24 Horas (Mexican TV program)

24 horas (24 hours) was a Mexican television news programme broadcast from 1970 to 1998, presented by Jacobo Zabludovsky. It aired on el Canal de las Estrellas from Televisa for 27 years, starting from September 7, 1970. It was the longest running news show on Mexican TV, with almost three uninterrupted decades of broadcasting; it stopped airing on Monday, January 19, 1998, even though Zabludovsky continued working on Televisa until the year 2000. It was a very influential show, considering that it was the most watched news show in Mexico.

The news show was the first to be produced by a news team from the same network, without newspaper articles.

History
In 1952, Jacobo Zabludovsky began various tasks as an editor and substitute for news programs and in 1969, the Mexican television company Telesistema Mexicano (later called Televisa) established its General Directorate of Newscasts. Information spaces were created on that company's channels, initially of short duration and with a small budget for their production.

Journalists and collaborators
Many renowned Mexican journalists and newsreader started their career on this show. Examples include:


 * Jacobo Zabludovsky†
 * Joaquín López-Dóriga
 * Ricardo Rocha Reynaga
 * Juan Ruiz Healy
 * Lolita Ayala
 * Heriberto Murrieta
 * Fernando Schwartz
 * Guillermo Ortega Ruiz
 * Abraham Zabludovsky Nerubay
 * Juan Manuel Damián

Journalists

 * Graciela Leal
 * Luis Aguilar Chávez†
 * Salvador Estrada
 * Guillermo Pérez Verduzco†
 * Fernando Alcalá
 * Juan Manuel Rentería
 * Patricia Donneaud
 * Norma Meraz
 * Félix Cortés Camarillo
 * Gregorio Meraz
 * Guillermo Herrera
 * Rita Ganem†
 * Laura Padilla
 * Agustín Granados
 * Ana Cristina Peláez
 * Juan José Prado
 * Juan Francisco Castañeda
 * Francisco Ramírez
 * Fernando del Monte Ceceña
 * Magdalena García de León
 * Philippe Bac
 * Amador Narcia
 * Rocío Villagarcía
 * Laura Martínez Alarcón
 * Rafael Vieyra Matouk
 * Virginia Sendel-Lemaitre
 * Martha Venegas
 * Helen Sztrigler
 * Cynthia Lara
 * Ma. Cristina Espinoza
 * Julieta Berganza
 * Silvia Lemus
 * Maxine Woodside
 * Talina Fernández
 * Martha Renero
 * Francisco Patiño
 * Elda Sánchez Gaytán
 * Alejandro Llano
 * José María Rebolledo
 * Salvador Carrillo Martínez
 * Rocío González Trápaga
 * Raúl René Trujillo
 * Ricardo Peña Navarrete
 * Héctor Jaime Mendoza
 * Primitivo López
 * Juan Sebastián Solís
 * Susana Solís

Correspondents

 * Valentina Alazraki (Italy and the Vatican)
 * Philippe Bac (Canada and France)
 * Félix Cortés Schöler (Germany)
 * Ignacio Espinoza (Miami-USA)
 * Jesús Hermida (Washington)
 * Federico Knoblauch (Germany)
 * Mario Lechuga (Texas-USA)
 * María Almendra McBride
 * Marcelo Luis Ojeda (Argentina)
 * Alberto Peláez (Spain)
 * Joaquín Peláez
 * María Elena Rico (Soviet Union/Russia)
 * Horacio Rocha Staines (Great Britain)
 * Eva Usi (Germany)
 * Erica Vexler (Israel)
 * Ariel Roffe (Israel)
 * Kassia Wyderko (Yugoslavia)
 * Marissa Céspedes (New York)
 * José Luis Belmar (Sweden)

After the final broadcasts of 24 horas, most of the correspondents continued to work on the new worldwide information program of Televisa, being part of Noticieros Televisa, such as Alazraki, Belmar, Céspedes, Pelaez, and Wyderko. Later, some correspondents were replaced.