El Sitio (website)

El Sitio was a Latin-American internet portal founded in 1997,^[1] by Roberto Vivo-Chaneton and Roberto Cibrian-Campoy. Founded in Argentina, El Sitio was considered one of the principal Spanish language internet companies of the late 1990s dot-com bubble.^[2]

El Sitio went public on Nasdaq under symbol LCTO on December 10, 1999, in an IPO consisting of 8,200,000 common shares at a price of $16 per share.

During the .com bust of the 90s, El Sitio lost almost all of its market value on Nasdaq.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, El Sitio was merged with Ibero-American Media Partners II Ltd. to create Claxson Interactive Group Inc. (OTC BB: XSON)^[3]^[4]

As of late 2005, Venezuelan media group Cisneros owned 44.8% of Claxson and Dallas-based private equity fund Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst held 35.2%.

As of 2020, the site was no longer available.

References

↑ Wallin, Michelle (1 October 1999). "Argentina's El Sitio Challenges Rivals With Interactive Focus". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
↑ Wallin, Michelle (1999-10-01). "Argentina's El Sitio Challenges Rivals With Interactive Focus". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
↑ Clarín, Redacción (2000-10-31). "El grupo venezolano Cisneros se quedó con el portal El Sitio". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-04.
↑ Wilkinson, Kenton T. (2015-09-25). Spanish-Language Television in the United States: Fifty Years of Development. Routledge. p. 227. ISBN 978-1-317-68860-0.

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