Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers '' El Mundo'', '' Expansión'' and ''

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''. It is primarily owned by the Italian holding

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History

Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by

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media conglomerate

) and . Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers ''

'', '' Expansión'' and the magazines '' Actualidad Económica'' and ''

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''. Unedisa was the publisher of '' El Mundo'', founded in 1989 by

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. 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

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, who had support from the

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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) *''

'' (sports newspaper) *''El Cronista'' (

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) *''Diario Información'' (

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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

owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.

References

;Citations ;Bibliography * *

External links

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