Albavisión
media company
Albavisión (formerly Prolasa and Televideo Services) is a multinational media company based in Miami and owned by controversial Mexican-turned-Guatemalan businessman Remigio Ángel González, operating primarily in Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America.
Part of the company's modus operandi involved the buying of failing television stations in the region, with González having control on a substantial amount of the channel's programming, mainly telenovelas and US feature films bought in block deals for several territories.
History
Prolasa, S.A. was founded in 1975 and is currently one of Albavisión's figurehead companies, registered in Panama. The current conglomerate was adopted in May 2008, with the name being derived from his wife, Alba Elvira Lorenzana. This also coincided with its first major project in high definition, Copa Centroamericana de Fútbol, to which it acquired the broadcast rights for the region. In the last few years up to 2008, its founder Ángel González had been surrounded by top-level sales executives and international program distributors, strengthening the network, becoming one of the market's most-solicited buyers. The company also started producing telenovelas, in association with Peruvian company Chroma, in a ten-year contract which was set to expire in 2018, and planned the launch of Canal Latinoamericano de Noticias, using the resources of its stations, in the second half of 2008, which was set to broadcast from Bogotá. The stations are programmed by Ángel González himself.
In 2008, as Televideo Services, it signed a ten-country block deal with Power, a European indie producer and distributor, to carry titles from the Power and RHI catalogs on its channels.
In 2010, the network signed an output deal in block with HIT Entertainment, to provide its 600-hour catalog of preschool series to its stations.
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