TIS Productions, commonly known as just TIS and formerly known as The Independent Studios, Estudios TeleMéxico, Fox TeleColombia and TeleColombia, is a Colombian

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company owned by the

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division of

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. Founded in 1996 by Samuel Duque, René Gómez and

Bernardo Romero Pereiro Bernardo Romero Pereiro (1944–2005) was a Colombian people, Colombian actor, director, and writer. He was the founder of Fox Telecolombia, Producciones Bernardo Romero Pereiro. He died at the age of 61 due to a respiratory failure. Extern ...

as a production company owned by the latter, who is also a claimed

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of Colombian dramatizations and soap operas, the company is known for supplying programming to

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, Telefutura,

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and the channels of the defunct former national broadcaster,

Inravisión The Instituto Nacional de Radio y Televisión (Inravisión) was Colombia's national public broadcasting organization between 1964 and 2004. It was created by Decree 3267 of 20 December 1963, which declared that from 1 April 1964 the country's pu ...

In 2007, the Fox International Channels (later the

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) division of the

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bought a 51% share in the company, thus renaming it as ''Fox Telecolombia''. In 2009, Fox produced filmed ''

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'', the first television series produced in Latin America for its eponymous American and international channels, at the Fox Telecolombia complex in

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, but it only lasted for a season. Following the completed acquisition of

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on 20 March 2019, Fox TeleColombia was placed under the direct supervision of

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. On 18 January 2021, Disney dropped the "Fox" word from the company's name, hence renaming it to just ''TeleColombia'', in line with the acquisition terms which required phasing out the "Fox" brand to avoid confusion with the spun-out

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. On 28 October 2021,

, at the time known as ''ViacomCBS'', announced its acquisition of a majority stake in the company from Disney, which closed on 23 November that year, thus changing sister stations to

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, while keeping the company's founders on board with their roles from a creative and advisory point of view. Paramount then merged Estudios TeleMexico and TeleColombia into one and reverted the latter company's name back to ''TIS'' (in homage to its founding name) on 22 October 2022.

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* Television production companies of Colombia {{Paramount Global Paramount Global subsidiaries Paramount International Networks 2021 mergers and acquisitions Entertainment companies of Colombia