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Communication group founded in 1976 by
Antonio Asensio Pizarro, the currently president is Francisco Matosas.
In 1976 they launch the weekly Interviú, all a novelty in the politics of journalism, result of the transaction. On 26 October of 1978, the success of the magazine permitted the market to bring the journal
El Periódico, with an editorial orientation of Catalan centre-left wing.
In 1982, two new publications are brought out in the market: the weekly Tiempo de Hoy (´Time of Today´), which soon reached the leadership of sales in its area and the specialised magazine Viajar (´Travel´).
In 1986 the group gambled on the purchase of a series of regional and provisional journals (La Voz de Asturias, El Periódico de Aragón, the Editorial Bruguera, reconverted in Ediciones B, etc…).
In 1990 it was one of the first to concur to the private television licenses in Spain, through the Univisión-Canal 1 society. It wasn´t a success, until in 1992 they acquired an important participation in Antena3 TV that permitted them to control the station. In 1997 it had to come off the capital in favour of Telefónica (Spain´s biggest and main telecommunications company).
Since 1994, El Periódico was the first of its publications with an Internet version. A year later Zeta Multimedia, assumed the entry in the education and recreation software sector.
In 2001, with the failure of the founder Asensio Pizarro, the group enters a new phase with the bet on the distributors and producers of On Pictures and On TV, a local television. It also associates with Tele5, a terrestrial digital television channel of Madrid.
In 2007 the Grupo Zeta is put out on the market. Various communication groups push for the company that has entered in economic losses.
They form part of various groups of newspapers, general, regional, sporting press, celebrity magazines, for men, of cars, Internet portals, editorials, graphics and marketing companies.