Grupo Televisa, S.A.B.

Type	Sociedad Anónima Bursátil
Traded as	BMV: TLEVISA NYSE: TV
Industry	Mass media
Predecessor(s)	Telesistema Mexicano
Founded	1950
Founder(s)	Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta
Headquarters	Mexico City, Mexico
Key people	Emilio Azcárraga Jean, Gustavo Cisneros, Alfonso de Angoitia, Bernardo Gómez Martínez
Products	Broadcasting, cable TV, radio, publishing, Internet
Revenue	US$ 5.0 billion (2011)
Profit	US$ 556.0 million (2011)
Employees	24.362
Website	www.televisa.com

Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. is a Mexican multimedia mass media company and largest in Latin America^[1][2] and in the Spanish-speaking world.^[3] It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract. As of 2011, its closest competitors are TV Azteca (also in Mexico) and TVE (Spain).

History[link]

Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (founded in 1950), XEW-TV (1951) and XHGC-TV (1952). It was (and in modern-day Televisa still is) owned by the Azcárraga family from the Venezuelan Family Cisneros, who had signed on Mexico's first radio station, XEW-AM, in 1930. Its headquarters, known as Televicentro, were originally located on Avenida Chapultepec in downtown Mexico City. The building opened on February 10, 1952.

In 1968, Telesistema's main competitor, Televisión Independiente de México (TIM), started operating with XHTIM-TV and Canal 8. At the time, both Telesistema and TIM competed with XHAW-TV, local Canal 12, which also started transmissions in 1968. Over the next four years, both networks competed in content and image until September 17, 1972, when they merged, taking on the name Televisa, an acronym for Television Via Satellite in Spanish.^[4] In the merger deal, the owners of Telesistema had 75 percent of the stocks, while the owners of Televisión Independiente had the rest, which were sold to Telesistema later because of financial problems.

On September 7, 1970, "24 Horas" debuted and became one of Mexico's most watched news programs. The host, legendary journalist Jacobo Zabludovsky, anchored the program for almost 3 decades.

On August 17, 1972, Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta died, and Emilio Azcárraga Milmo succeeded him as the chain's owner.

In 1975, brothers Emilio Diez Barroso and Fernando Diez Barroso began working in the presidency offices of Televisa.

Televisa started to transmit several programs produced by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) (UNAM) in 1977. On March 3, 1983, Canal 8 changed their schedule to become a cultural channel, offering informative programs, debates and cultural shows, a precursor to today's Galavisión. On May 18, 1985 the frequency was changed to XEQ-TV, Canal 9.

On September 19, 1985, an earthquake measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale caused widespread damage in Mexico City and left the south tower of Televisa's main building destroyed. Nonetheless, Televisa's transmissions were not seriously affected. However, several material of dubbed TV shows were lost.

Televisa filming studio town in Chapultepec

In 1991, Televisa, with help from Japanese television network NHK, began its first broadcast in HDTV, using the Japanese MUSE system.

Between 1993 and 1994 Televisa was about to buy Italian local TV station GBR, based in Rome, planning to import in Italy his mixed sport-telenovelas formula, but the transaction was finally aborted.

In April 1997, Milmo died and Emilio Azcárraga Jean succeeded him as the president of the company.

In December 1997, Televisa joined with other Mexican media companies to create a marathon known as Teletón, whose mission is to provide knowledge about physical disabilities, giving a strong message about respect, equality and support to people in these conditions. This movement from media, enterprises and Mexicans is reflected in the buildings created with the money from this Marathon, named Centros de Rehabilitación Infantil (CRIT). It is said that sponsors use it as a way to deduce taxes as the Teletón takes place at the end of the fiscal year and therefore allows companies to deduce their donations before declaring their incomes.

Logo[link]

The famed Televisa logo comes from the original 1973 design by architect Patricio Ramírez Vázquez, re-designed in 2000 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Televisa: the logo represents a human eye looking at the world through a television screen. It keeps the original logo's yellow and orange colors that contrast with a dark blue background while the center of the logo is a sphere that represents the known contemporary world with its focus on communications, specifically television.

