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Telemundo, Televisa Ink Digital Distribution Deal in Mexico; Univision Still Outside Looking In

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imageTelevisa can now distribute original programs from NBCU’s Telemundo across all of its digital and wireless platforms in Mexico: the heavily-trafficked esmas.com.mx entertainment portal, streaming video and VOD Websites, as well as its Esmas Movil mobile content platform, Variety reports. The deal fleshes out a strategic partnership the two companies announced in March, which let Televisa port Telemundo’s shows to its on-air channel Canal 9.

SEE ALSO: Televisa Launches Online Video Services; U.S. Still No-Show Due To Legal Quagmire

But it also leaves estranged Televisa partner Univision on the outside looking in yet again, as the NY-based Spanish media giant lost the broadcasting rights to (and the resulting ad revenue from) a series of Mexico’s premiere soccer games in September. Televisa gave Telemundo the rights when the contract expired. The bad blood between the two companies will likely come to a head in January, when their long-standing legal battle over royalties and a 25-year-long contract that Televisa wants out of actually goes to court.

Oct 20, 2008 3:08 PM ET

Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Companies, NBC Universal, mexico, telemundo, televisa

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