Universo (TV channel)

Universo

Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Network	NBC Telemundo
Headquarters	Miami Springs, Florida
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish Spanglish
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	NBCUniversal (Comcast)
Parent	NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises
Sister channels	Telemundo TeleXitos Telemundo Internacional
History
Launched	October 10, 1993 (1993-10-10)
Former names	GEMS Television (1993–2001) mun2 (2001–2015) NBC Universo (2015–2017)
Links
Website	NBCUniverso.com

Universo is an American pay television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises subsidiary of NBCUniversal. The network serves as a companion cable channel to the NBCUniversal's flagship broadcast television network NBC and, to some extent, its Spanish network Telemundo.

Aimed at Hispanic Adults between the ages of 18 and 49, the majority of its programming – which is tailored toward bilingual audiences – consists mainly of sports, scripted and reality series, and music programming. The network is headquartered in Miami Springs, Florida, while its master control operations are housed at the CNBC Global Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, which serves as master control facilities for most of NBCUniversal's cable networks.

The network was founded by Empresas 1BC as GEMS Televisión. In 2001, the network was acquired by Telemundo and re-branded as mun2. The network was renamed NBC Universo in February 2015 to align it with Telemundo's sister English-language network NBC. As of February 2015^[update], NBC Universo's programming was available to approximately 39.326 million pay television households (33.8% of cable, satellite and telco customers with at least one television set) in the United States.^[1]