Televisa today[link]

Grupo Televisa is the second largest media conglomerate in Latin America behind Organizações Globo, with interests in television production and broadcasting, programming for pay television, international distribution of television programming, direct-to-home satellite services, publishing and publishing distribution, cable television, radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and show business promotions, paging services, feature film production and distribution, dubbing, and the operation of a horizontal Internet portal. Televisa's telenovelas generally run only one season and are broadcast internationally. The conglomerate is owner of some of the following companies:

• Comercio Más (Internet EsMas.com)
• Cablevisión (Mexico City only)
• Televisa Networks
• Estadio Azteca (Football Stadium)
• Club América (Football Team)
• Club Necaxa (Football Team)
• San Luis FC (Football Team)
• Atlante FC (Football Team)
• Editorial Televisa (Books, Magazines and Newspapers)
  • Vanidades
  • TVyNovelas
• Intermex (Editorial house)
• Televisa Radio (Formerly Radiopolis)
• Videocine (Movie production and distribution)
• Televisa Home Entertainment (DVD Distribution)
• EMI Televisa Músic (Record Label)
• EMI Latin (Record Label)
• Televisa Licencias (Merchandising)
• Televisa Digital (Internet)
• TuTV (HDTV Network in USA) (Sold to Univision)^[5]
• La Sexta (TV Channel in Spain)
• Más Fondos (Investment Group)
• Volaris (Airline) (Sold on July 16, 2010)^[6]
• Playcity Casino (Gambling)
• Multijuegos (Lotto)

In November 2006, an American embassy cable released through Wikileaks listed Cablevisión and Sky (both owned by Televisa), among "Mexico's monopolists", with control over a majority of Mexico's cable and satellite television, respectively.^[7]

Services[link]

Terrestrial networks[link]

Televisa provides programming throughout Mexico through four networks through local affiliates. 253 Mexican local television stations (54.8 % of the total commercial stations) air programming from all four terrestrial networks.^[8]
The four Televisa networks are:

Televisa beams Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, and Galavisión all over Mexico through satellite (much like the flagship stations in the United States) to affiliates. In addition, Televisa owns some Televisa-branded regional television stations, airing a mixture of Televisa programming and regional programming from all four Televisa terrestrial networks. FOROtv is the only network that only has one full-time affiliate, XHTV, but some of FOROtv's programming can be found on most Televisa Regional television stations.

Cable[link]

Televisa also operates a subsidiary called Televisa Networks (it's still often recognized within the entertainment industry by its previous moniker, Visat). This subsidiary is responsible for the distribution of Televisa programmes by satellite. It is Televisa Networks that distributes the Canal de las Estrellas signal through satellite to Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Other channels under the Televisa Networks umbrella include:

• American Network (HD) - features US programs from different networks associated with Televisa.
• Bandamax - a Banda, Norteño and Regional Mexican music station.
• Canal de las Estrellas (HD) (Channel Of The Stars) - General Programming, Soap Operas, News and Sports.
• Golden and Golden Edge (HD) - movie service, showcasing Hollywood blockbusters and other films.
• Clásico TV - Shows popular TV shows from the past, specially sitcoms and children shows.
• De Película - Mexican film channel focused in newest movies.
• De Película Clásico - Mexican film channel focused in old movies.
• Ritmoson Latino - a Spanish language music videos station focused in tropical music (salsa, bachata, reggaetton, etc.)
• TL Novelas - a network devoted to classic telenovelas (soap operas).
• TeleHit - a channel devoted to pop music and comedic shows that usually are not safe secure to be shown in open TV.
• Televisa Deportes Network (HD) - Sports Channel that is often distributed in premium cable services. Shows European soccer leagues (France and Spain) and tournaments of sports not so popular in Mexico.
• Unicable - features programming by Univision and Originals Productions.

Featured Channels

• Telemundo Latin America - features programming by Telemundo
• BBC Entertainment Latin America - features programming by BBC
• CBeebies Latin America - features programming by CBeebies of BBC

Televisa also operates Televisa Radio, under the brand name of "W Radio México"; it is primarily a news and talk station.

