The mentioned simulcasts above in the US are carried by Univision as part of Televisa's distribution contracts with Univision. In 2021, the company announced that it will be selling its content assets to Univision so it could focus on its Pay-TV and Internet business. (Televisa will also mantain the station licenses for the main four networks)

Televisa was also, during the 1990s, one of the main contributors to the Anime Boom of the Nineties in Mexico (alongside the other main channel, TV Azteca), showing ''Manga/DragonBall'', ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', and ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' (though seemingly, like {{TV Azteca}}, they [[AnimationAgeGhetto only noticed]] the massive amounts of violence and {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST in some of these cartoons until 2000, when Televisa found out about the moral panic that many of these cartoons caused, particularly from a TV Azteca talk show that linked anime to satanism using poorly-made arguments, and decided to pander to the moralist crowd by pulling most of them from their regular programming, although ''DBZ'' would survive the panic and stay a part of Televisa's schedule well into TheNewTens.

Televisa's recent decline was also thanks to a new competitor in the audiovisual media market: Creator/{{Netflix}}, which arrived to Mexico in 2011 but gained popularity around 2014 as broadband connections, smartphones and TV sets with a Netflix app became widespread. Given these conditions, Netflix quickly spread among the population thanks to its greater convenience (no need to deal with a cable TV operator, you just need to sign contract with an ISP, press Play and It Just Works), its greater assortment of international TV and movie hits by just pressing Play on the remote control, and the fact that Televisa was already so loathed among the Mexican middle-class youth that Netflix became popular ''by just not being Televisa'', and as a result lots of middle-class Mexicans outright dropped their traditional TV services in favor of the new "internet TV" that was Netflix. Then the analog blackout took place in 2014, leaving out not only millions of poor Mexicans unable to afford a decoder but also leaving out many middle-class Mexicans who just didn't bother to get a digital decoder because Netflix was just ''that'' convenient (and it was not Televisa). With its numbers dwindling as more people jumped into Netflix, Televisa tried to jump into the video streaming bandwagon in 2016 by pulling their content from Netflix and moving it to their brand new video-on-demand service called ''Blim''... but it backfired as the millenial crowd which was supposed to be their target market just ended up laughing in their faces on social media. And to add up, when Televisa removed their series from Netflix, the shares value of the latter ''increased'', with Netflix making fun of the absence of Televisa's content. And then, Telmex CEO Carlos Slim decided to undermine Televisa's [[AndZoidberg (and TV Azteca's)]] market share even further by purchasing exclusive broadcasting rights for the 2016 Rio Olympics and putting them up on his own video streaming service Clarovideo and pay-tv channel Claro Sports, as well as in public television networks (some from inside the country) and cable channels ESPN and FOX Sports, which ended up having a positive reception due to actually showcasing the Olympics instead of stale jokes and soccer, this also lasted during the 2018 [=PyeongChang=] Winter Olympics.

[[caption-width-right:350:The company that bought you loads of phenomenons. (that many)]]

Televisa is the largest Spanish-speaking media company (or if you decide to add up the other companies owned by Grupo Televisa or by any of the Azcárragas, a MegaCorp) was initially founded as Telesistema Mexicano in 1955, in Mexico City, by unifying three different channels under said banner and then exerting control over several smaller TV stations in the rest of Mexico as time went by. Its four over-the-air channels (those available without suscription to any cable company) are: