Unidad Editorial

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| location = Avenida de San Luis 25

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| owner = RCS MediaGroup (96.48 %)

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Unidad Editorial, S.A. is a Spanish media company. It owns the newspapers {{Lang|es|El Mundo}}, {{Lang|es|Expansión}} and {{Lang|es|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 {{ill|Grupo Recoletos|es}}.{{cite journal|author1=Laura Chaqués Bonafont|author2=Frank R. Baumgartner|title=Newspaper attention and policy activities in Spain|journal=Journal of Public Policy|date=April 2013|volume=33|issue=1|pages=65–88|doi=10.1017/S0143814X12000219|hdl=2445/49364|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0143814X12000219|access-date=24 April 2015|hdl-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/2007-04-12/la-italiana-rcs-mediagroup-cierra-la-compra-de-recoletos-por-1-100-millones_797753/|website=El Confidencial|title=La italiana RCS MediaGroup cierra la compra de Recoletos por 1.100 millones|date=12 April 2007}}

Grupo Recoletos was the publisher of the newspapers Marca, {{Lang|es|Expansión}} and the magazines Actualidad Económica and Telva.{{Sfn|García Santamaría|Pérez Serrano|Alcolea Díaz|2016|p=137}} Unedisa was the publisher of {{Lang|es|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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elespanol.com/bluper/television/20200324/indecente-mercadeo-licencias-tdt-vivo-nunca/111739077_0.html|website=Bluper|title=El indecente mercadeo de licencias TDT, más vivo que nunca|date=24 March 2020|first=Juanma|last=Fdez|publisher=El Español}}{{sfn|Artero-Muñoz|Zugasti|Hernánez-Corchete|2021|p=771}}

Following the leaving of Pedro J. Ramírez from {{Lang|es|El Mundo}} in 2014, RCS MediaGroup asserted a tighter control over Unidad Editorial.{{sfn|Artero-Muñoz|Zugasti|Hernánez-Corchete|2021|p=771}} In 2016, RCS MediaGroup was acquired in a takeover by Urbano Cairo, who had support from the Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.{{Sfn|García Santamaría|Pérez Serrano|Alcolea Díaz|2016|p=139}}

Holdings

=Newspapers=

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

{{Lang|es|El Mundo}}
{{Lang|es|Expansión}} (business newspaper){{cite web|title=Country Profile: Spain|url=http://www.mediadb.eu/en/data-base/eu-laenderportraets/spanien.html|work=Institute of Media and Communications Study|access-date=21 February 2015}}
{{Lang|es|Marca}} (sports newspaper)
El Cronista (Buenos Aires)
Diario Información (Santiago, Chile)

=Magazines=

Actualidad Económica (business magazine){{cite web|title=Actualidad Economica|url=http://www.publicitas.com/en/spain/media-solutions/factsheet/mediadata/actualidad-economica-spain/?PARAM1=UO4AM2#.VMx8xmSsXRA|work=Publicitas|access-date=31 January 2015}}
NBA
Arte

= Television =

Unidad Editorial is the owner of {{ill|Veo Televisión|es|Veo Televisión (empresa)|lt=Veo TV}}.{{sfn|Artero-Muñoz|Zugasti|Hernánez-Corchete|2021|p=770}} Through Veo TV, Unidad Editorial has one of the DTT licenses in Spain, leased to third parties.{{sfn|Artero-Muñoz|Zugasti|Hernánez-Corchete|2021|p=771}}

=Radio=

{{ill|Radio Marca|es}} (sports radio)

Ownership

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

References

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{{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=765–777|s2cid=237788845 |doi-access=free}}
{{Cite journal|year=2016|title=Unidad Editorial como «caso de estudio» sobre las limitaciones de la integración horizontal en el sector de la prensa|first1=José Vicente|last1=García Santamaría|first2=María José|last2=Pérez Serrano|first3=Gema|last3=Alcolea Díaz|journal=Textual & Visual Media|issn=1889-2515|issue=9|url=https://textualvisualmedia.com/index.php/txtvmedia/article/view/207/175}}