Televisa

Grupo Televisa (simply known as Televisa) is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company, founded by Emilio Azcárraga Milmo on January 8, 1973 after the merger of Telesistema Mexicano (TSM) and Televisión Indepediente de México (TIM) respectively. Until 2022, Televisa was the largest commercial TV corporation in Mexico and one of the largest in the world. In the United States, Televisa has an exclusive contract with Univision.
==Telesistema Mexicano==
===1955–1973===
Televisa began as on March 26th, 1955 by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and Ernesto Barrientos Reyes; TSM had three national channels. The logo consisted of a curve simulating the letter "S" with the letter "T" together in the top left, and the "M" was next to the curve.
==Televisión Independiente de México==
===1968–1973 ===
Another company named was originally founded as one channel in 1968. The logo consisted as the T, I and M letters were merged into a single form, and the white circle covered the letter I letting two remaining letters.
==Televisa==
Both Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México were fused into a single broadcasting company, and rebranded as or better known as Televisa on January 8, 1973, using the same name of the defunct Venezuelan TV channel which today is the famous television network (and one of Televisa's longtime partners until 2019) Venevisión. By the merger Televisa has four national Mexican channels.
===1973–2000===
This was the first logo with the eye symbol inspiration from CBS making as an orange oval broken into ten lines with the sun in the scenery. The eye logo was designed by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, symbolizing as the spectator's vision to watch the world throughout the television.
====1973–1980====
The 1973 logo was with wordmark using as a separated name as "Tele Visa" that was stacked without the letter "I". The letter "T" was a two striped cross unified with the letter "V" and "I" as the letter "t" in lowercase.
====1981–1990====
The wordmark was discontinued in 1981, and the empty space of the sun was colored yellow. This logo was still used as a secondary variation, seen in some idents until 2001.
====1990–2000====
In 1990, the wordmark was added to the 1981 logo.
=====1998–2000=====
In 1998, the logo was given a three dimensional look, and the lines through the "sun" took off. It was used only on Televisa Deportes and Noticieros Televisa as a blue logo.
===2001–present===
====2001–2016====
Televisa launched a new logo on January 1, 2001, reduced eight scanlines of ten, and it's similar to the previous logo, just the frequent changes from the next two logos. Changes include the sun now being a 3D sphere, which in turn making the logo an eye, and the wordmark was Helvetica Black.
====2012–2016 (secondary); 2016–present (primary)====
On January 16th, 2016, a refresh of the previous logo removes the "pupil" part and it's now a single flat color. However, it was first seen in a In Memoriam from 2012, 4 years before its on-screen debut.
Since 2022, this logo is currently being used under licensed to TelevisaUnivision for its programming, as well as its intro logos.
===2022-present (corporate)===
In 2021, Televisa announced that it will sell its entertainment assets to Univision Communications. The sale was completed on January 31, 2022 and UCI renamed itself to TelevisaUnivision in the process. After that, Televisa became a telecommunications company, under its corporate name, Grupo Televisa.
*Univision and Televisa Complete Transaction to Create “TelevisaUnivision” - TelevisaUnivision Corporate (English)
*Televisa cambió su logotipo y cada división tiene un color distinto, ¿qué opinas? - Merca2.0 (Spanish)
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