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Televisa is a Mexican media company, founded by Emilio Azcárraga Milmo on January 8, 1973 with a fusion of two companies from Mexico City. Televisa is the largest commercial TV network in Mexico and the largest commercial TV network of Spanish-Speaking World. In the United States, Televisa has an exclusive contract with Univision.
Telesistema Mexicano
1955-1973
Televisa began as Telesistema Mexicano on March 26th, 1955 by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and Ernesto Barrientos Reyes; TSM had three national channels. Before the 1973 merge, the logo showed as a curve simulating the letter "S" with the letter "T" together in the top left, and the "M" was next to the curve.
Televisión Independiente de México
1968–1973
Another company named Televisión Independiente de México was originally founded as as a one channel in 1968. The logo consisted as the T, I and M letters were merged into a single form, and the white circle covered the letter I letting two remaining letters.
Televisa
Both Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México were fused into a single broadcasting company, and rebranded as Televisión Vía Satélite or better known as Televisa on January 8, 1973, using the same name of the defunct Venezuelan TV channel which today is Venevisión. By the merge Televisa has four national Mexican channels.
1973–2000
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This was the first logo with the eye symbol inspiration from CBS making as an orange oval broken into ten lines with the sun in the scenery. The eye logo was designed by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, symbolizing as the spectator's vision to watch the world throughout the television.
1973-1980
The 1973 logo was with wordmark using as a separated name as "Tele Visa" that was stacked without the letter "I". The letter "T" was a two striped cross unified with the letter "V" and "I" as the letter "t" in lowercase.
1981–1990
The wordmark was discontinued in 1981, and the empty space of the sun was colored yellow. This logo was still used as a secondary variation, seen in some idents until 2001.
1990-2000
In 1990, the wordmark was added to the 1981 logo.
1998-2000
In 1998, the logo was given a three dimensional look, and the lines through the "sun" took off. It was used only on Televisa Deportes and Noticieros Televisa as a blue logo.
2001–present
Televisa launched a new logo on January 1st, 2001, reduced eight scanlines of ten, and it's similar to the previous logo, just the frequent changes from the next two logos.
2001–2016
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Changes include the sun now being a 3D sphere, which in turn making the logo an eye, and the wordmark was Helvetica Black.
2016–present
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On January 16th, 2016, a refresh of the previous logo removes the "pupil" part and it's now a single flat color. In 2021, Televisa announced that it will sell its entertainment assets to Univision Communications. The sale is excepted to close at the end of that same year. The new company will be known as Televisa-Univision.
