:Grupo Vocento
{{Short description|Spanish communications company}}
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| type = {{Lang|es|Sociedad Anónima}}
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- Grupo Correo
- Prensa Española
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| foundation = {{start date and age|2001}}
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| location_city = Madrid
| location_country = Spain
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| area_served = Nationwide
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| industry = Mass media
| products = ABC, El Correo, Relevo
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Vocento, S.A., also known as Grupo Vocento, is a Spanish mass media group. Its flagship daily newspaper is the conservative and monarchist ABC,{{Cite journal|journal=Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico|url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESMP/article/view/72928/4564456558361|publisher=Ediciones Complutense|location=Madrid|title=Media Concentration in Spain: National, sectorial, and regional groups|volume=27|issue=3|year=2021|first1=Juan Pablo|last1=Artero-Muñoz|doi=10.5209/esmp.72928|issn=1134-1629|first2=Ricardo|last2=Zugasti|first3=Sira|last3=Hernánez-Corchete|pages=771–772|doi-access=free}} also publishing El Correo. Vocento was created in 2001 upon the merger of Grupo Correo with {{ill|Prensa Española|es}},{{Cite journal|journal=Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico|issn=1988-2696|doi=10.5209/ESMP.59952|title=Vocento o los límites de la prensa regional|first1=María José|last1=Pérez Serrano|first2=José Vicente|last2=García Santamaría|url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/ESMP/article/view/59952/4564456547000/0|year=2018|volume=24|issue=1|pages=311–322 |location=Madrid|publisher=Ediciones Complutense|doi-access=free|hdl=10016/39148|hdl-access=free}} the publisher of ABC. The group is also a player in the regional press sector, mainly owing to former properties of Correo (El Diario Montañés, La Verdad, Hoy, Ideal, Sur, La Rioja, El Norte de Castilla, El Comercio).{{Sfn|Pérez Serrano|García Santamaría|2018|p=314}} Through Net TV, the group also owns a digital terrestrial television license in Spain, which is leased to Paramount Network and Disney Channel.{{Sfn|Artero-Muñoz|Zugasti|Hernánez-Corchete|2021|p=771}}
History
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It has its origins in 1910 with the launch of El Pueblo Vasco, a newspaper founded by the Ybarra family, which merged with El Correo Español, another newspaper, in 1938. In the 1940s they obtained shares in the newspaper El Noticiero Bilbaíno and in 1948 they began its development with the acquisition of most of El Diario Vasco. The expansion outside the Basque Country (Spain) started in 1984 with the acquisition of shares in El Diario Montañés (a newspaper published in the nearby province of Santander).
In the 1980s, the holding company Corporación de Medios de Comunicación Social (Comecosa) was created, which acquired eight regional leading newspapers (Las Provincias, La Rioja, El Norte de Castilla, etc). In 1988, the newspapers La Verdad (Murcia), Hoy (Badajoz) and Ideal (Granada) were acquired. In 1990, the Diario Sur de Málaga was also incorporated.
Profile
The Group was established in 2001 as a result of the merger of Grupo Correo and Prensa Española. The company has its headquarters in Madrid.{{cite web|title=Country Profile: Spain |url=http://www.mediadb.eu/en/data-base/eu-laenderportraets/spanien.html |publisher=Institute of Media and Communications Study |access-date=21 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221222930/http://www.mediadb.eu/en/data-base/eu-laenderportraets/spanien.html |archive-date=21 February 2015 |df=dmy-all }} It is the national leader in the publication of general supplements (XLSemanal, MHMujer, El Semanal TV) and specialist magazines (Mi Cartera de Inversión, Motor 16 and corporate magazines). It also has held assets in the entertainment sector, in both radio ({{ill|Punto Radio|es}}) and television (Telecinco (13%),{{cite journal|author1=Enric Castelló|author2=David Domingo|title=Spanish media facing new media: a challenge to journalists?|journal=International Journal of Iberian Studies|date=2005|volume=18|issue=3|url=http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=c38d19e1-7bac-4754-8a34-a4d204a334c8%40sessionmgr4002&vid=0&hid=4210|access-date=3 December 2014}} Net TV, Fly Music), and in audiovisual production and distribution (Hospital Central, El Comisario and Pasapalabra, among others), as well as the Internet, with more than 19 million unique visitors. In addition, the company has a news agency, Colpisa.{{cite journal|author1=José Alberto García Avilés|author2=Miguel Carvaja|title=Integrated and Cross-Media Newsroom Convergence|journal=The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies|date=2008|volume=14|issue=2|url=http://con.sagepub.com/content/14/2/221.full.pdf+html|access-date=30 January 2015}}
Vocento is composed of over 120 companies, some of which are over a hundred years old. Since 8 November 2006, the Group has been listed on the Spanish stock market.{{cn|date=August 2023}}
Vocento and ABC opened a new headquarters in Josefa Valcárcel in July 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-reyes-inauguran-nueva-sede-vocento-y-abc-202007132127_noticia.html|website=ABC|date=13 July 2020|title=Los Reyes inauguran la nueva sede de Vocento y ABC|first=Almudena|last=Martínez Fornés}}
Holdings
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In 2006 the share of the group in the Spanish press market was 25,7%.{{cite book|author1=Andrea Czepek|author2=Melanie Hellwig|author3=Eva Nowak|title=Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe: Concepts and Conditions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZHATHfMo7gC&pg=PA275|access-date=12 December 2014|year=2009|publisher=Intellect Books|isbn=978-1-84150-243-4|page=278}}
{{Column list|
- ABC{{cite journal|author1=Andreu Casero-Ripollés|author2=Jessica Izquierdo-Castillo|title=Between Decline and a New Online Business Model: The Case of the Spanish Newspaper Industry|journal=Journal of Media Business Studies|date=2013|volume=10|issue=1|pages=63–78|url=http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10234/92211/Casero_Izquierdo.pdf?sequence=1|access-date=1 December 2014|doi=10.1080/16522354.2013.11073560|hdl=10234/92211|s2cid=73667009 |hdl-access=free}}
- El Correo
- El Diario Vasco
- El Diario Montañés
- La Verdad
- Ideal
- Hoy
- Sur
- {{ill|La Rioja (newspaper)|es|La Rioja (periódico)|lt=La Rioja}}
- El Norte de Castilla
- El Comercio
- {{ill|La Voz de Cádiz|es}}
- {{Lang|es|Las Provincias}}{{cite web|title=Las Provincias|url=http://www.vocento.com/en/regionales_prensa_las_provincias.php|work=Vocento|access-date=19 February 2015}}
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References
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External links
- [http://www.vocento.com Official website]
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Category:2001 establishments in Spain
Category:Companies listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange
Category:Conglomerate companies of Spain
Category:Companies based in Madrid