Carlos Slim to Launch TV Channel for Mexican Audience in U.S.

CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 1/20/2017, 2:33 p.m.

Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim has announced his intention to launch a channel tailored to the Mexican audience in the United States. The channel, called Nuestra Visión ("Our Vision" in English), will be provided by Publicidad y Contenido Editorial, a unit of the Slim-owned America Movil, which is the largest cellular phone company in Latin America. For Slim, a Mexican billionaire who has at times claimed the title of richest person in the world, the channel represents an opportunity to plant his flag in a large American television market. Nuestra Visión will offer a variety of programming, including news, movies and sports. The channel will launch this year, when tensions between the U.S. and Mexico.

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