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UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA
DE NUEVO LEON
FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA
MECANICA Y ELECTRICA

MASS MEDIA AND ARTS IN MEXICO

Nombre: Jean Karlo Corpus Monsivais
Matricula: 1823105
Materia: Cultura de la Lengua Inglesa
Semestre: 8vo
Hora: V1
Grupo: 015

Ing. Guillermo Roberto Rossano Pérez

Fecha: 21/ Mayo / 2023

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Mass media and arts in Mexico.

Mexico offers an abundance of news and informaton choices across a wide
spectrum of traditional and modern media.
Mexico has quite a lot of newspapers, both national dailies and regional
papers. Free broadcasttelevision is dominated by two companies – Televisa
and TV Azteca – with small localbroadcasters making little impression on the
market. Pay TV and Internet services areubiquitous services across the
country and there is strong competition in the market for radio,especially in
Mexico City.

Mass Media.
Television.
Open broadcast television in Mexico is
dominated by two companies –Televisa and
TV Azteca,which operate the only national
networks.
Televisa’s flagship channel is Channel 2,
and it also runs channels 4, 5 and 9.
TV Azteca’s main channel is Channel 13,
and it also runs Channel 7, and Channel 40
in Mexico City.
The main fare on Mexican television includes news,soap operas (Mexican
soap operas are popular in manyparts of the world), sports, game shows,
reality shows,talk and gossip shows, as well as an abundance of U.S.programs
(such as cartoons, sitcoms and dramas)dubbed into Spanish.

Radio.
Mexican radio offers a large variety of programming, from news, talk shows,
rock and popmusic in English and Spanish, regional Mexican music, classical
music, etc.
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As with television, the amount of time given to commercial breaks can be

exasperating.
Stations and frequencies vary from region toregion, but the biggest radio
groups post their programming and have live
streaming onInternet. The principal
commercial radio broadcasters in Mexico
are:
•Radio Centro
•Radio Acir
•Radio Formula
•Televisa Radio
In addition, Radio Unam is run by the
National Autonomous University, and
features morecultural content than
commercial radio.

Newspapers.
Circulation of Mexican
newspapers is small
compared to more
developed countries, and
mostdo not make a lot of
noise about their actual
readership numbers.
Reforma, the sister
publication of
Monterrey’s El Norte, is
published in Mexico
City. With itslaunch in
1993, Reforma started a newera of independent newspapers, at onepoint using
its own journalists todistribute the paper following a boycott by the
distributors’ union in the capital.It remains one of the newspapers withthe
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most credibility. Its Internet sitecurrently requires a paid subscription for

access.
Magazines.
As in the case of newspapers, relatively few people in Mexico read magazines,
although thereare a number of interesting publications, from weekly news
magazines to monthly fashion andother specialized publications.
Proceso is a weekly political magazine, mostly critical of the government. It
dedicates a lot of space to drug trafficking and other contentious issues.
Vertigo, published weekly, provides asummary of the week’s news, but
carrieslimited original content.
Milenio, the forerunner to the daily Milenio, offers weekly news and
commentary.
Tiempo Libre is the place to find out what’s on in theater, cinema, concert,
recitals, dance, museums, etc.
Mexico Desconocido is Mexico’s answer to National Geographic, with
features on a host of cultural and natural wonders in Mexico. It appears
monthly.

Internet.
Internet is readily available in most
parts of Mexico, with about 5 million
active Internet accounts in the country.
According to the telecommunications
regulator, there were 22.8 million users
in 2007, of whom7.8 million use
Internet at home, and 15 million either
at work or public Internet access sites.
Mexico’s government operates an ‘open internet’ policy and, to date, has not
censored(blocked) access to any internet sites orinternet companies for
political reasons.
Internet Service Providers in Mexico
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The main Internet provider isTelmex, thecountry’s incumbent telephone

company. Itshigh-speed (DSL) internet access is known as‘Infinitum’; it also
offers a dialup service forvery remote areas where DSL is currently
unavailable.

ARTS MEXICO
Traditional Music
From ska to rock, Latin alternative, pop and heavy metal, the musical genres
popular across Mexico are not dissimilar to those that attract attention in other
countries. However, despite the presence of these popular genres, music.al
traditions across the country remain deeply rooted
Music
The North of Mexico
The north of Mexico may be a
vast desert-scape, but it has
some fantastic traditional music
associated with it. The first and
most obvious style hailing from
northern Mexico is, of
course, norteño (literally,
‘northern’). It supposedly
originated near the U.S.-Mexico
border in the early 20th century and is connected to similar styles such
as ranchera (a lyrical style focusing on love and patriotism, from
which norteño was adapted) and banda. Each northern state has its own
distinct norteño style, though; for example, norteño chihuahuense uses a sax
as well as the typical accordion.
The Baja Peninsula
The Baja California peninsula, which is often considered somewhat of an
outlying Mexican territory both in terms of geography and cultural influence,
is another area in which norteño music dominates; however, Baja tends to
bring in more modern influences to its traditional musical style, through the
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use of cumbia rhythms and rock. What’s more, musical trios known
as cochis are regularly seen playing polkas, norteño music and corridos.
Theatre
Performance and theatre in
Mexico dates back to the Aztecs.
Although there is no written
works or translations of the
Aztecs, early missionaries have
documented seeing the Aztecs,
dance, sing and perform.
Early Mexican theatre developed
from Spain from just after the
Spanish invasion and Spain
continued to influence theatre in
Mexico until the Mexican
revolution in the early part of the
20th century.
War led to the decline in
Mexico's theatre traditions in the first part of the 19th century. Spanish
classicism, European romanticism and then nationalistic pieces all took their
turn as the main feature reflected in Mexican theatre.

Movies
Mexican cinema in recent
years has gone
from strength to strength,
but it’s yet to live up to
the Golden Age of
Mexican Cinema that
spanned from 1936-1959.
During this period,
Mexican cinema took centre stage as the epicentre of commercial cinema in
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Latin America, and began to be recognised on an international level. Here’s a

short history of the Época de Oro del Cine Mexicano.

Mexico is a country rich with

beauty and culture, from cuisine,
to music, to film. We’ve put
together this list of the Best
Mexican Movies of All Time as
a guide to get you started
exploring Mexico’s fascinating
culture and the sensual Spanish
language. We’ll cover the 5 Best
Mexican Movies of All Time, as
well as the Gangster, Romantic,
Comedy, Horror, and more!
Happy viewing!
5 Best Mexican Movies of All
Time
1.Pan’s Labyrinth
2.The Exterminating Angel
3.Amores Perros
4.Canoa: A Shameful Memory
5.The Holy Mountain
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