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Article: Final act for feud? Televisa-Univision dispute over programming deal to get day in court.(TELEVISION)(Grupo Televisa S.A. de C.V. v. Univision Communications Inc.)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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THE two biggest Spanish-language media companies in North America take their feud to a Los Angeles federal corm in a couple of weeks in what may be the culmination of a five-year real-life Mexican soap opera.
The case pits Grupo Televisa, the dominant broadcaster in Mexico, against L.A.'s Univision Communications, the dominant Spanish-language TV network in the United States and owner of KMEX-TV (Channel 34) in Los Angeles. At stake is a program licensing contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The trial's preliminary witness list is a Who's Who of Spanish-language media. It includes Jerry Perenchio, the reclusive Malibu billionaire who ran ...