''Milenio'' is a major national

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, owned by

Grupo Multimedios Grupo Multimedios is a Mexican media conglomerate with holdings in broadcast television, radio, publishing and entertainment. The company is headquartered in Monterrey. History Multimedios was founded in 1940 when Jesús Dionisio González ac ...

. It is published in 11 cities across Mexico, including Monterrey,

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, Guadalajara, León,

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, Puebla,

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Tampico Tampico is a city and port in the southeastern part of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is located on the north bank of the Pánuco River, about inland from the Gulf of Mexico, and directly north of the state of Veracruz. Tampico is the fifth ...

Torreón Torreón () is a city and seat of Torreón Municipality in the Mexican state of Coahuila. As of 2021, the city's population was 735,340. The metropolitan population as of 2015 was 1,497,734, making it the ninth-biggest metropolitan area in ...

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, and

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. In each local edition they include local content and national news developed by the media group, not only from their newspaper reporters, but also from

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and Multimedios Radio. It started in Monterrey as ''Diario de Monterrey'', and expanded to other cities in the first decade of the 21st century. During elections, Milenio publishes the acclaimed ''María de las Heras'' poll, that was the only poll in Mexico to predict the victory of

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in 2000. The newspaper also publishes a biweekly magazine distributed nationwide, and operates the 24-hour news channel

Milenio Televisión Milenio Televisión is a Mexican television cable news channel owned by Grupo Multimedios. The news programming uses the resources of the Milenio newspaper, one of the largest in the country. Programming is 24 hours a day, through news, analysis ...

, which is distributed throughout Mexico via cable and satellite, and over-the-air through the subchannels of its sister network Canal 6, with some American distribution. The newspaper was criticized for publishing a daily poll which gave President

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

an 18-point lead over

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5 days before the election, while the real difference was 6.46%.

Ciro Gómez Leyva Ciro Gómez Leyva (born October 10, 1957) is a Mexican news anchor and personality. He hosts the main newscast on Imagen Televisión and a morning radio program, ''Ciro por la Mañana'' (Ciro in the Morning), for Radio Fórmula. Gómez Leyva has ...

printed a public apology, adding that they would "retire from electoral polling."

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External links

''Milenio:'' Official Website
Companies based in Monterrey Spanish-language newspapers Newspapers published in Mexico Grupo Multimedios {{Mexico-newspaper-stub

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