- published: 20 May 2016
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Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. is a Mexican multimedia mass media company and largest in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. 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).
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. 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.
Maybe I'am a dreamer
Maybe just a fool
Lately I can hardly see the sun
If you had a secret
I could take a guess
But nothin' in your eyes seems to hold me
Truth or consequences
Which one will be?
(*) Someone said
That time would ease the pain
Of two lives love has torn apart
But I believe whoever wrote that song
Never had a broken heart
One of us is hidin'
One of us can tell
And no one likes to be the first to know
Someone has to answer
'Cause someone has to ask
If keepin' on like this is torture
And goin' undecided
You know, is twice as bad for sure
Repeat (*)
No, I can't believe it's over
It's over
And I love you more than ever
And ever