Televisa operated Noticias ECO, a 24-hour news channel, between 1988 and 2001.

It operated Galavisión Europa, features programming by Televisa and Univision, the channel name was changed in 2006 and is now Canal de las Estrellas in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Controversy[link]

Defamation[link]

Due to Televisa having multiple and diverse areas of bussiness investment, (and even politics) around the country, Latin America and the U.S., it has been often accussed of airing misleading information about individuals or organizations in which may exist a conflict of interest. Many remember the famous phrase from the founder of Televisa Emilio Azcarraga Milmo referring to himself as a "soldier of P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institucional)" a longtime ruling party in Mexico; however, with the arrival of his son to the head of the network, there was the promise to cut all political ties whit that party and others, this has been widely disputed, along with their impartiality when it comes to their economical interests in diverse bussiness areas.^[9]

May 2012 Rallies[link]

On May 19 2012 a series of rallies ran across the country (D.F., Guadalajara, Monterrey, Pachuca, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Jalapa, Colima, and others), these rallies were called "Marchas Anti-Peña" (Rallies Against-Peña) aside from claiming their dislike of Enrique Peña Nieto (the political candidate of PRI party), their protest was also against the coverage of news shows relating to this candidate (mainly political opinion show Tercer Grado), claiming that Televisa is helping this candidate to win the forecoming election, and that their intense coverage of his person when dispatched as the Governor of Estado de Mexico, helped him positioning as the No. 1 in opinion polls. There were even rallies outside of Televisa San Angel (Televisa headquarters) where some of them, however, were allowed by reporters of Televisa itself to show their points of view on a nationwide telecast.^[10]

Televisa vs. Grupo Reforma[link]

In 2011 Televisa started airing a series of reports concerning to publication of classifieds on newspapers from Grupo Reforma (a large holding of bussineses that includes newspapers, online news and others) of women offering sex service, often offered as massage serice, escort service, etc. implying these could led to several crimes like person trafficking, sexual slavery, kidnapping of women and others (altought prostitution laws in Mexico are very ambiguos); this happened even those classifieds are published on a wide range of newspapers around the country. Analysts says this was a retaliation against Grupo Reforma for their extense coverage to the affair of their star news anchor Carlos Loret de Mola, all of this, however, as a retaliation itself to the fact that Televisa obtained licenses to provide wireless services for third and fourth generation in a partnership with communications giant Nextel.^[11]

Televisa vs. Carlos Slim Helu (Telmex)[link]

In 2011, Televisa started airing reports concerning to an allegedly monopoly of Telmex and America Movil (telcel) on national cellular phone service and claiming that customer were being overcharged; also claiming that fees to interconnect to existing cellular grid and infraestructure to third parties were excessive high. This fight occurred when both companies were trying to obtain from the Federal Government the rights to offer to customers "Triple Play" which means that one carrier could provide cellular service, television and internet in one full package. However, this matter resulted on interminable courtroom fights between both parties and the decisionhas been delayed so far.^[12]

Televisa vs. Pablo Salazar Mendiguchia[link]

In 2011 Televisa started airing an extense coverage to the arrest and incarceration of Chiapas ex-governor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchia, accused of several crimes, this coverage was prolongued and very extense. In an interview with journalist Carmen Aristegui, famed writer and analyst Rafael Loret de Mola in some degree accepted that maybe a political prosecution was happening, but that his main concern was that he had (and showed on air) a legal document in which Adela Micha Zaga (a news anchor with Televisa) gives legal power to then ex-governor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchia (also a lawyer) to act as an inmobiliary agent to sell a condo she possesed a few years ago. His concern was about a "perverse" relation between Salazar and Televisa journalists.^[13]

Televisa vs. Issac Saba Raffoul[link]

In 2010, Televisa (along with competitor TV Azteca) began airing a series of reports in their news shows in which they claimed that bussinessman Isaac Saba Raffoul hold a monopoly in the field of pharmaceulticals distribution along the country with their enterprise Grupo Saba, those affirmattions occurred as a consecuence of the bussiness partnership between Isaac Saba Raffoul and General Electric to become the third national television network. This partnership, in the potential case of becoming successful in acquiring rights from the Federal Government to transmit along the country, would have diminished the tv market share of Televisa and TV Azteca.^[14][15]

