{{Short description|Mexican telecommunications company}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Dish México, S. de R. L. de C.V. | logo = Dish Mexico logo 2008.svg | logo_size = 200px | caption = | former_name = MVS DTH Holdings S. de R.L. de C.V. | type = [[Private company|Private]] [[S. de R. L. de C.V.]] | industry = [[Telecommunication]] | founded = {{Start date and age|2008}} | location = [[Mexico City]], Mexico | products = [[Direct broadcast satellite]] | parent = MVS Comunicaciones (100%) | website = {{URL|https://www.dish.com.mx/}} | footnotes = }} [[File:Dish mexcio.jpg|200px|thumb|Dish México [[Satellite dish|antenna]] on a roof.]] '''Dish México''' is a subscription [[satellite television]] service in [[Mexico]].<ref>{{Cite press release | url=https://ir.dish.com/news-releases/news-release-details/new-cross-border-promotion-dishlatino-proves-entertainment-has | title=New Cross-border Promotion from DishLATINO Proves Entertainment has No Borders | publisher=[[Dish Network]] | date=10 November 2014}}</ref> Since 2022, it has been wholly owned by [[MVS Comunicaciones]];<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/empresas/MVS-compra-el-49-de-Dish-Mexico-a-Echostar-20220913-0060.html | title=MVS compra el 49% de Dish México a Echostar | date=13 September 2022 }}</ref> prior to then, it was owned jointly by [[MVS Comunicaciones]] and [[EchoStar]].
==History== On 1 December 2008, Dish México began to operate in Mexico, after an agreement between [[Dish Network Corporation]], a spinoff of EchoStar, and the Mexican media conglomerate MVS Comunicaciones.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/echostar-launch-dbs-service-mexico-301745|title=EchoStar To Launch DBS Service in Mexico|website=Next TV|date=November 5, 2008|access-date=July 14, 2025}}</ref>
In 2011, Dish México had 2.3 million subscribers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.panoramaaudiovisual.com/en/2012/01/26/dish-mexico-cerro-2011-con-23-millones-de-suscriptores/|title=Dish México cerró 2011 con 2,3 millones de suscriptores|website=Panorama Audio Visual|date=January 26, 2012|access-date=July 14, 2025}}</ref> Dish México also added six HD channels ([[TNT (American TV network)|TNT]]; [[Space (Latin American TV channel)|Space]]; [[Fox Sports en Español]]; [[History Channel]]; [[Universal Channel]] and [[Sony Entertainment Television]]) as well as three new channels ([[Fox Latin America|Fox]]; [[National Geographic Channel|Nat Geo]] and [[Nat Geo Wild]]).{{citation needed|date=July 2025}} All of Dish México's channels programming are dubbed or subtitled in Spanish or originally Spanish language.{{citation needed|date=July 2025}}
Satellite TV service provider Dish announced the integration of Televisa's channels 2, 5 and 9, as well as TV Azteca's 7 and 13, in compliance with the telecommunications reform.
In 2013, Dish México announced that it would add national [[free-to-air]] television channels, including [[Televisa]] and [[Azteca (multimedia conglomerate)|TV Azteca]], due to the telecommunications reform enacted in June 2013, in which all satellite TV companies are forced to transmit television networks whose over-the-air footprint reaches 50% or more of the country.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://aristeguinoticias.com/1606/mexico/dish-ofrecera-senal-de-televisa-y-tv-azteca-por-reforma-de-telecom/ | title=Dish ofrecerá señal de Televisa y Tv Azteca | date=16 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.jornada.com.mx/2013/06/17/economia/017n4eco | title=Dish ofrecerá canales de Tv Azteca y Televisa | work=[[La Jornada]] | date=17 June 2013}}</ref> The broadcast of these channels was made official in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2013/09/12/dish-begins-carrying-over-the-air-networks-televisa-tv-azteca-in-mexico/|title=Dish begins carrying over-the-air networks Televisa, TV Azteca in Mexico|website=San Diego Tribune|date=September 22, 2016|access-date=July 14, 2025}}</ref>
In 2015, Dish Mexico was fined 43 million pesos (US$2.9 million) after its partnership with [[América Móvil]] was found to be unauthorized by Mexico's telecommunications regulator; [[Federal Telecommunications Institute]] determined that the two companies failed to notify regulators of contracts in advance time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/dish-mexico-telmex-fined-over-agreements-1420857156?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAjZahK_Ors-1_LU9a6DoyXPz31Z66Va9IC4JanbDmEYU74SfmDpL6rd&gaa_ts=68746768&gaa_sig=cXPn-X-v3JZ_IoO0T_2N0UATfwc53ATktyXe3v25tpgCGwh_jumHr-eYoZadoUj0XTvYK20TENodyzKQd3b1Cg%3D%3D|title=Dish Mexico, Telmex Fined Over Agreements|website=Wall Street Journal|date=January 9, 2015|author=Anthony Harrup|access-date=July 14, 2025}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Portal|Companies}} * {{Official website|https://www.dish.com.mx/}}
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