Country United States | Language Spanish | |
Launched July 12, 2011 (2011-07-12) Owned by Bright House Networks (2011-2016)
Charter Communications (2016-present) Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
480i (SDTV) Broadcast area Tampa/St. Petersburg/Orlando, Florida | ||
InfoMás is an American Spanish-language cable news television channel that is owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Bright House Networks in May 2016. The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focused on the Tampa Bay Area and Central Florida. The channel is carried on Charter Spectrum digital channel 900 and in high definition on digital channel 1900.
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History
The channel traces its history to the launches of two separate Spanish language news channels owned by the former Bright House Networks. In March 2002, Tampa-based Bay News 9 launched a spin-off channel called Bay News 9 en Español, which provided news coverage and other news content focused the Tampa Bay area's Hispanic community. It was the regional news channel in the United States to provide local news and weather segments in Spanish 24 hours a day. The success of Bay News 9 En Español, Bright House launched a Spanish-language spin-off of its Orlando-based news channel Central Florida News 13, Central Florida News 13 en Español, in December 2006.
On March 11, 2011, Bright House Networks announced in a cost-saving measure that it would merge Bay News 9 and Central Florida News 13's respective Spanish-language news channels into a single channel called InfoMás, which would produce regional newscasts focused on the Tampa and Orlando areas with reports and political coverage from both areas; plans also called for the launch of a talk show produced out of News 13's Orlando studios, Spanish language broadcasts of professional baseball and basketball games. The channel formally launched on July 12, 2011. The channel maintains reporters based in both Tampa Bay and Central Florida.
Programming
Like its English language counterparts, InfoMás provides covers local, national and international news stories, weather forecasts, entertainment and health stories, and sports; weather segments on the channel also incorporate weather forecasts for South America, the Caribbean and Mexico.
The channel also produces Revista InfoMás, a half-hour weekday magazine program covering politics, immigration, education and other news subjects that affect the Hispanic and Latin American community residing in the central third of Florida. In lieu of a Spanish-language regional sports network in either of the two markets that InfoMás serves, the channel also carries sporting events including NBA games from the Orlando Magic, and Major League Baseball games from the Tampa Bay Rays and the Miami Marlins; game telecasts feature commentary and analysis in Spanish.