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.[2]

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.[3] The company has a diverse programming catalogue, with an emphasis on the telenovela genre.[4]

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.[11][12] VePlus incorporates much of the programming from Venevisión Continental and Novelísima, while also producing its own content in Venezuela and Miami.[13][14][15]

History

Venevisión Continental was originally launched as a cable television station on August 28, 2000.[16] 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.[17]

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.[18] The channel focused on soap operas, telenovelas, Latin entertainment, talk shows, and contests, while excluding opinion, politics, and news media.[19][20][21]

On July 18, 2012, the signals of "Novelísima" and "Venevisión Plus Dominicana" were merged to create "Ve Plus TV".[22][23][24] In 2017, the channel was rebranded as VePlus.[25][26][27]

Feeds

VePlus operates on three different feeds:

1) VePlus: Broadcasts in Latin America, Spain and the Philippines, excluding Venezuela.[28]
2) VePlus: Exclusive feed for Venezuela.[29][30]
3) VePlus: Available in the United States.[31][32]

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.[33][34][35][36][37]

Venevision Continental

Venevision Continental serves as the business unit responsible for managing pay-TV channels and services for Cisneros.[38][39][40]

industry	Media
predecessor	Venevision International
founded	1970
founder	Diego Cisneros
hq location	Miami, Florida, United States Caracas, Venezuela
area served	Worldwide
key people	Adriana Cisneros, CEO Jonathan Blum, President ‡R1R‡
parent	Grupo Cisneros
subsid	Venevisión VePlus Venevisión International Productions Venevision Studios Venemusic Siente Music RedMas
website	http://www.cisnerosmediadist.com/

History

Cisneros Media Distribution companies

Ve Plus TV

History

Feeds

Programming

Venevision Continental

Novelas

English-Language Series

English-Language Cartoons

Programs

Talkshows

External links

References