History
Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by Italy, Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup) and . Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers ''Marca (newspaper), Marca'', ''Expansión (Spanish newspaper), Expansión'' and the magazines ''Actualidad Económica'' and ''Telva''. Unedisa was the publisher of ''El Mundo (Spain), El Mundo'', founded in 1989 by Pedro J. Ramírez. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión (owned by Unedisa) had been also conceded one of the two new Digital terrestrial television, DTT licenses granted by People's Party (Spain), 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 by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the Intesa Sanpaolo 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 (Spain), El Mundo'' *''Expansión (Spanish newspaper), Expansión'' (business newspaper) *''Diario Marca, Marca'' (sports newspaper) *''El Cronista'' (Buenos Aires) *''Diario Información'' (Santiago, Chile)Magazines
*''Actualidad Económica'' (business magazine) *''NBA'' *''Arte''Television
Unidad Editorial is the owner of . Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the Digital terrestrial television, DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.Radio
* (sports radio)Ownership
Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.See also
* Media in SpainReferences
;Citations ;Bibliography * *External links
* Spanish companies established in 2007 Mass media companies of Spain Newspaper companies Publishing companies of Spain RCS MediaGroup {{publish-corp-stub