El Rey Network (Spanish for The King) is a media brand founded by Robert Rodriguez on December 15, 2013, that is currently owned in a joint venture with FactoryMade Ventures.
Until December 31, 2020, El Rey was a cable and satellite network, operated and distributed in-partnership with Univision Communications (now known as TelevisaUnivision), dedicated to exploitation-style programming targeting English-speaking Hispanic audiences. By March 2015, approximately 40 million households received El Rey;[1] its carriage would fall to 13 million households by the time of the network's closure.[2]