Televisa vs. Santiago Creel Miranda[link]

In 2008, the approval of a series of laws that would enable the Federal Instutite of Elections (IFE) to buy in exclusive airtime for political campaigns on tv networks, radio and newspapers for all political parties, that would undermine the economical revenue of Televisa and TV Azteca in marketing political candidates to public election posts, led to the virtual "disappearance" in news shows and other programming of Televisa network (along with TV Azteca)as a retaliation to Santiago Creel Miranda and others lawmakers (senadores) of all political parties involved in the approval of these laws.^[16][17]

Televisa vs. Francisco Ibarra and Emilio Maurer[link]

Long before 1991, Televisa hold a strong control over the Mexican Federation of Football Soccer (Federacion Mexicana de Futbol) in which they had participation with the ownership of two teams (Club America and Club Necaxa). However, that year a rival group took control over the federation with Francisco Ibarra as the acting President and Emilio Maurer as Secretary, both of whom started a series of changes concerning mainly to the administration of a poll of money earned in sponsorships of the National Soccer Team; this fight resulted in a prosecution through varios tv channels owned by the network resulting in Ibarra and Maurer being expelled from the Federation, even Maurer being incarcerated. Rumours of then President of Mexico Carlos Salinas de Gortari being involved in this prosecution began to circulate, however this was never confirmed.^[18][19]

Televisa and Univision[link]

Televisa has an ongoing relation with the US Univision network, stemming back to the 1960s, when Univision's predecessor, the Spanish International Network (SIN), was owned by Telesistema Mexicano, Televisa's predecessor. In 1986, Televisa became embroiled in a scandal with the SIN network news. The management wanted to produce and broadcast a newscast with Jacobo Zabludosky out of Miami. Half of the staff walked out of their jobs alleging Jacobo Zabludosky was a puppet of the Mexican Government who had soft views with Castro's Cuba. The Televisa management was dumbfounded, they decided to move the now renamed Univision Network's HQ to Laguna Niguel, outside of Los Angeles to produce their shows from there including their beleaguered news division. They returned to Miami two years later.

Televisa has been a longtime provider of programming to Univision and its sister networks. However, in recent years, Televisa's relationship with Univision has become strained. It was involved in a dispute with Univisión over the censoring and editing of its programming as well as non-payment for transmission of its programming to Univisión's Galavisión and Telefutura networks. In one editing incident, an episode of Con Todo was not shown on Galavisión due to a host appearing in blackface, and the show did not return to the cable station for two years. A breach of contract lawsuit against Univisión by Televisa has also been filed.

When Univisión came up for sale, a group including Televisa inquired about taking an up to 25% ownership stake (the maximum allowed by US law for a foreign buyer). However, a group of U.S. private equity firms eventually won Univision.

Televisa is also the former owner of Fonovisa music, which it sold in 2001 to Univision. Fonovisa is now owned by Universal Music (UMLE).

In October, 2010, Televisa agreed to take a 5% stake in Univision, which it can grow in the future, and to extend and expand the companies' long-term program license agreement. The new program license agreement will include Internet and mobile rights and cover key Mexican football (soccer) rights. The agreement will run through at least 2020, but more likely 2025 or later, compared with the previous deal's 2017 expiration.^[20]

Televisa and Telemundo make deal[link]

On March 18, 2008, Televisa and NBC Universal announced an 10-year multiplatform agreement that would allow 1000 hours of Telemundo programming from news, entertainment programs / specials, and sports to be broadcast over not only its Galavision channel (XEQ-TV), but also its SKY Channel and Cablevision cable system starting in April, as well as a planned Telemundo pay TV channel to be launched later in 2008. Marketingymedios On May 19, 2009 Telemundo and Televisa sent out announcement that the joint owned network will come together in August 2009. The network launched in August and is available on cable and satellite.

