Prisa

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Promotora de Informaciones, SA
legal form Sociedad Anónima
ISIN ES0171743901
founding 1972
Seat Gran Vía 32, Madrid , SpainSpainSpain 
management Juan Luis Cebrián Echarri ( Chairman of the Board )
José Luiz Sanz ( CEO )
Number of employees 10,600 (2014)
sales EUR 1,281 million (2018)
Branch media
Website www.prisa.com

Prisa (acronym for Promotora de Informaciones SA ), headquartered in Madrid, is a publicly traded, worldwide leading Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking media group in education, news and information and entertainment. It is active in 22 countries.

background

The company was founded in 1972 by Jesús de Polanco ; Prisa was co-founded by José Ortega Spottorno, one of the sons of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset. The mass media of the Prisa Group include the daily El País , the daily sports newspaper Diario As and the business paper Cinco Días . In addition, some of the country's most important radio stations belong to the Prisa, especially the most popular broadcasting network Cadena SER , as well as music stations such as Los 40 Principales , M80 , Cadena Dial, Máxima FM and Radio Olé. The group also includes the TV provider Sogecable with its fourth TV channel Cuatro and the pay TV service Canal + .

In 2010 the entrepreneur Nicolas Berggruen joined Prisa with 900 million US dollars. With the entry into Prisa, Berggruen's investor group receives the majority of the capital of the Spanish media group. The previous main owner, the Polanco family, reduced their stake from 70 to 30 percent.

In Colombia , Prisa operates Caracol Televisión, the country's most watched radio and TV station.

The Prisa group is close to the Spanish social democratic party PSOE ; Both in the radio market and in newspapers, the biggest competitors are to be assigned to the conservative camp.

Brands belonging to Prisa

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicolas Berggruen joins the "El País" editor . welt.de. Accessed March 13, 2017

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