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Univision exploring possible sale

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Radiogeek500

NOTE: This is both a Radio and Television company, so I didn't really know "specifically" where to post this. Apologies to KM and Rockman if anything seems too off topic for this board.

I guess this got lost in the ABC sale, but according to the trades, Univision is possibly putting itself up for sale.

It would be hard for someone to acquire them though. NBC, CBS, and Fox are all maxed out on the TV side, CBS on the radio side, and NBC and Fox wouldn't really have usuage for spanish launguage Radio Stations. ABC just sold it's Radio Division and is really only looking at Pixar as the only media front right now.

Comcast and Time Warner could step in, but Comcast's strategies may not fit with Univision's Outsourcing of programming to Telavisa. And TW is cutting back, having shed a bunch of stuff and rumored to dump AOL and possibly merge CNN with CBS's News Division.

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> I guess this got lost in the ABC sale, but according to the
> trades, Univision is possibly putting itself up for sale.

It was also in Robert Feder's TV/Radio column in this morning's Chicago Sun-Times.

> It would be hard for someone to acquire them though. NBC,
> CBS, and Fox are all maxed out on the TV side, CBS on the
> radio side, and NBC and Fox wouldn't really have usuage for
> spanish launguage Radio Stations. ABC just sold it's Radio
> Division and is really only looking at Pixar as the only
> media front right now.

NBC already has Telemundo... Don't think they'd want Univision, plus, they'd have to divest much of their stations to aquire the whole company. ABC I believe was a rumored party in what I read this morning.

Now... Would they sell radio and TV seperately? As much as you think that NBC wouldn't have usage for the Spanish language radio stations, remember, they own Telemundo... The radio stations would probably fit into their Telemundo unit. Also, if they did that, what's not to say they wouldn't flip any of the weaker performing stations to an English language format? (Return of the NBC Radio Network??? Yeah... I know...)

> Comcast and Time Warner could step in, but Comcast's
> strategies may not fit with Univision's Outsourcing of
> programming to Telavisa. And TW is cutting back, having shed
> a bunch of stuff and rumored to dump AOL and possibly merge
> CNN with CBS's News Division.

Comcast would have FCC problems in at least Chicago and LA and Time-Warner would have problems at in NYC (and LA?), because, unless something has changed you cannot own radio/tv stations and a cable company in the same market.

TW already dumped AOL from their name so why not dump that unit? It's not like it's doing that great anymore anyway. I doubt that CNN and CBS News will merge, since they'd again more than likely run into some legal issues with the FCC, but who knows.

> Share your thoughts all. Will Univision merge and with whom?

Unless, Televisa can get around the rules and buy them outright, I don't see the whole company going as one large chunk. If I had to speculate anything... The major players for the company are going to be NBC-Uni, Entravision, and SBS.

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> NOTE: This is both a Radio and Television company, so I
> didn't really know "specifically" where to post this.
> Apologies to KM and Rockman if anything seems too off topic
> for this board.

This is presently under discussion on the National TV board, Josh.

But since there is a question as to whether or not Univision Radio will remain tied to the television network, I would call that portion of the discussion on-topic for here.

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> NBC already has Telemundo... Don't think they'd want
> Univision, plus, they'd have to divest much of their
> stations to aquire the whole company.

So long as they own Telemundo, they are prohibited by anti-trust rules from also owning Univision, as those are the two top-rated Spanish language television networks.

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> > NBC already has Telemundo... Don't think they'd want
> > Univision, plus, they'd have to divest much of their
> > stations to aquire the whole company.
>
> So long as they own Telemundo, they are prohibited by
> anti-trust rules from also owning Univision, as those are
> the two top-rated Spanish language television networks.
>
> (Further television-related discussion of this should be on
> the National TV board, please.)
>

Right... But could they not purchase the radio stations only?

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> > > NBC already has Telemundo... Don't think they'd want
> > > Univision, plus, they'd have to divest much of their
> > > stations to aquire the whole company.
> >
> > So long as they own Telemundo, they are prohibited by
> > anti-trust rules from also owning Univision, as those are
> > the two top-rated Spanish language television networks.
> >
> > (Further television-related discussion of this should be
> on
> > the National TV board, please.)
> >
>
> Right... But could they not purchase the radio stations
> only?

If they wanted to get into the Spanish-language radio business, they could. Owning no radio stations at the present time, they have no legal constraints on acquiring same.

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> > > > NBC already has Telemundo... Don't think they'd want
> > > > Univision, plus, they'd have to divest much of their
> > > > stations to aquire the whole company.
>
> If they wanted to get into the Spanish-language radio
> business, they could. Owning no radio stations at the
> present time, they have no legal constraints on acquiring
> same.
>
> The question is ... would they want to?

They defintely wanted out of radio 15 years ago, when randy Bongarten helped them sell off all the radio properties. I don't see radio today, even Spanish radio, as something that would incent them to get back in.

(This is not about the "sale" but more about why NBC is not in radio any more)
 
> > > > > NBC already has Telemundo... Don't think they'd
> want
> > > > > Univision, plus, they'd have to divest much of their
>
> > > > > stations to aquire the whole company.
> >
> > If they wanted to get into the Spanish-language radio
> > business, they could. Owning no radio stations at the
> > present time, they have no legal constraints on acquiring
> > same.
> >
> > The question is ... would they want to?
>
> They defintely wanted out of radio 15 years ago, when randy
> Bongarten helped them sell off all the radio properties. I
> don't see radio today, even Spanish radio, as something that
> would incent them to get back in.
>
> (This is not about the "sale" but more about why NBC is not
> in radio any more)
>
If SBS could come up with the money for Univision, even just for the radio statons, I don't know what markets, if any they might have to divest, but for Chicago, they might move La Ley to 105.1 so it'll cover the entire market, possibly try Onda again on 107.9, and either keep the current formats on 106.7 & the 93.5/103.1 simulcast, or change formats. For Entravision, it would bring them back to the Chicago market, but if they're smart, they should keep the current formats on the Chicago area stations. If CBS were to acquire them, they would have to divest their interest in the upcoming CW network and divest stations in a number of markets, including Chicago since they're already maxed out. They might only be able to acquire the TV division, plus I don't know what markets Univision is in that is outside of the top 20 markets. I won't speculate any further.
 
> >
> If SBS could come up with the money for Univision,

That is a leap of faith. The investment anylists are quesitoning SBS's ability to run the $40 million TV station they got in Miami because of thier burdensome debt service.

> even just
> for the radio statons, I don't know what markets, if any
> they might have to divest, but for Chicago, they might move
> La Ley to 105.1 so it'll cover the entire market, possibly
> try Onda again on 107.9,

The La Ley format is being beaten by Que Buena. Why kill a good station to put a less-good one on a signal that covers no more Hispanics than La Ley does now?

Onda was a bad format. Spanish pop is dead, everywhere. They changed Onda in PR to reggaetón and it went from number 15 to number 4 in one book.

> and either keep the current formats
> on 106.7 & the 93.5/103.1 simulcast, or change formats. For
> Entravision, it would bring them back to the Chicago market,
> but if they're smart, they should keep the current formats
> on the Chicago area stations.

Entravision, if you did not notice, is getting out of radio. they are selling all the Dallas staitons, and sold their second largest market, San Francisco, in December.
 
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