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IMG launches Serie A Pass OTT in Latin America

IMG announced the launch of Serie A Pass, a global OTT service delivering live coverage of every game from the top Italian League, in Latin America and Brazil. The subscription will cost USD 8.99 per month or USD 59.99 for an annual pass. The product...
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Facebook to live stream Champions League games in Latin America

Facebook has secured rights to broadcast certain UEFA Champions League games in Spanish-speaking Latin American territories until 2021, UEFA said on Wednesday. The social network will live stream for free 32 live matches each season, ...
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Netflix announces broadcast of its documentary on the City of Joy in DRC

Netflix will broadcast on September 7 "City of Joy", a documentary about a center eponymous welcoming women survivors of gender-based violence in the DRC. The information has just been provided by a press release from the Ame...

Oi speeds up FTTH deployment in Brazil

Brazilian telecommunications company Oi expects to reach 1 million FTTH home passed in 19 cities this year, and 6 million by 2020. In order to achieve this goa...

CNN ranks as #1 global news brand

CNN announced that it ranked as the #1 global news brand in June 2018, in desktop and mobile audience size across the US and 24 key international markets, including...

DHE to premiere “Taken” in Latin America

DHE announced that it will premiere exclusively for Latin America the series "Taken", based on the films of the same name. It will be available on Septem...

Telecom Argentina 1H18 revenues up 29.1%

Telecom Argentina announced that during the first semester of 2018, consolidated revenues increased by 29.1% compared to the same period last year to AR$ 64...

Argentina’s convergent bill delayed once again

Through a resolution published in the official gazette, the Ministry of Modernization of Argentina extended for a 90-days period the deadline for...

Netflix announces premiere date for new Colombian original series

Netflix announced that new Colombian original “Wild District” will premiere on October 19. The action series will feature 10 episode...

DStv Now apps now accessible to more devices

MultiChoice has launched three new apps for its DStv Now streaming service, for Apple TV, media players running Android TV and Samsung smart TVs. The pa...

Star Life new channel for the South African audience

Star Life - the brand-new HD lifestyle channel that is launching on DStv, GOtv and Openview on 27 August, 2018. Star Network has announced th...

SABC signs deal with MultiChoice to air on DStv

The SABC’s 24-hour news channel will continue being aired on DStv after the public broadcaster reached an agreement with MultiChoice. In a joint stat...

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American Cable Association asks to reverse AT&T antitrust decision

The American Cable Association (ACA), an entity that represents small and medium-sized operators, urged the appeals court to re...

Record launches new streaming service PlayPlus

Brazil's Record TV today has launched PlayPlus, its new OTT platform, which includes live programming, exclusive shows and third-party content, such as...

ZEE Mundo expands its presence in Latin America with new OTT service

Javier Casella, GM US Hispanic & Latin America of ZEE Mundo, spoke with NexTV News Latam about the launch of ZEE Mundo Play, ...

Turner to shut down sports channels in Brazil

Turner announced that it will shut down Esporte Interativo channels, as well as its production activities, during the next 40 days. The brand, however, ...

AT&T acquires full ownership of Otter Media

AT&T announced that it has acquired The Chernin Group’s controlling interest in Otter Media, the joint venture between the two companies. It will ...

Telefónica reiterates opposition to Telecom-Cablevisión merger

Telefónica again appeared before Argentina's Ministry of Commerce questioning the approval of the merger between Telecom and Cablevis...

DTT rolling out in Free State

According to a government press release, the Department of Communications has sped up to deliver digital migration benefits to residents of the Free State by teaming up...

Kenya Television Network launches KTN Burudani

After the launch of the 24-hour KTN News three years ago, the Kenya Television Network has a third station in works.The Road-based Television netwo...

Ivory Coast to complete digital migration by 2020

In Ivory Coast, Sidi Tiémoko Touré (photo), the Minister of Communication launched, on August 8, the construction work of the national network of di...

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Kudelski transfers STB and CAM businesses to Neotion

Kudelski Group announced that it has transferred its SmarDTV conditional access module (CAM) and set-top box businesses to SmarDTV Global, a newl...

Toolbox beats expectations with soccer World Cup

Toolbox, specialist in the development of OTT services and platforms, shared some data on the performance of its technology during the soccer World C...

Karate Combat launches dedicated channel on the Roku platform

Karate Combat announced the Karate Combat channel is available now on Roku players and Roku TV models throughout North America, most of ...

IFT starts investigation on substantial power in radio and TV

Mexico´s Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) has launched a process to determine the possible existence of economic agents with s...

Colombia’s DTT arrives in Cúcuta

Colombia’s National Television Board (JNTV) chose the city of Cúcuta to carry out a pilot test in the digital TV migration process, as part of the ‘Territorios TD...

Brazil switches off analog TV in four capital cities

Brazil will switch-off analog TV this Tuesday in the cities of Macapá (capital of the state of Amapá), Porto Velho (Rondonia), Palmas (Tocantins)...

Viacom expects content production unit to become a USD 1-billion business by 2022

During a conference with analysts to discuss the Q218 results, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish shared details about the new st...

