A+E Networks is relaunching History en Español on November 7, 2016, with a fresh on-air look, new programming strategy, and more than twice the number of premiere hours.
The news was announced by Edward Sabin, Managing Director, Americas, and Head of Commercial Operations, International.
The new lineup includes docuseries such as Barbarians Rising and factual hits such as Hunting Hitler and Pawn Stars, along with scripted series. In addition, HEE is set to premiere Embajadores de la Mafia, which delves into the arrival of the Italian-American mafia in Latin America. The channel will also launch a Spanish language Facebook fan page.
“We’re injecting HEE’s primetime schedule with new genres of programming to serve an even wider segment of the growing Hispanic audience throughout the US as we continue to grow our channel,” said Sabin.
Featuring the best of History’s programming in Spanish, History en Español launched in 2004 and is widely distributed in the US on AT&T; Charter; Comcast; Cox; Dish; DIRECTV; Verizon FiOS among others.
