Atresmedia Corporación de Medios de Comunicación, S.A., previously Grupo Antena 3, is a Spanish media group, present in the television, radio and filmmaking industries. Significant shareholders include Grupo Planeta and Bertelsmann. On 6 March 2013, Grupo Antena 3 was renamed Atresmedia, thereby Antena 3 de Televisión changed to Atresmedia Televisión.

Divisions

Television

Atresmedia operates several channels through Atresmedia Televisión of which

Antena 3 Antena 3 may refer to: * Antena 3 (Portugal), a national radio channel produced by the Portuguese public broadcasting entity Rádio e Televisão de Portugal *Antena 3 (Romania), a Romanian television channel owned by Intact Media Group *Antena 3 (Sp ...

and

laSexta La Sexta (; "The Sixth"; stylized as laSexta) is a Spanish free-to-air television channel. It is privately owned and was originally founded on 18 March 2001 as Beca TV that began broadcasting on 1 April 2001, that same year. By 21 July 2003, the ...

are the flagship channels. In addition to these channels, Atresmedia Televisión operates three other national terrestrial channels - Neox,

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and Mega. Until 5 May 2014 Xplora, Nitro, laSexta3 were also broadcast. In December 2015, Atresmedia Televisión started to air Atreseries, an HD national terrestrial channel centered on fiction TV series.

Radio

Atresmedia operates three radio stations through Atresmedia Radio - Onda Cero, Europa FM and Melodía FM.

Film

Atresmedia Cine is the division responsible for producing film content. Atresmedia Cine is one of the most prominent Spanish and Latin American film producers. It was created in 2000.

Publishing

Atresmedia Publicidad is the division responsible for producing advertising material.

Event Management

Atresmedia Eventos is the division responsible for management of public events.

Web Content

Atresmedia Digital is the division responsible for management of internet content. Atresplayer - Logo 2018

The video-on-demand streaming service owned and operated by Atresmedia is (also stylized as ATRESplayer). In addition to content from the free-to-air linear television channels, it offers access to exclusive and original content for Premium subscribers — under the Atresplayer Premium brand —, access to additional foreign serials and

telenovela A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ( ...

s for Novelas Nova subscribers, and access to original content under the

Flooxer Flooxer is a Spanish brand of original audiovisual streaming content which belongs to Atresmedia. Initially its own platform, after the launch of streaming service Atresplayer by Atresmedia, the brand and content from Flooxer were integrated into ...

brand.

Corporate affairs

Headquarters

Atremedia's corporate headquarters are located on the outskirts of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...

, in the municipality of San Sebastián de los Reyes. The building complex covers .

Chairmen

* 1989–1992: Javier Godó * 1992–1997: Antonio Asensio * 1997–2001: José María Mas Millet * 2001–2003: Enrique Álvarez * 2003–2015: José Manuel Lara Bosch * 2015–present: José Creuheras

Shareholding

The majority shareholders of Atresmedia are Grupo Planeta-DeAgostini, S.L. (44.54%) and UFA Film- und Fernsehen GmbH (20.49%).

References

External links

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