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ՍՈ IVISIO Ո COMMUNICATIONS INC Televisa Televisa to Merge its Media , Content and Production Assets with Univision in Landmark Transaction , Creating the Premier Global Spanish - Language Media Company • • • Televisa - Univision , the new combined company , creates the global leader in Spanish - language media with the largest library of owned content , coupled with unmatched production capabilities to power its leading television , digital and streaming platforms . As the definitive global leader in Spanish - language media , Televisa - Univision will have the operating assets , financial scale and audience reach to accelerate its digital transformation and deliver a differentiated streaming proposition to the underserved global Spanish - language population . Televisa to contribute its content assets for a total value of $ 4.8 billion , comprised of $ 3.0 billion in cash , $ 1.5 billion in Univision equity and $ 0.3 billion from other sources . Transaction partially financed by a new $ 1 billion Series C preferred investment led by the SoftBank Latin America Fund with participation from Google , The Raine Group and ForgeLight , underscoring confidence in Televisa - Univision's ability to capture the global Spanish - language streaming opportunity . NEW YORK , MIAMI AND MEXICO CITY – April 13 , 2021 – Grupo Televisa , S.A.B. ( “ Televisa ” ) , and Univision Holdings , Inc. ( together with its wholly owned subsidiary , Univision Communications Inc. , “ Univision " ) , today announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa's content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish - language media company in the world : Televisa- Univision ( the " Company " ) . The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two largest Spanish - speaking markets in the world : Univision in the United States , the largest Spanish - language media market by value , and Televisa in Mexico , which is the most populous Spanish - language market in the world . The resulting business will hold the largest long - form library of content in the world , a powerful portfolio of IP and global sports rights , fueled by the most prolific Spanish - language production infrastructure . The power and scope of these content assets are unmatched . In 2020 , Televisa produced more than 86,000 hours of content across every genre and category , including sports and special events , dramas , newscasts , situation comedies , game shows , reality shows , children's programs , comedy and variety programs , musical and cultural events , movies and educational programming . Televisa will also contribute its four free - to - air channels , 27 pay - TV networks channels and stations , its Videocine movie studio and Blim TV subscription video on demand ( SVOD ) service ; and the Televisa trademark . These media assets comprise the definitive market leader in Mexico .