TV Azteca
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TV Azteca is a news media source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Right.
TV Azteca rated Lean Right in an April 2025 Independent Review.
An AllSides April 2025 Independent Review returned a Lean Right bias rating for TV Azteca.
An AllSides reviewer found that TV Azteca, on China's response to Trump's tariffs, focused on the potential negative ramifications of these tariffs on agriculture and technology. However, the outlet did not explicitly take a side on the tariff war; instead choosing to define concepts like “antidumping” to better inform their audience of the real impacts of the tariff war. Moreover, TV Azteca showcases a clear bias against cartels in Mexico, noting how the capture of several Sinaloa cartel members would be a “big blow” to the Sinaloan cartel. In Mexican politics, the Left typically endorses the deconstruction of cartels through the elimination of poverty and inequality, enforcing the ideology of “abrazos, no balazos” (hugs, not bullets) to reduce cartel membership and violence. Additionally, TV Azteca – on the rejection of Mexican politician Yunez Marquez from the Morena Party (Left party in Mexico), proposed that he could join the Partido Verde Ecologista de Mexico (Right “green party” in Mexico, with several militants in the party). This recommendation from the outlet indicates a certain degree of rejection of the controversies associated with the aforementioned party; a recommendation that Left or Center outlets would hazard against due to these controversies. TV Azteca holding oppositionary views on cartels to the Left, not indicating strong reactions to Trump’s tariffs, as well as promoting a Right party for a politician rejected by the prominent Left party of Mexico (Morena), altogether indicates a Lean Right bias.
What a "Lean Right" Rating Means
Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Right display media bias in ways that moderately align with conservative, traditional, libertarian, or right-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum.
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TV Azteca Owner on “Woke Language”
Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of TV Azteca, has gone on record urging his company to avoid using “woke language.” Notably Ricardo Salinas conglomerate, Grupo Salinas, has been a long supporter of PRI in Mexico (Lean Right party).
TV Azteca Ownership and Funding
Funding and ownership do not influence bias ratings. We rate the bias of content only.Owner: Ricardo Salinas Pliego
TV Azteca is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, known as the second-largest media company in Mexico and in direct competition with TelevisaUnivision. TV Azteca was founded in 1993 by Ricardo Salinas Pliego – who remains the owner as of May 2025. Funding for TV Azteca is primarily done through advertisements and product placements/sponsorships.