Univision is buying Grupo Televisa’s content assets in a $4.8 billion transaction that will combine two of the biggest Spanish-language producers in the world.
Televisa, which is based in Mexico, will see its content and media assets will be rolled into Univision and create a new company called Televisa-Univision. 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.
Univision is paying Televisa $3 billion in cash, with another $1.45