Unidad Editorial

Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers El Mundo, Expansión and Marca. It is primarily owned by the Italian holding RCS MediaGroup.

History

Unidad Editorial emerged in 2007 after the merger of two media companies, namely Unedisa (controlled by Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup) and Grupo Recoletos.

Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers Marca, Expansión and the magazines Actualidad Económica and Telva. Unedisa was the publisher of El Mundo, founded in 1989 by Pedro J. Ramírez. Back in 2000, Veo Televisión (owned by Unedisa) had been also conceded one of the two new DTT licenses granted by People's Party government.

Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from El Mundo in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial. In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a takeover by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.

Holdings

Newspapers

In 2006, the share of the newspapers controlled by the founding companies was 10% in the Spanish press market.

El Mundo
Expansión (business newspaper)
Marca (sports newspaper)
El Cronista (Buenos Aires)
Diario Información (Santiago, Chile)

Magazines

Actualidad Económica (business magazine)
NBA
Arte

Television

Unidad Editorial is the owner of Veo TV. Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.

Radio

Radio Marca (sports radio)

Ownership

Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup owns 96.48% of Unidad Editorial.

References

Citations

Bibliography

Artero-Muñoz, Juan Pablo; Zugasti, Ricardo; Hernánez-Corchete, Sira (2021). "Media Concentration in Spain: National, sectorial, and regional groups". Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico. 27 (3). Madrid: Ediciones Complutense: 765–777. doi:10.5209/esmp.72928. ISSN 1134-1629. S2CID 237788845.
García Santamaría, José Vicente; Pérez Serrano, María José; Alcolea Díaz, Gema (2016). "Unidad Editorial como «caso de estudio» sobre las limitaciones de la integración horizontal en el sector de la prensa". Textual & Visual Media (9). ISSN 1889-2515.