Telemundo
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Telemundo logo used from December 8, 2012-present
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| Launched | June 19, 1984 |
| Owned by | NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises (NBCUniversal) |
| Picture format | |
| Slogan | La Television es el Rey (english: TV is king) |
| Country | |
| Language | Spanish |
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Hialeah, Florida |
| Formerly called | NetSpan (1984–87) |
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| Website | telemundo.com |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Affiliated with broadcast stations in many markets | List of affiliates |
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| Cable | |
| OTA affiliates available on certain U.S. cable systems | Consult your local cable provider or program station and provider |
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Consult your local cable provider or program listings source for channel availability |
| IPTV | |
| AT&T U-verse | 3007 (SD) (OTA affiliates available in certain markets) |
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| PlayStation Vue | Internet Protocol television |
Telemundo (Spanish pronunciation: [teleˈmundo]) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal division NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. It is the second largest provider of Spanish content worldwide behind American competitor Univision, with programming syndicated worldwide to more than 100 countries in over 35 languages.
The channel broadcasts programs and original content aimed at Hispanic and Latino American audiences in the United States and worldwide, consisting of telenovelas, sports, reality television, news programming, and films — either imported or Spanish-dubbed. In addition, Telemundo operates NBC Universo, a separate channel directed towards young Hispanic audiences; Telemundo Digital Media, which distributes original programming content across mass media, the Telemundo and NBC Universo websites; Puerto Rico telestation WKAQ-TV; and international distribution arm Telemundo Internacional.
Telemundo is headquartered in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, Florida, and has 1,900 employees worldwide. The majority of Telemundo's programs are filmed at an operated studio facility in Miami, where 85% of the network's telenovelas were filmed during 2011. The average hourly primetime drama costs $70K to produce.
The Telemundo brand traces back to the sign-on of WKAQ-TV (channel 2) in San Juan, Puerto Rico on March 28, 1954, which was founded by Ángel Ramos – owner of Puerto Rico's main newspaper at the time, El Mundo, and the U.S. territory's first radio station, WKAQ (also known as "Radio El Mundo"). Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding for his media properties based around the "mundo" theme (the Spanish word for "world"), and chose to brand his new television property as "Telemundo" (in effect, translating to "Teleworld" or "World TV"). Ramos had tried to obtain a television station license as early as the mid-1940s; however, because of a freeze imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that suspended the filing and approval of broadcast license applications for new television stations in the United States and its territories due to World War II, he had to wait until 1954 to obtain the license.
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