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Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish-language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, (CEO as of June 29, 2011) COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva in April 2010. In recent years the network has reached parity with the U.S.’s five major English-language television networks, and is often a strong fifth, outranking The CW, with some fourth-place weekly placings during the summer months due to the network’s consistent schedule of new telenovelas all 52 weeks of the year.

Univision is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has its major studios, production facilities, and operations in Doral, Florida, a suburb of Miami. In 2009, another television studio was announced, Univision Studios, to be built in Doral.

Univision is available on cable and satellite in most of the country, with local stations in over 50 markets with large Hispanic and Latino populations and a national cable network feed distributed in markets without either the availability or the demand for a locally-based station. Most of these stations air full local news and other local programming in addition to network shows, and in major markets such as Los Angeles, New York, and Miami, Univision owned-and-operated station (O&O) newscasts are equally competitive with their English-language counterparts ratings-wise.

The lion’s share of Univision’s shows comprises of arrangement delivered and show by Mexican telecast system Televisa and Venezuelan telecast system Venevision, however a lot of Univision’s telenovelas are created by Televisa.

The popular program, the Saturday night theatrical presentation Sabado Gigante, facilitated by Don Francisco, has circulated on Univision since 1989; in that capacity, Univision is one of just three American broadcasting companies that pretense a first-run program amid Saturday primetime (Fox and CBS are the main others). Circumstance comedies and theatrical presentations to a great extent make up Univision’s weekend lineup.

Univision HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of the main Univision network that began operations on January 1, 2010 at 12:02 a.m./ET on its New York and Los Angeles affiliates WXTV-DT and KMEX-DT, respectively. Univision’s first program to be televised in high definition was the Tournament of Roses Parade, later that day.On January 18, 2010 Univision began airing Hasta que el Dinero nos Separe in high definition, it becoming the first telenovela on the network to be so transmitted. The telenovelas Un Gancho Al Corazon and Sortilegio also began airing in high definition on that date. Most other telenovelas now air in HD as well.

All of Univision’s 2010 FIFA World Cup coverage was also in HD. Noticiero Univision, Primer Impacto, ¡Despierta América!, Al Punto, Mira Quien Baila, and ¡Viva la Familia! have began airing in HD as well. Some movies also air in HD. DirecTV added the East Coast HD feed on April 28, 2010. Dish Network has been broadcasting the HD feed since May 12, 2010.