2024-01-27 17:14:00
So far, the official information on the closure of the television station’s regional spots flows in dribs and drabs from Televisabut communicators in Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Morelos, the State of Mexico and Chiapas have made their dismissals public.
Mexico City, January 27 (However).– “As you know, this Thursday was my last program to air through N+ State of Mexico, because? They are decisions that companies are making and the decision to Televisa-Univision “The thing is that this region in the State of Mexico was no longer included in their plans for 2024. The news was sudden and shocking for everyone, but that’s life and that’s how decisions are.” This is how he said goodbye to the Mexican audience. news anchor Germán Zepeda. Your case is not the only one, this week others communicators reported that they were firedfollowing Televisa restructured its coverage from local to statewide y closed several regional plazas in at least eight states of the country.
“Unfortunately I might not say goodbye to you on air and that is why I make this video to thank you for all this support,” thanked Germán Zepeda through a video message on his networks. “Thanks to Televisa Due to this great opportunity in my professional life, this company closes its operations in the State of Mexico, that is, there will be no more newscasts or magazine programs. “I have nothing left but to thank life for so much.”
Zepeda, who was the owner of a nightly news program in N+ State of Mexicodetailed that the total closure of the television station in the entity affected 60 people, including drivers, reporters, cameramen, administrators, sales, production, continuity and administration personnel.
So far, the official information on the closure of the television station’s regional spots flows in dribs and drabs from Televisabut communicators in Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Morelos, State of Mexico and Chiapas They have made public their dismissals.
According to their testimonies, Televisa-Univision He suddenly informed them that this closure responds to the strategy of restructuring local content and that the movements are intended to provide coverage with a greater regional perspective and “will maintain their traditional closeness to the local.”
Televisathe largest producer of Spanish-speaking audiovisual content worldwide, born in 1973 from the merger of Channel 8 and Mexican Telesystemhas been weathering a crisis in its business model for years due to competition in pay television and the arrival of streaming, which led its shares to lose 35.72 percent of their value on the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) during 2023. .
However, this year it started on the right foot and on Friday its shares experienced an increase of 8.28 percent, reaching 10.98 pesos per unit, following the company submitted the request to directly list Ollamani, the new company that concentrates the operations of Club América, the Azteca Stadium, the Play City casinos, as well as its publishing and distribution business of magazines such as TV Notes y Facial Kitchen.
These good numbers that Grupo Televisa presented in the BMV contrast with the layoffs announced this week.
“FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT THEY WARNED US”: DRIVER
Another of the subsidiaries affected by the restructuring was Televisa in Tampico, known as Televisa del Golfowith 65 years of operation in the area.
According to what was reported in local media, the communicators and the audience in southern Tamaulipas received the news as a surprise.
Mario Leal, show host of “Las Noticias Tampico” published on his social networks that they were not notified of the closure of said television station until the newscast concluded this Friday.
“I dare to break the silence because in the end I no longer have a working relationship with Televisa, we have already formed a settlement with the company. Being told from one day to the next that it is the end, even if you have assimilated it or expect it, is never easy,” shared the driver who had been working in 13 years. Televisa del Golfo.
Through a live broadcast, Leal explained that at the end of the morning broadcast of the newscast they were informed of the closure of the broadcasts.
“To begin with, the curtains were down, to prevent anything negative that might happen and those of us who had a backpack, they checked it, to see what we were entering into the facilities, the news ended and I began to see that there are many guards and that makes you feeling as if you were a criminal, a stranger following so many years and so many things that you might have given,” he said.
Regarding the financial remuneration he received, he said that although it was good, the way in which the dismissal occurred generated dissatisfaction among him and his colleagues. “I don’t think it’s the way, I know it’s not local, it comes from much higher up, even from the United States, who are the heads of Univisionbut it was quite difficult.”
Televisa It had four stations in Tamaulipas: Tampico, Ciudad Victoria, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros, the latter is the only one that has the technology to link at the state level and from there the decision was made that the other three would be repeater signals, as explained Mario Leal.
COAHUILA: TELEVISA SALTILLO TURN OFF YOUR SIGNAL
In Coahuila, the plazas of Saltillo and Piedras Negras have closed their operations, as communicators who work at the local television station shared from their networks.
“The end of an era, I hated you and I loved you, but at the end of everything THANK YOU Televisa for opening the doors to me, the company where since I was a child I always dreamed of working. 5 years of so much learning are coming to an end, friends, anecdotes. Thanks God. After 18 years, the lights on Televisa Saltillo Official go out. Thank you all,” wrote reporter Christian Montelongo on his networks.
Luz María Félix, main presenter of Televisa Saltillo’s Night Edition Newscast, said goodbye to the company through social networks.
“I want to tell you that you were an essential part of my life, you were my motivation, inspiration, my challenge, my critics haha, although sometimes I didn’t like criticism very much, it helped me grow, get out of my comfort zone and always want to prepare myself more for give them the best. God’s plans are perfect, and many times everything that begins must end. But I ended it happy and satisfied with a company that gave me the opportunity to believe in myself and gave me the opportunity to reach their homes every night,” she wrote on her Facebook account.
Laura Olivares, another communicator, wrote: “I inform you that today Televisa Saltillo It turns off its signal, but we thank and thank all those viewers who made it possible for the channel to remain for 19 years. You will be able to see news from Saltillo now from Torreón starting Monday from 6 to 9 am led by Toño Moreno, a great man from whom I also learned a lot. I will continue to look forward to him here on social networks and I hope to continue counting on his support with information from celebrities.”
MORE CLOSINGS
Local media reported that in the Durango plaza there were 15 workers who were left without jobs with the closure of the plaza. On Friday the morning news was broadcast for the last time and starting on Monday the morning news will be broadcast. Televisa from La Laguna.
In Zacatecas, Televisa announced the definitive closure of its subsidiary, which had operated since 1986 under the name Televisa Zacatecas. According to local media, Emilio Azcárraga’s company liquidated 40 workers and collaborators and only left five people, two drivers and three production workers.
The workers of Televisa Zacatecas They would have found out the news on the same day of the closure, without prior notice or the opportunity to say goodbye to the audience that accompanied them for 28 years.
The decision affected around a thousand workers, including drivers, reporters, cameramen, administrators, directors, salespeople, producers and cleaning staff.
In Chihuahua, Televisa closed its doors in Ciudad Juárez and the state capital; The same thing happened in Morelos.
Thank you Televisa Morelos… ????When a friend leaves, an empty space is left, which cannot be filled by the arrival of another friend???????? when a media outlet closes the Hearings we have fewer opportunities for truthful, objective information and currently full of ” “fake news” pic.twitter.com/niHkyi9Bwq
— Carlos Cuernavaca (@CarlosCuerna) January 27, 2024
Televisa, the company that captivated the public with its soap opera stories for 60 years, is going through a period of change, following a bad year in 2023 on the BMV. Specialists agree that this is due to video streaming that captivated the market with original content and, although it wanted to compete by launching ViX+, it has not had the expected success because it arrived 12 years late.
According to data from Nielsen IBOPE Mexico, the television station’s reach nationwide in newscasts N+ It is 44 million people.
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