Univision Acquires Grupo Televisa Assets For $4.8 Billion And The Two Companies Create Global Spanish-Language Media Entity

Spanish-language media giant Univision Communications, which recently unveiled a $4.8 billion deal to combine media, production and content assets with Mexico's Televisa, has unveiled financial metrics and preliminary first quarter results as it considers potential financing transactions and market opportunities.

Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, John Malone's international cable giant, saw his overall pay package for 2020 shrink to $44.9 million, compared to a pay packet of $123.2 million in 2019 that was part of a front end-loaded, multi-year compensation package. The $123.2 million overall compensation package for 2019, part of a new five-year contract renewal, included a multi-year remuneration target, certain levels of stock appreciation and amounts aggregated into a single year lump amount.

Katy Perry, 36, and Orlando Bloom, 44, took in a fun activity with their eight-month-old daughter Daisy on Apr. 29 and it was so sweet to see! The doting parents enjoyed a bike ride in Santa Barbara, CA with the tot while dressed in stylishly casual clothing. The actor had the baby girl safely seated on the front of his bike while the singer happily rode behind them on her own bike.

Angelique Jackson After her breakthrough role in “Queen and Slim,” Jodie Turner-Smith is taking on her next major challenge: playing a military officer opposite Michael B. Jordan in “Without Remorse” and a condemned queen in the upcoming series “Anne Boleyn.”Turner-Smith had just wrapped filming on “Queen & Slim” when she booked “Without Remorse,” which centers on Navy SEAL John Kelly (Jordan), one of the most famous characters in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan universe.

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John Travolta is opening up about life after Kelly Preston‘s death.

Mexican thriller series Who Killed Sara? has become Netflix’s most popular non-English language title ever with an estimated 55M subscribers tuning in since its launch last month.

SAG-AFTRA has launched a Spanish-language version of its website as part of a broader organizational effort to increase engagement with its thousands of Spanish-speaking members. The new website is also designed to support the union’s organizing efforts in the growing Spanish-language market.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorThe union of Mexico’s Televisa and Univision has been considered by both sides for decades.

Newly unveiled Televisa-Univision is heading worldwide to beat out Spanish-language pay TV rivals in what top executives see as a largely untapped global market beyond the U.S. and Mexico.

Televisa and Univision executives said a new global OTT service to launch early next year will roll up their current streaming offerings — including Prende TV, Vix and Blim — and that its content won’t overlap with Univision’s linear networks.

Christina Aguilera has revealed that she is working on two new albums - an English language record and a Spanish one.

Two of the biggest Spanish-language media companies in the world are planning to merge. Mexico's Televisa and Univision are set to combine media, production and content into a new company to be called Televisa-Univision, the two announced Tuesday.

Katy Perry may be engaged to Miranda Kerr‘s ex-husband, but there was nothing but love between the two women while they filmed a joint Instagram Live session on April 13. It was actually Katy’s idea to reunite virtually; the 36-year-old pop star said she “stopped” Miranda in her “tracks” after using the model’s KORA Organics’ Turmeric Glow Moisturizer, and insisted they film together to promote the new product.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorUnivision and Televisa have come to terms on a merger agreement, a long-awaited deal that will create a Spanish-language TV giant with broad reach in Mexico and the U.S.The deal calls for Televisa to contribute its media, content and production assets and a handful of networks to a new entity to be known as Televisa-Univision. Televisa’s assets are valued at $4.8 billion.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSister has acquired “Never Far Away,” the new novel from bestselling author Michael Koryta, and will develop it as a feature film. Oscar-winning producer Cathy Schulman, who previously oversaw “Crash,” will produce the thriller for the company.

Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry are enjoying their new parenthood phase but looks like the Pirates Of The Carribean actor has too many to-do lists on the home front to check. Recently, Katy Perry who returned as a judge on American Idol, dropped a stunning photo of herself.

The market for dramas, non-fiction and comedy shows produced outside the U.S.— growing steadily for years — has gotten a super-charged kick thanks to U.S.-based streamers, which have pumped cash into new originals from Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMicrosoft said it clinched a deal to buy Nuance Communications, a pioneering voice-recognition tech company, in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion, inclusive of Nuance’s net debt.It would be the second-biggest acquisition for Microsoft behind its $26 billion deal for Linkedin in 2016.Microsoft expects the deal to close in calendar year 2021, subject to approval by Nuance’s shareholders, regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.Microsoft said