''24 horas'' (''24 hours'') was a Mexican television news programme broadcast from 1970 to 1998, presented by

Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the coun ...

. It aired on

el Canal de las Estrellas Las Estrellas ("The Stars"; previously El Canal de las Estrellas, or "The Channel of the Stars") is one of the cornerstone networks of TelevisaUnivision, with affiliate stations all over Mexico, flagshipped at XEW-TDT in Mexico City. Many of the ...

from Televisa for 27 years, starting from September 7, 1970. It was the longest running news show on Mexican TV, with almost three uninterrupted decades of broadcasting; it stopped airing on Monday, January 19, 1998, even though Zabludovsky continued working on Televisa until the year 2000. It was a very influential show, considering that it was the most watched news show in Mexico. The news show was the first to be produced by a news team from the same network, without newspaper articles.

Journalists and collaborators

Many renowned Mexican journalists and newsreader started their career on this show. Examples include: *

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Joaquín López-Dóriga Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia (born 8 February 1947) is a Spanish Mexican journalist. He started working as a journalist for the daily ''El Heraldo de México'' at the age of 18, and two years later he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky in the televisi ...

* Ricardo Rocha Reynaga * Juan Ruiz Healy *

Lolita Ayala Dolores Ayala Nieto, better known as Lolita Ayala (born May 20, 1951), is a Mexican journalist and philanthropist from Mexico City. She began her career in News broadcasting, television journalism in the early 1970s, at a time when no woman head ...

* Heriberto Murrieta * Fernando Schwartz *

Guillermo Ortega Ruiz Guillermo Ortega Ruiz (born February 15, 1955 in Mexico City) is a Mexican journalist. He was Televisa Nightly News Anchor. Biography Son of Benjamin Ortega Hernandez also a journalist and Guillermina Ruiz Marcos. He studied journalism at the Sc ...

* Abraham Zabludovsky Nerubay * Juan Manuel Damián

Journalists

* Graciela Leal * Luis Aguilar Chávez† * Salvador Estrada * Guillermo Pérez Verduzco† * Fernando Alcalá *

Juan Manuel Rentería ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

* Patricia Donneaud * Norma Meraz * Félix Cortés Camarillo *

Gregorio Meraz Gregorio is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925–2016), Uruguayan army general and de facto President of Uruguay from 1981 until 1985 * Gregorio Álvarez (historian) (1889–1986), ...

Guillermo Herrera Guillermo () is the Spanish form of the male given name William. The name is also commonly shortened to 'Guille' or, in Latin America, to nickname 'Memo'. People *Guillermo Amor (born 1967), Spanish football manager and former player *Guillermo Ar� ...

Rita Ganem Rita may refer to: People * Rita (given name) * Rita (Indian singer) (born 1984) * Rita (Israeli singer) (born 1962) * Rita (Japanese singer) * Eliza Humphreys (1850–1938), wrote under the pseudonym Rita Places * Djarrit, also known as Rita, ...

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Laura Padilla Laura may refer to: People * Laura (given name) * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia * Laura Bay, a bay on ...

Agustín Granados Agustín is a Spanish given name and sometimes a surname. It is related to Augustín. People with the name include: Given name * Agustín (footballer), Spanish footballer * Agustín Calleri (born 1976), Argentine tennis player * Agustín Cár ...

* Ana Cristina Peláez *

Juan José Prado ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

Juan Francisco Castañeda ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

* Francisco Ramírez * Fernando del Monte Ceceña * Magdalena García de León * Philippe Bac * Amador Narcia * Rocío Villagarcía * Laura Martínez Alarcón * Rafael Vieyra Matouk * Virginia Sendel-Lemaitre * Martha Venegas * Helen Sztrigler * Cynthia Lara * Ma. Cristina Espinoza * Julieta Berganza *

Silvia Lemus Silvia Lemus de Fuentes is a journalist and host of the interview television programme ''Tratos y Retratos''. She is the widow of Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. Galician in origin, Silvia was the wife and hostess for her husband, when he was Mex ...

Maxine Woodside Maxine Woodside is a Mexican radio and television host, better known as the 'Queen of the Radio' and the main host of the radio show ''Todo para la Mujer'', which has been transmitted through Radio Formula since October 16, 1989. In October 2022, ...

Talina Fernández Catalina María del Sagrado Corazón Fernández-Veró Vela (born August 2, 1944) is a Mexican television presenter, journalist, producer, and actress. She has hosted and written for numerous television programs for many years. Biography Talina Fer ...

* Martha Renero * Francisco Patiño * Elda Sánchez Gaytán * Alejandro Llano * José María Rebolledo * Salvador Carrillo Martínez * Rocío González Trápaga * Raúl René Trujillo * Ricardo Peña Navarrete * Héctor Jaime Mendoza * Primitivo López * Juan Sebastián Solís * Susana Solís

Correspondents

* Valentina Alazraki (Italy and the Vatican) * Philippe Bac (Canada and France) * Félix Cortés Schöler (Germany) * Ignacio Espinoza (Miami-USA) *

Jesús Hermida Jesús Hermida Pineda OAXS (27 June 1937 – 4 May 2015) was a Spanish journalist. He worked as a U.S. correspondent for Televisión Española in New York City, New York. Hermida was born Huelva. He died from a stroke in Madrid Madri ...

(Washington) * Federico Knoblauch (Germany) * Mario Lechuga (Texas-USA) * María Almendra McBride *

Marcelo Luis Ojeda Marcelo is a given name, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Marcellus. The Italian version of the name is Marcello, differing in having an additional "l". Marcelo may refer to: * Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born 1967), Brazilian serial killer, rapi ...

(Argentina) * Alberto Peláez (Spain) * Joaquín Peláez * María Elena Rico (Soviet Union/Russia) * Horacio Rocha Staines (Great Britain) * Eva Usi (Germany) * Erica Vexler (Israel) * Ariel Roffe (Israel) * Kassia Wyderko (Yugoslavia) * Marissa Céspedes (New York) * José Luis Belmar (Sweden) After the final broadcasts of ''24 horas'', most of the correspondents continued to work on the new worldwide information program of Televisa, being part of ''Noticieros Televisa,'' such as Alazraki, Belmar, Céspedes, Pelaez, and Wyderko. Later, some correspondents were replaced.

References

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