Telemundo Deportes
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| Network | NBC |
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| Launched | 1987 (as Deportes Telemundo) May 12, 2015 (as NBC Deportes) July 25, 2016 (as Telemundo Deportes) |
| Division of | NBC Sports Group |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Owner | Comcast |
| Key people | Eli Velazquez (executive vice president, Telemundo Deportes) Robert Pardo (Vice President of Production Operations, Telemundo Deportes) Claudio Prizont (Editorial Director, Telemundo Deportes) Christopher Suarez-Meyers (Director of Operations, Telemundo Deportes) Gary Zenkel (President, NBC Olympics and Operations, Strategy, NBC Sports Group Mark Lazarus (chairman, NBC Sports Group) |
| Headquarters |
Hialeah, Florida Stamford, Connecticut |
| Major broadcasting contracts |
FIFA World Cup FIFA Women's World Cup Olympics Premier League |
| Format | Sports programming |
| Original Language(s) | Spanish |
| Official website | www.telemundodeportes.com/ |
Telemundo Deportes is the programming division of the NBC Sports Group, owned by the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal, that is responsible for the production of sports events and magazine programs that air on NBCUniversal's Spanish language television networks Telemundo and NBC Universo. Originating as the former's sports division Deportes Telemundo from 1999 to 2015, it broadcasts an array of sports events, including the association football matches from various international soccer leagues and the Olympic Games, among others.
The division was originally formed in 1987 as Deportes Telemundo, which at first exclusively served as the sports division of Telemundo, with the acquisition of rights to soccer matches to select teams from the Mexican Primera División (now Liga MX). Following NBC's $2.7 billion purchase of Telemundo Communications Group on October 11, 2001, Deportes Telemundo began to gradually be integrated into NBC Sports, although it would maintain sports programming rights separate from the main NBC broadcast network and its sister cable channels. Under NBC (which ironically lost the rights to the league that year to ABC), On August 20, 2002, Telemundo signed a three-year agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Spanish language broadcast rights to 15 NBA and up to ten WNBA regular season games; Telemundo and the NBA did not renew the deal upon its expiration following the 2004–05 season.
On August 12, 2009, the division's production responsibilities were extended to sister cable network mun2 (now NBC Universo), when it carried an English language broadcast of a World Cup qualifier between the United States and Mexico national soccer teams, which was broadcast as part of a one-day free preview available to most cable and satellite providers though was presented by NBC Sports; and furthermore in January 2010, when mun2 began airing Liga MX games under the brand Fútbol Mexicano (most of which aired as English language simulcasts of Telemundo's Fútbol Estelar soccer telecasts).
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