Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers ''
El Mundo'', ''
Expansión'' and ''
Marca''. It is primarily owned by the Italian holding
RCS MediaGroup
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, ne ...
.
History
Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by
Italian
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media conglomerate
RCS MediaGroup
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, ne ...
) and .
Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers ''
Marca'', ''
Expansión'' and the magazines ''
Actualidad Económica'' and ''
Telva''. Unedisa was the publisher of ''
El Mundo'', founded in 1989 by
Pedro J. Ramírez
Pedro José Ramírez Codina (born 26 March 1952), widely known as Pedro J. Ramírez, is a Spanish journalist. When he was appointed to manage ''Diario 16'' at the age of 28, he became Spain's youngest editor of a national newspaper. In 1989 he ...
. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión (owned by Unedisa) had been also conceded one of the two new
DTT licenses granted by
People's Party government.
Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from ''El Mundo'' in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial. In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a
takeover
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by
Urbano Cairo
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Cairo is a native of Milan. His principal business interest is in Cairo Communication, a business which he founded. At as mid-2016, Cairo via U.T. Communica ...
, who had support from the
Intesa Sanpaolo
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banking group.
Holdings
Newspapers
In 2006, the share of the newspapers controlled by the founding companies was 10% in the Spanish press market.
*''
El Mundo''
[
*'' Expansión'' (business newspaper)]
*'' Marca'' (sports newspaper)[
*''El Cronista'' (]Buenos Aires
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)
*''Diario Información'' (Santiago, Chile
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)
Magazines
*'' Actualidad Económica'' (business magazine)
*''NBA''
*''Arte''
Television
Unidad Editorial is the owner of . Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.
Radio
* (sports radio)
Ownership
Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup
RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. (formerly Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera), based in Milan and listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, is an international multimedia publishing group that operates in daily newspapers, magazines and books, radio broadcasting, ne ...
owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.
See also
* Media in Spain
Mass media in Spain includes a variety of online, print, and broadcast formats, such as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines.
Mass media groups
A list of the main mass media groups is presented as follows:
Books
Magazines
Many in ...
References
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External links
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Spanish companies established in 2007
Mass media companies of Spain
Newspaper companies
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RCS MediaGroup
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