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Duro Y Directo
''Duro Y Directo'' was a Mexican tabloid news magazine that aired on Televisa from 1997 to 1999. The program was presented by Fernando del Rincón. Overview As a replacement to its predecessor, ''Fuera de la Ley'', ''Duro y Directo'' was launched in November 1997, on XEQ-TV. Its format was a true crime news magazine, focusing on the criminal crisis in Mexico. In such rare instances, viewers were given the opportunity to call the program for emergency help, before calling emergency services. Reporters would also go to the scene of emergency and provide assistance. During its run, ''Duro y Directo'' garnered at 12-point rating average, making it the most watched news magazine in Mexico at the time. Its highest viewership was received for its coverage of the death of Paco Stanley. Because of its popularity, ''Duro y Directo'' was also broadcast in the United States on Univision, from September 1998. Criticism Despite being a popular program in Mexico, politicians and some members of ...
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Fernando Del Rincón
Fernando López del Rincón (Morelos, Mexico, 18 August 1969) is a Mexican television presenter who is well known throughout Latin America and by the Latino community in the U.S. He has worked at both Telemundo and Univision, and since 2010 has been employed by CNN en Español, based in Atlanta, Georgia. He hosts that network's prime-time newscast ''Panorama USA'' and also serves as main anchor and producer of ''Conclusiones''. Originally widely branded as a "pretty boy" who was offered acting jobs on telenovelas, del Rincón later did hard-hitting journalism about drug trafficking and other subjects that resulted in death threats. In 2014, del Rincón was accused by Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, of broadcasting reports that encouraged civil unrest in that country. Del Rincón has twice been named by the magazine People en Español as the best Spanish-speaking news anchor in the U.S. He has been accused of domestic abuse by his ex-wife, Carmen Dominicci. Early ...
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Televisa
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa announced that they would sell the company's media and entertainment assets to Univision Communications, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on 31 January 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (fo ...
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Nueve (Mexican TV Network)
Nueve (English: Nine) (stylized Nu9ve) is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The primary station and network namesake is Channel 9 of Mexico City (also known by its call sign XEQ-TDT), though the network has nationwide coverage on Televisa stations and some affiliates. Nueve offers a range of general entertainment programs. History The roots of Nueve go back to the foundation of Televisión Independiente de México, the first serious contender to Telesistema Mexicano. In 1973, the two companies merged to form Televisión Vía Satélite, better known as Televisa (now known as TelevisaUnivision Mexico). After years of broadcasting primarily cultural programs, channel 9 in Mexico City returned to commercial programming in the mid-1990s, under the name Galavisión. This Galavisión was unrelated to the American cable channel of the same name, also owned by TelevisaUnivision. On April 15, 2013, Galavisión changed its name to Gala TV. Gal ...
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Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes telenovelas and other drama series, sports, sitcoms, reality and variety series, news programming, and imported Spanish-language feature films. Univision is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and has its major studios, production facilities, and business operations based in Doral, Florida (near Miami). Univision is available on pay television providers throughout most of the United States, with local stations in over 60 markets with large Latin American communities. Most of these stations air full local newscasts and other local programming in addition to network shows; in major markets such as Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City, the local newscasts carried by the network's owned-and-operated st ...
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Gala TV (Mexico)
Nueve (English: Nine) (stylized Nu9ve) is a Mexican free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The primary station and network namesake is Channel 9 of Mexico City (also known by its call sign XEQ-TDT), though the network has nationwide coverage on Televisa stations and some affiliates. Nueve offers a range of general entertainment programs. History The roots of Nueve go back to the foundation of Televisión Independiente de México, the first serious contender to Telesistema Mexicano. In 1973, the two companies merged to form Televisión Vía Satélite, better known as Televisa (now known as TelevisaUnivision (Mexico), TelevisaUnivision Mexico). After years of broadcasting primarily cultural programs, channel 9 in Mexico City returned to commercial programming in the mid-1990s, under the name Galavisión. This Galavisión was unrelated to Galavisión, the American cable channel of the same name, also owned by TelevisaUnivision. On April 15, 2013, Galavisi ...
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Paco Stanley
Francisco Jorge Stanley Albaitero (3 July 1942 – 7 June 1999), known by his stage name Paco Stanley, was a Mexican television entertainer who worked for Televisa and TV Azteca. He also participated directly, for a time, in political activities in his country, as he was a member of the PRI. Early years He was born in Mexico City on July 3, 1942, son of Francisco Stanley Muñoz and Josefina Albaitero Vivanco; He was baptized on August 8 of the same year. Career Stanley began his career in radio in 1969. From 1974, he appeared in television programs like XEW News. For this network, he hosted the show ''Sonrisas y sorpresas''. After years of being a sidekick to comedians such as Madaleno, in 1991 he was offered his own show on Televisa, ''¡Ándale!'', with Arlette Garibay and Benito Castro. Later television work included ''Llévatelo'' and ''Pácatelas'' with Mario Bezares. In 1998, he hosted the show ''Un poco de Paco en radio'' in its comic version. He left Telev ...
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Orlando Sentinel
The ''Orlando Sentinel'' is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States. It was founded in 1876 and is currently owned by Tribune Publishing Company. The ''Orlando Sentinel'' is owned by parent company, '' Tribune Publishing''. Tribune Publishing was acquired in May 2021 by a hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media. The newspaper's website utilizes geo-blocking, making it inaccessible from European countries. History The ''Sentinel''s predecessors date to 1876, when the ''Orange County Reporter'' was first published. The ''Reporter'' became a daily newspaper in 1905, and merged with the ''Orlando Evening Star'' in 1906. Another Orlando paper, the ''South Florida Sentinel'', started publishing as a morning daily in 1913. Then known as the ''Morning Sentinel'', it bought the ''Reporter-Star'' in 1931, when Martin Andersen came to Orlando to manage both papers. Ander ...
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Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León (; born 27 December 1951) is a Mexican economist and politician. He was the 61st president of Mexico from 1994 to 2000, as the last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of Mexican presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Father of Modern Democracy in Mexico, his non-interventionist policy yielded transparent results on the 2000 Mexican general election. During his presidency, he faced one of the Mexican peso crisis, worst economic crises in Mexico's history, which started only weeks after taking office. While he distanced himself from his predecessor Carlos Salinas de Gortari, blaming his administration for the crisis, and overseeing the arrest of Salinas' brother Raúl Salinas de Gortari, he continued the Neoliberalism, neoliberal policies of his two predecessors. His administration was also marked by renewed clashes with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN and the Popular Revolutionary Army; the controversial impleme ...
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1990s Mexican Television Series
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing The Battle of Yijing was a military conflict which took place in northern China from 198 to 199 in the late Eastern Han dynasty. It was fought between Gongsun Zan, a warlord known as the "White Horse General", and Yuan Shao, a scion of the es ...: Chinese warlord ...
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