What is TUDN?
TUDN is the sports brand of TelevisaUnivision, carried across the group's television channels and its ViX streaming service in Mexico and the United States. The corporate parent was created when Univision and Televisa completed their transaction on 31 January 2022; on the company's own account Televisa contributed four broadcast channels, 27 pay-television channels, the Videocine studio, the Blim TV subscription service and the Televisa trademark, while Univision contributed the Univision and UniMás broadcast networks, nine cable networks, 59 television stations, 57 radio stations and the PrendeTV streaming platform.[1]
The brand replaced Televisa Deportes as the group's sports identity. Background reference dates the Mexican channel to 22 July 2009, when it launched as Televisa Deportes Network, and places the change to TUDN in May 2019.[2]
The published site carries match centres, standings and a rolling live-scores service alongside written coverage, video and a 24-hour streaming feed.[3]
What does TUDN cover?
Football is the spine of the service. The site's own navigation runs Liga MX fixtures, results, standings and club pages, the Mexican national team, and the European and South American club competitions — the UEFA Europa League, LaLiga, the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana among them — together with the Campeones Cup between Liga MX and Major League Soccer champions.[3]
Beyond football the published sections cover boxing, the NFL, MLB, the NBA, tennis, lucha libre, Formula 1 and the Olympic Games, the last of these carrying a dedicated Milano Cortina 2026 section.[3]
The editorial output is built around the matches the group holds rights to. For the Clausura 2026 Liga MX tournament, TUDN and ViX Premium carried América, Atlas, Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Pumas and Santos Laguna, and shared Toluca with FOX One and TV Azteca.[4] A survey published in August 2026 recorded the same group of clubs with the TelevisaUnivision channels and ViX for the Apertura 2026 tournament.[5]
What are TUDN's reach and standing?
The clearest measure of standing is the rights position rather than an audience figure. For the Clausura 2026 tournament TUDN and ViX Premium carried six Liga MX clubs outright — América, Atlas, Cruz Azul, Monterrey, Pumas and Santos Laguna — and shared Toluca.[4] The same picture held for the Apertura 2026 tournament, with the group's open channel and streaming service carrying América, Cruz Azul, Pumas, Monterrey, Santos and Atlas.[5]
TelevisaUnivision calls TUDN the No. 1 Spanish-language sports network in the U.S. and Mexico and states that the combined company holds what it calls the most compelling portfolio of Spanish-language sports rights in the world; both are the company's own characterisations of itself.[1]
No independently audited Mexican audience measurement for the brand could be retrieved. The site publishes across television, the ViX subscription tier and a free 24-hour streaming channel, so the audience is split across carriers that are not reported on a common basis.[3]
Since when has TUDN existed?
Three dates have to be kept apart. Background reference gives 22 July 2009 as the launch of the Mexican channel under the name Televisa Deportes Network, and May 2019 as the point at which the Mexican and United States sports operations were brought under the single TUDN brand.[2]
The corporate owner is newer than either. Univision and Televisa completed the transaction that created TelevisaUnivision on 31 January 2022, and the company's announcement of that day sets out what each side contributed and names SoftBank Latin America Fund, Google and The Raine Group among its investors.[1]
The published site carries a 2026 Univision Communications copyright notice, which reflects the United States operating entity within the group rather than the date of the brand.[3] The rights position is more recent still: the club-by-club allocations recorded here were those in force for the Clausura 2026 and Apertura 2026 tournaments.[4] [5]
Why does TUDN matter in Mexico's sport?
Mexican league football is not sold as a single national package. Liga MX clubs negotiate their own television deals, which is why a single tournament is spread across TUDN and ViX Premium, TV Azteca, FOX One, ESPN and Disney+, Prime Video and Claro Sports, and why following the whole competition requires several subscriptions.[4] Within that structure the TelevisaUnivision channels and ViX carried six clubs outright and shared a seventh.[4]
The structure is under review. A survey published on 21 August 2026 reported that the league intends to recover and centralise the rights by 2028, first by renegotiating the clubs' long-term contracts and then by offering packages to open-signal broadcasters and streaming platforms; the same account expects both TelevisaUnivision and TV Azteca to continue under a competitive package model rather than exclusive arrangements.[5] That is a stated intention, not a concluded agreement.
The wider mechanics of how such packages are assembled and sold are set out under broadcast rights.
References
- TelevisaUnivision — Univision and Televisa Complete Transaction to Create “TelevisaUnivision”, 31 January 2022. Accessed September 2026.
- Wikipedia (background) — TUDN (Mexican TV channel): launch as Televisa Deportes Network and 2019 rebrand. Accessed September 2026.
- TUDN — official site: sections, live scores and streaming channel. Accessed September 2026.
- El Informador — Liga MX: estas son las televisoras que transmitirán a cada equipo en el Clausura 2026, 9 January 2026. Accessed September 2026.
- Récord — El panorama actual de los derechos de transmisión de la Liga MX, 21 August 2026. Accessed September 2026.