Cisneros Media

Cisneros Media (CMD), also known as Venevision International (VVI), is an American-based entertainment company that broadcasts Spanish-language television worldwide.

History

Venevision International is part of the Cisneros Group of Companies. It was founded initially as the distribution company.

CMD is currently headed by Peter Tinoco. The company opened its doors in 1969 under the name Teverama Florida, along with Radio Caracas Television as distributors of Venezuelan programming abroad. After a split from RCTV (which formed Coral Pictures), it was renamed America Television Inc. In 1987, the company took the current name of Venevision International.

VVI is one of the two largest companies that distributes Spanish-language television programming. The company has a diverse programming catalogue, with an emphasis on the telenovela genre.

In 1992, as part of a consortium of American businessman Jerry Perenchio, Mexican entrepreneur Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, and Grupo Cisneros through Venevisión International bought Univision for $500 million. Grupo Cisneros held a 25% stake in Univision and 12.5% stake in the Univision Communications (now TelevisaUnivision). The Grupo Cisneros' ownership stake in Univision led to the broadcast of Venevision telenovelas from Venezuela, and to the co-production of telenovelas by the partnership of Venevision International and Univision Communications. The consortium ended up selling Univision for $13.7 billion in 2007.

VVI presently supports exchange agreements and sales of TV programming in China and South Korea, where telenovelas are popular. Beginning in 2000, the company sought to diversify its catalogue with original productions, and to participate in the profitable Hispanic market in the United States.

In television production, CMD was a pioneer in independent television production in Spanish in the city of Miami and one of the main companies of this segment in the industry.

CMD founded the first exclusive, Spanish-language film distribution company in the United States. It released movies in cinemas and on pay-per-view, pay television, home video, the hospitality industry (hotels and tourism) and the Internet. It has participated in a renewed interest in Latin American cinema in the US market.

As part of the Cisneros Group of Companies, the company has been launched TV channels. Based on its film catalogue in Spanish, the company launched its pay TV movie channel "VeneMovies" in 2006: a channel that programs films 24 hours a day, along with interviews and coverage of major festivals targeted towards the United States' Hispanic market.

VVI runs Latcel, a mobile content production and distribution company in the U.S. Hispanic market. It also runs VeneMobile, a division that offers content from the Cisneros Group of Companies in the mobile markets.

CMD has also participated with the Spanish company Nostromo in television programming and in the production of theater plays in the city of Miami where it owned a theatre from 2001 through 2005.

On October 28, 2013, the Grupo Cisneros relaunched the Venevisión International brand with the name Cisneros Media, as part of a restructuring of the Grupo Cisneros. Cisneros Media is a division that controls entertainment services:

• Venevisión: Venezuela's leading television network.
• Ve Plus: international television channel.
• Miss Venezuela Organization: production platform aimed at the female audience.
• Cisneros Media Distribution - Global distributor of entertainment content.
• Venevisión International Productions and Cisneros Studios – independent producer of Venevisión's Spanish-language programming in the United States and for Venevisión.

In 2016, the company represented Boat Rocker Media titles in Latin America.

Cisneros Media Distribution companies

Venevision International TV Distribution

Venevisión International is one of the largest television programming distribution companies in Latin America. The catalogue includes popular genres from Venezuela, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. It features films from Hollywood, Spain, and Latin America. Genres include telenovelas, musicals, comedies, game shows, talk shows, children's programming and documentaries.

Venevision International Pay TV

VVI Pay TV develops Spanish-language channels for cable and Satellite television broadcasts. The ViendoMovies channel division offers contemporary movies in Spanish in the United States.

Venevision International Film Distribution

The film division of VVI distributes and markets Spanish-language films through pay-per-view, video-on-demand, Internet broadband, hotel and airline systems, and DVDs. This division also publishes compilations of soap operas and other television programs on DVD.

Venevision International Productions

The programming producer for Venevisión International generates productions of various genres. Its facilities are located in Miami and with regional associates. The company also develops programs for television shows.

Venevision International Publishing

Venevisión International Publishing protects and manages the intellectual property rights of music and productions of the Cisneros Organization.

Ve Plus TV

VePlus is a subscription channel owned by Cisneros Media and serves as an updated version of their previous channel, Venevisión Continental. It was also known as Novelísima, Ve Plus TV and V Mas TV, a subsidiary of Grupo Cisneros. VePlus incorporates much of the programming from Venevisión Continental and Novelísima, while also producing its own content in Venezuela and Miami.

History

Venevisión Continental was originally launched as a cable television station on August 28, 2000. It provided entertainment programs, news, talk shows, and soap operas, catering to Spanish-speaking audiences in Venezuela, Latin America, Asia and Europe as the international signal of Venevisión. The channel ceased its broadcasts in July 2008. It was available on DirecTV channel 774 until September 2006 and was owned by Venezuela's Venevisión Canal.

In December 2007, the Cisneros Group initiated a pilot project called Venevisión Novelísima Plus in Venezuela. Recognizing its success and large viewership, Venevisión Continental was relaunched in June 2008 under the name Novelísima. The channel focused on soap operas, telenovelas, Latin entertainment, talk shows, and contests, while excluding opinion, politics, and news media.

On July 18, 2012, the signals of "Novelísima" and "Venevisión Plus Dominicana" were merged to create "Ve Plus TV". In 2017, the channel was rebranded as VePlus.

Feeds

VePlus operates on three different feeds:

1. VePlus: Broadcasts in Latin America, Spain and the Philippines, excluding Venezuela.
2. VePlus: Exclusive feed for Venezuela.
3. VePlus: Available in the United States.

Programming

VePlus primarily offers a lineup of soap operas, talk shows, and variety shows, targeting Hispanic and Latino audiences in the United States and other countries.

Venevision Continental

Venevision Continental serves as the business unit responsible for managing pay-TV channels and services for Cisneros.

Novelas

English-Language Series

• Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide 2005
• Zoey 101 2005
• Flashpoint 2009
• Corazones extremos 2010
• No Puede Ser 2010
• What's Up Warthogs! 2011
• Hawaii Five-0 2012
• Beauty & the Beast 2012
• Just Kidding 2013
• Scorpion 2015
• The Messengers 2015
• Limitless 2015
• Killjoys 2015
• Zoo 2015
• The Next Step 2016
• Extant 2016
• MacGyver 2017
• Seal Team 2018
• FBI 2018

English-Language Cartoons

• Zoofari 2018
• Bitz & Bob 2019
• The Strange Chores 2020
• Kingdom Force 2020
• Remy & Boo 2021
• Dino Ranch 2021
• Zumbar 2021
• Dino Pops 2023

Programs

• La Guerra De Los Sexos
• Súper Sábado Sensacional
• ¡Qué Locura!

Talkshows

• Casos De Familia
• ¿Quién Tiene La Razón?
• Mujeres Con Historias Y Hombres Hambién

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