Broadband drives VTR Q2 growth

VTR, Chile’s largest pay TV operator, added 22,000 RGUs in Q2, driven by growth in broadband and video RGUs, said Liberty Latin America in its earnings report announce...

Millicom to invest USD 50 million to expand network in Latam

Millicom has received USD 50 million that will be used to modernize its mobile network and Internet connectivity in seven Latin American ...

Irdeto: P2P piracy still dominant for movies and TV

Consumers who prefer piracy over legal video sites are ensuring that peer-to-peer (P2P) piracy continues to be the major method of accessing illeg...

Antena 3 Internacional expands distribution in Sky Mexico

Atresmedia announced that Antena 3 Internacional is expanding its presence in Sky Mexico. The Spanish channel is now available in the operat...

TV Pública and CCTV sign first co-production deal

Televisión Pública Argentina and Chinese broadcaster CCTV announced that they have signed the first co-production agreement between both countries ...

Disney CEO reveals more details about new OTT service

Disney CEO Bob Iger shared some details about the upcoming streaming service that the company plans to launch late next year. The executive said...

Paraguay wants to regulate telecom service cancellations

The Paraguayan ombudsman, Miguel Godoy, has presented a draft bill to regulate the contracts of telephone, Internet and pay TV companies. Spe...

Venezuela temporarily blocks Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle announced that its Spanish-language TV channel was temporarily unavailable in Venezuela on Saturday, August 4. This caused the reaction of ...

Pay TV operators expand channel offering in Mexico

Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) unveiled a report with the evolution of plans and tariffs of fixed telecommunications services, ...

Lionsgate and Universal Music sign TV deal

Lionsgate and Universal Music Group (UMG) signed a multiyear first-look television deal under which the companies will develop original scripted and unscri...

ZDF Enterprises sells final season of Scandi-crime series “Bron|Broen” to DirecTV Latin America

ZDF Enterprises announced that DirecTV Latin America has acquired the fourth and final sea...

Disney’s OTT content offering begins to take shape

Disney plans to launch its streaming service in 2019. Meanwhile, the company continues to prepare the content offering. A New York Times repo...

Colombia offers to sell stake in Coltel

Colombia’s government, through the Ministry of Finance, last week offered to sell its 32.5 percent stake in Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel), a Telefónica...

Globo’s new telenovela breaks ratings record

Brazilian broadcaster Globo announced that its new telenovela, ‘O Tempo Não Para’ (Time does not Stop, in a loose translation) reached 40.8 million...

YouTube announces new original Spanish-language shows

YouTube announced on Friday its first-ever slate of original Spanish-language shows, which will be available in its subscription service, YouTub...

Bolivia recorded 472,000 pay TV subscribers in 2017

According to data published in the 2017 Institutional Report of Bolivia's telecoms and transport regulator ATT, the pay TV market registered close...

Crunchyroll expands linear TV presence in Brazil

The anime streaming service Crunchyroll announced that, starting on August 6, it will expand presence on Rede Brazil’s programming. Its contents will...

APO Group And Kwesé Sports to promote Rugby across Africa

APO Group, the leading media relations consultancy for Africa and the Middle East, announced a strategic alliance with Kwesé Sports to prom...

Zuku complies with TCRA

Kenya’s Wananchi Group, the owner of pay television firm Zuku, has removed free-to-air (FTA) channels from its subscription list for Tanzanian customers in order to comply wi...

FOX Africa on the way to boost ratings

The network revealed, according to The Media Online, its latest news and previewed its upcoming programming. Van der Veer, General Manager of the Network said,...

iWayAfrica signs with Avanti Communication for internet connectivity in Africa

iWayAfrica, the pan-African provider of satellite telecommunications solutions in Africa, announced on August 8, 2018 t...

DStv retrieves local FTA channels in Tanzania from its bouquet

A week after the TCRA warned Multichoice Tanzania Ltd against airing FTA TV channels on its subscription list, the company took appropr...

Ugandan FA signs deal with StarTimes

The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) has bagged a 10-year broadcast and sponsorship agreement with pan-African pay-television operator StarTimes...

UPL deal falls through for SBL

It is over seven months since Sports Broadcasting Limited (SBL), were unveiled at Kampala Serena Hotel as new television sponsors for the Uganda Premier League (UPL), ...

TCRA plans to suspend Multichoice’s license

Tanzania’s telecommunications regulator is planning to suspend the license of Multichoice, owned by Naspers, for continuing to carry free-to-air channel...

Group Sipromad takes over Thomson Broadcast

On the 1st of August 2018, the news of the acquisition of Thomson Broadcast by Groupe Sipromad. This acquisition is a continuation of the international gr...

StarTimes to reduce subscription prices in September to up its game against competitors

The Chinese-owned pay TV operator, StarTimes, announced a price slash in its subscription fee for its classic ...

The Tour of Rwanda in the spotlight on Canal +

The 10th edition of the Tour of Rwanda, the annual meeting of African cycling enthusiasts, will be held this year from August 5 to 12, 2018. Canal +, p...

Showmax brings Succession to SA

Streaming exclusively on Showmax, Succession will hit South Africa soon, a show that suggests just the opposite in its skewering of the Roy family, one of the biggest...