TeleFutura
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Telefutura is a Spanish-language television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.
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The network started on January 14, 2002 a month behind Telemundo's launch of its second network, the bilingual mun2, with programs such as the 3 hour gossip/Entertainment show Escándalo TV, designed to compete with similar offerings like Cotorreando from NBC Universal's Telemundo. The Spanish channel often has their commercials on Univision.
Most of the stations that carry Telefutura once aired the Home Shopping Network. Univision bought the stations from Barry Diller's USA Broadcasting late in 2001.
Telefutura has in its programming Venezuelan telenovelas from Coral Productions, RCTV, and game shows from Televisa and Venevision. The network also airs movies (mainly recent American releases dubbed into Spanish), boxing, Futbol Liga Mexicana broadcasts, news (including Contacto deportivo) and game shows including their FIRST game show "Que Dice La Gente?" (literally, What are people saying?) based on the popular "Family Feud",it should be noted that this telefutura produced Miami based game show is based on the defunct Televisa TV game show "100 Mexicanos Dijeron",and is also hosted by Marco Antonio Regil
In late 2005, Telefutura started a newscast at 7pm called En Vivo y Directo, opposite the taped 4pm news on Galavision). But the network pulled the plug on "En Vivo y Directo" due to low ratings after only a few weeks and have replaced the newscast with movies.
There were rumors that Tribune Company would buy Telefutura from Univision Communications and creating duopolies in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Miami and Sacramento. [citation needed] As of 2006, this has not occurred.
Telefutura is also a part of the Spanish-language coverage of the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament, as Univision owns exclusive US Spanish-language rights. For 2006 it carried eight live games, all in the last days of group play when games are played simultaneously, like ESPN2 did with ESPN for English-language coverage. It also had game replays and recap shows.
In late June 2006, Univision was sold to an investment group including entertainment industry veteran Haim Saban for $13 billion, there are reports on media message boards that Telefutura is being phased out and several key on air talents are being shifted to Univision and Galavision channels.
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