Noticias ECO (''Empresa de Comunicaciones Orbitales, S.A. de C.V.'', lit. Orbital Communications Company), also known as ECO News, was a Mexican

news channel News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting various news events and other information via television, radio, or the internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or televis ...

, which broadcast from 1 September 1988 to 1 May 2001. It was the first 24-hour news channel in Spanish and was owned by

Televisa Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...

. It closed due to low profits. Its signal covered the

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and

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via satellite, with correspondents in 32 countries.I CILE - La televisión (El sistema de noticias Eco) Félix Cortés Camarillo
/ref> Some of the other Televisa networks, such as

Galavisión Galavisión is an American Spanish-language pay television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network is unrelated to the earlier Mexican channel of the same name, though both broadcast Televisa-produced programming. As of February 2015 ...

and

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 ...

, included or simulcast ECO newscasts. In 2010, Canal de la Ciudad, which had been airing programs targeted toward Mexico City, was relaunched as

FOROtv Foro (English: "Forum"), is a broadcast news television channel owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is seen on most Mexican cable systems and full-time on two stations in Mexico, including XHTV-TDT in Mexico City, with selected programs airing on Tele ...

with a full slate of news and opinion programs. This marks the first time since ECO's closure that Televisa has operated a mainly-news channel.

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Televisa pay television networks Television channels and stations established in 1988 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001 24-hour television news channels in Mexico Defunct television channels in Mexico {{Mexico-tv-station-stub