Argos Media Group

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Argos Media Group

Formation	1992; 34 years ago (1992)
Founders	Carlos Payán, Epigmenio Ibarra and Hernán Vera
Type	cinema producer
Location(s)	200 Mexico Avenue Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Owners	Carlos Payán, Epigmenio Ibarra and Verónica Velasco
Website	www.argoscomunicacion.com

Argos Media Group is a television and film production company owned by Epigmenio Ibarra based in Mexico City.

History

The company started as the telenovela-production unit for TV Azteca, producing many telenovelas for this network, including Nada personal and Mirada de mujer. It also co-produced Sexo, pudor y lágrimas in 1999 directed by Antonio Serrano who has directed five telenovelas and another film (Lucía, Lucía) with Argos. In October 2000, Argos signed a contract with Telemundo to produce telenovelas for this network. The deal ended in 2006 with the production of Marina. Argos also owns an acting school, CasAzul, a music unit, Argos Música, and a theater production unit, Argos Teatro. Most of the content produced by Argos is filmed in the majestic Estudios Churubusco that were used to produce all the films during the Mexican gold film era.

In 2007, Argos briefly re-signed with TV Azteca, producing Mientras haya vida, Vivir sin ti and Deseo prohibido. In 2010, Argos signed with Cadenatres to produce 480 hours of programming for the network. In 2012, Argos re-signed with Telemundo to produce two telenovelas per year. Argos has also produced television series for HBO Latin America and MTV Latin America. From 2019 to 2022, Argos produced five television series for Netflix, including Yankee and Donde hubo fuego.

In June 2023, TelevisaUnivision purchased Argos. The first production under the new ownership was Con esa misma mirada.

Units

• Argos Comunicación, Argos Cine – Film
• Argos Música
• Argos Teatro
• CasAzul – Acting school

Zoom TV

• Zoom.tv (www.zoom.tv)

It started out as a website with original content, a reality show with fixed cameras in a real house called Inquilino. Visitors to this website were able to go into a chat room and talk live to the renters living in the house. It also had an internet radio station where Osvaldo Benavides hosted a weekend show.

Zoom TV was the precursor of what Argos' dubbed as "la tercera mirada" (the third look), a new television station, that would compete directly with the giant Televisa and TV Azteca (whom they had just broke ties with). It was in January 2002 when this new TV station would emerge, but legal issues prevented Argos from tubing and this venture as well as the website disappeared.

The programming was to be color-coded based on the content it was showing. For example, red was to be for adults only, while yellow was for the whole family. CEO of Argos, Epigmenio Ibarra does not lose hope that some day, he will have an output in his homeland Mexico, but for now he will only work as a content generator.

Film

• Cronica de Una Muerte Anunciada (2010)
• Fuera del cielo (2007)
• Lucía, Lucía (2003)
• Ladies' Night (2003)
• La habitación azul (2002)
• Vivir mata (2001)
• Nocturno chilango
• Sexo, pudor y lágrimas (1999)

Television

References

External links

• (in Spanish) Interview with Epigmenio Ibarra
• (in Spanish) Interview with Epigmenio Ibarra on todito.com
• (in Spanish) Argos Comunicación Webpage