Purchase of Nextel Mexico operations[link]

In January 2010, Televisa announced an offer to acquire NII Holdings (Nextel International). On February 11 Mexico's Federal Competition Commission approved a 20 percent purchase of NII stock, with the operation valued at US$1.6 billion dollars. However, they later ended the agreement^[21][22][23]

See also[link]

• Canal de las Estrellas
• FOROtv
• Canal 5
• Galavision
• List of programs broadcast by Televisa
• List of Broadcasting Companies in Latin America
• Telemundo
• Univision

References[link]

External links[link]

• (Spanish) Televisa website
• (Spanish) Esmas, Televisa's Internet portal

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Carmen Aristegui

Carmen Aristegui (b. January 18, 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican journalist born in Mexico City. She graduated from Mexico's Universidad Nacional Autónoma with a degree in communication sciences. She is the anchor of the news program Aristegui at CNN en Español and until recently did the morning news program on MVS Radio 102.5 FM of Mexico City.

Carmen Aristegui has almost 16 years of experience as an anchor and reporter on leading radio and television programs in Mexico.

In radio, she has participated in MVS's Para Empezar ("To Begin With") W Radio's Hoy X Hoy ("Nowadays") and Grupo Imagen's Imagen Informativa (Informative Image). On television, at MVS's En Blanco y Negro ("Black and White") and Círculo Rojo ("Red Circle") on Televisa, "Primer Plano" on Canal 11 and "Noticias Canal 52, with Javier Solorzano."

Carmen Aristegui is recognized as an expert on national politics. For over five years, Aristegui hosted the Federal Electoral Institute's special political programming. In 1997, she also acted as an advisor to a civic group involved in the first election for the head of government in the Mexican Republic's capital.

Aristegui has received the Mexican Press Club's "National Award" in 2001, 2002, and 2004, and in 2003 she was recognized as the "Best National Anchor" and presented with a Public Image Award. She was also named "2004 Woman of the Year" by Mont Blanc, and was selected to carry the Olympic Torch through Mexico as part of its global journey to Athens that same year. In 2005, Aristegui received recognition from the National Institute of Indigenous Languages for her promotion of the indigenous languages of Mexico.

In 2008, she received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize.

In February 2011, her contract with MVS Radio was terminated, a move seen by protesters as authoritarian.

She was reinstated a few days after without any official statement by MVS Radio.

Return to FM radio[link]

MVS Radio and Carmen Aristegui reached an agreement in early 2009 to start a new radio show on the broadcaster's Noticias frequency. The daily show from 6:00 to 10:00 AM deals with issues in much more depth than her twenty-minute TV show for CNN. Guests on this program include various Mexican political figures, such as Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Roberto Madrazo Pintado, and several senators and governors. The show was also the platform for the release of an interview with former president Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado in which he stated his disappointment in his successor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, because of the latter's family's corruption and links to drug cartels.

On 7 February 2011 her contract with MVS was terminated over a news report in which she invites president Calderón to respond to accusations of alcoholism made by political opponents waving a banner in the Chamber of Deputies.^[1] MVS, on a brief statement said "no news are made by rumors, our ethics code was broken, so our relationship with reporter Aristegui was terminated". She was reinstated a few days after without any official statement by MVS Radio or Aristegui. ^[2]

External links[link]

• Carmen Aristegui profile at CNN.com
• A case study on Aristegui's dismissal in 2011, The University of Oxford
• AristeguiNoticias, her news site

References[link]

Carlos Loret de Mola Álvarez (b. October 17, 1976 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican journalist. He is a popular news anchor in Mexico, hosting a show called Primero Noticias (1: N) on Televisa channel 2, as well as a news radio show "Back" on Radio Formula.^[1][2]

He has appeared as a guest on the Spanish-language version of Sesame Street called Plaza Sesamo, in season 10.^[3][4]

Bibliography[link]

• El Negocio: La economía de México atrapada por el narcotráfico (2002). Roughly translated as, "The Business: Mexico's economy caught in the drug trade".

