The dominant Spanish-language network lost $2.9B in the third quarter, still has to pay off $10B in debt from the leveraged buyout that made an investment group headed by schlockmeister Haim Saban the net's owners--and in January a suit by Mexican TV giant Televisa trying to get out of the exclusive programming contract with UNI and sister channels TeleFutura and Galavision (which runs until 2017) goes to court--and the channels are so dependent on Televisa's programming (especially those novelas) that if it wins, UNI could go under:
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