Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers , and . It is primarily owned by the Italian holding RCS MediaGroup.

History

Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup) and . Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers '' Marca'', and the magazines '' Actualidad Económica'' and '' Telva''. Unedisa was the publisher of , founded in 1989 by Pedro J. Ramírez. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión (owned by Unedisa) had been also conceded one of the two new DTT licenses granted by People's Party government. Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial. In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a takeover by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the

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banking group.

Holdings

Newspapers

In 2006, the share of the newspapers controlled by the founding companies was 10% in the Spanish press market. * * (business newspaper) * (sports newspaper) *''El Cronista'' (

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Magazines

*'' Actualidad Económica'' (business magazine) *''NBA'' *''Arte''

Television

Unidad Editorial is the owner of . Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.

Radio

* (sports radio)

Ownership

Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.

References

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External links

* Spanish companies established in 2007 Mass media companies of Spain Newspaper companies Publishing companies of Spain RCS MediaGroup Mass media companies established in 2007 Spanish subsidiaries of foreign companies {{publish-corp-stub