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Initially founded by the largest media company in Mexico (now known as Grupo Televisa) as a means to spread Spanish programming in the United States, Univision has grown to be the largest Spanish-language media outlet in the U.S. Its daily news program Noticiero Univisión, co-anchored by Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas, has in several occasions outdone (in number of ratings) major English-language network evening news programming such as CBS, NBC, and ABC's World News Tonight.

Although Grupo Televisa still owns a large stake in Univision stock holding's, Grupo Cisneros of Venezuela purchased a large amount of shares becoming its largest shareholder.

Univisión and Telemundo USA have been competing for the top spot among Hispanic viewers for many years, often imitating each other's programming.

Univisión however has constantly maintained a lead in ratings due in large part to Mexican telenovelas, or soap operas, and other programming produced by Grupo Televisa. Telemundo has recently grown more competitive with Brazilian telenovelas and also in large part because NBC has equipped the network since it purchased it.

Univisión headquarters are based in Los Angeles, although much of its programming is filmed in Miami. Among its shows are El Show De Cristina (a talk show conducted by Cristina Saralegui), Don Francisco's Sábado Gigante, Despierta América (morning show), Primer Impacto (newsmagazine), Aquí y Ahora (premier investigative nightly newsmagazine), and, as mentioned above, Noticiero Univisión. In addition to that, Univisión has for years shown live boxing fights and soccer matches, and also the World CupThe Football World Cup is the most important competition in international football (soccer). Organised by Federation Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA), the sport's governing body, the World Cup finals tournament is the most widely-viewed and.

Univision has contracts with MexicoThis article is about the country Mexico. For other meanings, see Mexico (disambiguation The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or Mexico regarding the use of the variant spelling Mejico see section The name below) is a co's TelevisaTelevisa is Mexico's largest television network. It was created in 1973 as Television Via Satelite when Telesistema Mexicano (established in 1955) and Television Independiente de Mexico (established in 1968) merged. Televisa largely dedicates itself to th and VenezuelaThe Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela") is a country in northern South America. 1 It borders the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to's VenevisiónVenevision is Venezuela's largest TV station, owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros. Over the years Venevision has produced shows like Sabado Sensacional Maite Cara Sucia and the comedy show Bienvenidos''. Similar to Televisa in Mexico, Venevision c to showcase some of their novelas and tv shows, such as the annual Miss VenezuelaThe Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International pageants (among others). Under the contest, and in 2001 it acquired Puerto RicoThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico") is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Gr's WLII-TV (former Tele Once) and WSTE-TV (former Super Siete, now a TeleFutura affiliate).

See also: List of United States television networks