External links[link]

• Carlos Loret de Mola at the Internet Movie Database
• Carlos Loret de Mola en EsMas.com

References[link]

1. ^ "Conductores: Carlos Loret de Mola". EsMas.com. http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/conductores/290199.html. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
2. ^ "Twitter feed for Carlos Loret de Mola". Twitter. http://twitter.com/carlosloret. Retrieved 18 April 2011. "Biography reads as: Periodista, conductor de los informativos Primero Noticias en Televisa (6-9am, Canal 2) y Contraportada en Radio Fórmula (6-8 pm 104.1FM)." 
3. ^ "Plaza Sésamo, notable guest stars". Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_S%C3%A9samo#Notable_guest_stars. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 
4. ^ "Muppet Wiki: Carlos Loret de Mola". http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Carlos_Loret_de_Mola. Retrieved 18 April 2011. 

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Eugenio Derbez
Eugenio Derbez, 2012
Born	Eugenio González Derbez Yule[citation needed] (1962-09-02) September 2, 1962 (age 49) Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Comedian, actor

Eugenio González Derbez (born September 2, 1962) is a Mexican actor of film and comedy television.^[1] He created the television series of XHDRBZ, Vecinos, and La familia P. Luche. Derbez is also a Formula Three Auto racing driver.

Life and career[link]

Derbez was born in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico, the son of actress Silvia Derbez and publicist Eugenio González Salas. His maternal grandfather was French. Derbez developed an early childhood interest in acting. He made his television debut at twelve, acting as an extra in a telenovela. Derbez kept acting during his school years and took his first formal acting class at age 19. Derbez began his acting career in the theater. During the early 1980s, Derbez was a regular in Cachun, Cachun, Ra, Ra!, a Mexican television show. He also participated in En Familia con Chabelo, a children's television show.

In 1988 Derbez got his first recurring television position when he played a number of roles in a comedy show called "Anabel". In 1987, he briefly worked in a television series named Tal Como Somos ("Just The Way we Are"). In 1990, he played Eugenio in the comedy film Transplante a la Mexicana ("Mexican Style Transplant"). That same year he participated in Fotógrafo de Modelos ("Models Photographer"). Derbez kept making movies during the 1990s. In 1992 he began hosting the variety show Al Derecho y al Derbez.

In 1997 Derbez made his directing debut in a soap opera named No Tengo Madre ("I Don't Have a Mother"). In 1999 Derbez started a new show, "Derbez en Cuando". Derbez appeared in Carita de Angel in 2000. He also starred that year in Cómplices al Rescate ("Accomplices to the Rescue"), a teenage-themed telenovela. Derbez produced, in 2003, a television series named XHDRBZ. He later produced Hospital el Paisa ("Countrymen Hospital") and Vecinos ("Neighbors"). He also had acting roles in XHDrbz and Vecinos.

He was the leading man in La familia P. Luche, about a family whose possessions are made entirely of plush. He plays Ludovico P. Luche. The show is a spin-off of a segment of his variety show, XHDRBZ. In 2004 he appeared on Adal Ramones show, Otro Rollo, and in 2005, Derbez was the host of Univision's Premio Lo Nuestro ceremony. In 2006 Derbez directed a play titled La bella y la muy bestia by Mariano Moro at Repertorio Espanol in New York.

Derbez starred in La Misma Luna, also known as Under the Same Moon, alongside Adrian Alonso and Kate del Castillo.

In 2010 Derbez directed and hosted Latin Grammy along with Lucero. Derbez has remained active in theater plays as well, appearing in the Broadway play Latinologues.

In 2011 Derbez starred in Jack and Jill as Felipe which also starred Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes and Al Pacino.

In 2012 Derbez started the sitcom series ¡Rob! with the actor Rob Schneider

He has bought a number of Formula 1 racing cars, which he has used to compete at various races.

He also plays the role of "Donkey" in Shrek in Spanish.

References[link]

External links[link]

• esmas.com, in Spanish
• Eugenio Derbez at the Internet Movie Database

Sara Carbonero
Born	(1984-02-03) 3 February 1984 (age 28) Corral de Almaguer, Toledo, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Occupation	Television presenter and sports journalist

Sara Carbonero Arévalo^[1] (born 3 February 1984^[2] in Corral de Almaguer, Toledo) is a Spanish TV presenter for Telecinco and sports journalist.^[3]