Owned by V-me Media Inc. Country United States Broadcast area United States | Picture format 480i (SDTV) Language Spanish Founded 2007 | |
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Slogan V-me Televisión Diferente (English: V-me done differently) Motto V-me Televisión Diferente (English: V-me done differently) Profiles | ||
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V-me ([ˈbeme], a pun on veme, "watch me") was the first and only Spanish broadcast television network in association with public television stations created for the United States Hispanic market. V-me delivers drama, music, current affairs, food, lifestyle, nature and educational pre-school content to its viewers.
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History
The 24-hour digital broadcast service was launched on March 5, 2007, and it is dedicated to entertain, educate and inspire families in Spanish with a contemporary mix of original productions, exclusive premieres, acquisitions, and popular public television programs from PBS and American Public Television, specially adapted for Hispanics.
The first venture of the media production and distribution company V-me Television Media Inc., it is a public-private partnership between WNET, a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and the investment firm Baeza Group, the venture capital firm Syncom Funds, and Grupo PRISA from Spain, one of the world's largest Spanish and Portuguese-language media companies. WNET is a minority partner in the for-profit venture.
In April 2013, a Florida-based private investor group took control of V-me Media, Inc., the U.S. Hispanic content and distribution company that owns Spanish-language network V-me and V-me Kids. Financial terms of the deal and the percentage of the ownership of the new investors was not disclosed. The V-me Board includes former AOL executive and founder and CEO of DailyMe.com, chairman of the board, Syncom managing partner Terry Jones and WNET’s VP and general counsel Robert Feinberg. V-me founder, Mario Baeza, stepped down as chairman, but will continue to have an ownership interest. LPM is the largest stakeholder in V-me.
Among the journalists who have worked for V-me are Jorge Gestoso, Juan Manuel Benitez, Luis Sarmiento, Alonso Castillo, Jackeline Cacho and Marián de la Fuente.
Carriage
In December 2016, V-me announced that it would phase out its affiliations with PBS stations during 2017, following the expiration of the network's 10-year contracts with many of these stations, and transition exclusively to being broadcast on ten over-the-air affiliates and as a cable and satellite channel. One of V-me's over-the-air affiliates were dropped by March 31, 2017; many of these affiliates had already chosen to replace V-me with a 24-hour PBS Kids channel, which launched in January 16, 2017. V-me lost several of its affiliates upon the launch of the PBS Kids channel. AT&T U-verse will remove the channel on May 30, 2017.
Programming
The network broadcasts a variety of programming in Spanish: