V-me (, a pun on ''veme'', "watch me") is an American Spanish-language

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, formerly carried as an over-the-air public broadcasting network in association with

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stations created for the United States Hispanic market. V-me airs drama, music, current affairs, food, lifestyle, nature and educational preschool content.

History

The 24-hour digital broadcast service was launched on March 5, 2007, with a stated mission to entertain, educate and inspire families in Spanish with a contemporary mix of original productions, exclusive premieres, acquisitions, and popular public television programs from PBS and

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, specially adapted for

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. The first venture of the media production and distribution company V-me Television Media Inc., it is a public-private partnership between

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, a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and the investment firm Baeza Group, the venture capital firm Syncom Funds, and Grupo PRISA from Spain, one of the world's largest Spanish and Portuguese-language media companies. WNET is a minority partner in the for-profit venture. In April 2013, a

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-based private investor group of Venezuelans (Eduardo Hauser, J. J. Rendón and Eligio Cedeño) took control of V-me Media, Inc., the U.S. Hispanic content and distribution company that owns Spanish-language network V-me and V-me Kids. Financial terms of the deal and the percentage of the ownership of the new investors was not disclosed. The V-me Board includes former AOL executive and founder and CEO of DailyMe.com Eduardo Hauser (chairman of the board), Syncom managing partner

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and

’s VP and general counsel Robert Feinberg. V-me founder, Mario Baeza, stepped down as chairman, but will continue to have an ownership interest. LPM is the largest stakeholder in V-me. Among the journalists who have worked for V-me are

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, Juan Manuel Benitez, Luis Sarmiento, Alonso Castillo, Jackeline Cacho and Marián de la Fuente. In December 2016, PBS announced that V-me would end its operations in 2017, following the expiration of the network's 10-year contracts with many of these stations, and transition exclusively to being broadcast on ten over-the-air affiliates and as a cable and satellite channel. Most of V-me's over-the-air affiliates were dropped by March 31, 2017; many of these affiliates had already chosen to replace V-me with a 24-hour PBS Kids channel, which launched on January 16, 2017. The network has since pursued expanded cable carriage, along with distribution on Dish Network and

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and their associated streaming services, and the network was added nationwide at the start of October 2022 on

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systems.

Programming

The network broadcasts a variety of programming in Spanish: *

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-focused lifestyle content: health, parenting, travel, food, home, design, self-improvement and sports programs *Prime time drama series *News and current affairs, with '' Oppenheimer Presenta'' and ''Jorge Gestoso Investiga'' *Nature documentaries from

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