is a U.S.
Spanish-language broadcast
Television Network owned by
Univision with headquarters in
Miami, Florida .
The network started on
January 14 ,
2002 , a month behind
Telemundo 's launch of its cable TV network, the bilingual
Mun2 , with programs such as the 3 hour gossip/Entertainment show ''
Escándalo TV '' which was designed to compete with similar offerings like ''
Cotorreando '' from
NBC Universal 's Telemundo. Commercials for Telefutura often air on the Univision network.
Most of the stations that carry TeleFutura once aired the
Home Shopping Network . Univision bought the stations from
Barry Diller 's
USA Broadcasting late in 2001.
TeleFutura's programming consists of
Venezuelan Telenovelas from
Coral Productions ,
RCTV , and game shows from
Televisa and
Venevision . The network also airs movies (mainly recent American releases dubbed into Spanish), boxing, ''Futbol Liga Mexicana'' broadcasts, news (including
Contacto Deportivo ) and game shows, including their first game show "Que Dice La Gente?" (literally, ''What are people saying?'') based on the popular "Family Feud",it should be noted that this telefutura produced Miami based game show is based on the defunct
Televisa TV game show
100 Mexicanos Dijeron , and like that show is also hosted by
Marco Antonio Regil .
In late 2005, TeleFutura started airing
En Vivo Y Directo , a 7pm newscast, opposite the taped 4pm news on
Galavisión ). But the network eventually cancelled "En Vivo y Directo" due to low ratings after only a few weeks and have replaced the newscast with movies.
TeleFutura is also a part of the Spanish-language coverage of the
FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament, as Univision owns exclusive US Spanish-language rights. For 2006 it carried eight live games, all in the last days of group play when games are played simultaneously, like
ESPN2 did with
ESPN for English-language coverage. It also had game replays and recap shows. In addition, and in conjunction, Telefutura also airs an exclusive
Major League Soccer game of the week on Sunday afternoon/evening.
In late June 2006, Univision was sold to an investment group including entertainment industry veteran , in February 2007 TeleFutura made significant gains in viewership at the expense of Telemundo, actually taking over second place among Spanish-language networks in the Adults 18-34, Men 18-34 and Men 18-49 demos.
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