CNN launches its brand in Brazil and defines its new studios location

CNN Brazil, which is expected to start operating in the country during this year’s second half, launched its brand in the country and reported that it will establish its offices and studios on Paulista’s Avenue, in San Pablo. The logo includes the traditional CNN’s design, with the word "Brazil" under, created by the designers...

Kwesé Free TV gets terrestrial license in SA

South African people will be able to enjoy a new free-to-air terrestrial television service offering five free channels to viewers, comprising of a dedicated 24-hour sports channel.  Kwesé Free TV, which is 20% own by Econet Group (the parent of Liquid Telecom), is the first free-to-air terrestrial broadcaster to be licensed since e.tv received its l...

Netflix to cancel free trial month in Latin American, Caribbean and European countries

Netflix ended its one-month free offer for new subscribers in several Latin American, Caribbean and European co...

DirecTV to be available for United Airlines flights in Latin America

US airline United Airlines includes DirecTV’s offer for free, which is part of a catalog of more than 100 live TV channels and th...

Coloral TV joins Argentine Pay TV programming grid in April

Coloral TV, the Argentine TV channel focused on lifestyle content, will be available from next April 1st on Argentine’s pay TV operator Te...

Netflix not to be included in Apple’s OTT

Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, confirmed that its catalog will not be included in the one that Apple will release. Days ago, the company invited media fro...

HBO Go is available on LG Smart TVs in Latin America

HBO Go, the OTT of HBO, will have available the exclusive content of the channel on their LG Smart TVs throughout Latin America from this Wednesd...

Chilean Government aims to increase taxes to OTTs and equaling them with VAT

Chilean Finance Minister, Felipe Larraín, proposed to apply an up to 19%  increasement to OTTs taxes, in the context of t...

Zambezi Magic to roll out Date My Family Botswana

Local production houses have been invited to collaborate to produce Botswana's version of DsTV's popular dating show, Date My Family.The tv show air...

Ooredoo TV partners with Spuul to offer the best of Bollywood in MENA

Ooredoo TV has collaborated with Spuul, one of the most popular movie and TV content providers with over 10,000 hours of enterta...

Orange to roll out 4G in Guinea

Orange-Guinea has recently obtained a 4G operating license for the next ten years, in exchange for a check of 79.5 million euros signed to the Guinean authorities. Or...

Disney to buy Fox officially

Early this Wednesday, March 20th, The Walt Disney Company officially acquired 20th Century Fox, in an agreement valued at USD 71,300 million. The merger between the two ...

Disney and Fox present arguments to the FNE for not selling Fox Sports Chile

Chilean National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE) could decide in the coming days on the sale of Fox Sports in the coun...

Brazil discusses on VOD and pay TV regulations between 2019 and 2020

Brazilian National Film Agency (Ancine) published on the Oficial Union Newspaper the regulatory agenda of strategic issues that w...

Tigo Une to expand to other 26 Colombian locations

Mauricio Ramos, CEO of Millicom in Colombia -where the company operates under the Tigo brand-, gave details about the investment that the company i...

Telefonica reaches 20 thousand quadruple play subscribers in Peru

Movistar Total, offer that puts together mobile and fixed telephony services, internet and TV services for all its clients, reached ...

IFT approves Disney-Fox merger in Mexico with its sports channels sale

Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) approved the agreement between Walt Disney and 21st Century Fox entertainment assets...

The NBA partners with YouTube to offer its first African channel

The National Basketball Association has inked a deal with YouTube for an African channel to increase its visibility on the continent....

Canal+ to deploy its pay TV offer in Ethiopia

Canal + will soon deploy its pay-TV offer in the coming weeks in Ethiopia. The company has reached an agreement with Mr. Teodros for the distribution of...

Amazon Prime to offer African content “Housewives and Girlfriends” to international audiences

Long ago, having access to African content was difficult for international audiences. With the rebir...

DAZN could buy Fox Sports Brazil

Sports OTT DAZN, soon to be launched in Brazil, could be one of the  possible candidates to buy Fox Sports in the country, according to Brazilian journalists Eduardo...

Ultravision to offer pay TV through OTT in Mexican cities

Mexican operator Ultravisión launched its pay TV service through OTT in Puebla and Atlixco cities through the Conax Go live platform, which ...

Chilean Football Channel to broadcast five matches for free this week

Chilean Football Channel (CDF) will broadcast five matches for free of charge between this Thursday and Saturday, including the ...

Movistar Play reaches 242 thousand Chilean accesses in 2018

According to data published in Telefonica Chile’s financial results report up to December 2018, the OTT Movistar Play recorded 242 thousan...

Globo increases revenues in 2018, but Group has a 26% fall

Grupo Globo's balance sheet, published last March 12th, showed that Brazil's largest broadcaster managed to increase its revenues in 2018 b...

Uruguayan cable operators to debate about the country’s TV industry

‘Reinventing the box’, event in which Uruguayan cable TV operators Montecable, Nuevo Siglo and TCC met Uruguayan and regiona...

Movistar Chile recorded 27 thousand subscribers to Netflix in 2018

Movistar Chile announced that since October 27th, 2018, fixed and mobile customers can subscribe and pay Netflix from their monthly...

IFT requests USD 3.2 million from MVS to broadcast with a FTA channel in CDMX

Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) defined that Comband S.A. de CV, a subsidiary to which MVS Comunicaciones tra...

Netflix to increase its subscription prices in Mexico and Brazil

Netflix informed that it will modify its monthly subscriptions rate to all its clients in Mexico and Brazil. Both countries had not b...

DAZN arrives at Latin America with a new sponsorship model

DAZN Group announced significant changes in its structure.  In the Latin American Spanish market, where DAZN was not launched as an OTT yet...

Rakuten TV develops its international expansion

Rakuten TV, OTT platform based in Spain that includes films and TV series in its offer, announced its expansion to more than 30 European countries, wh...

Izzitv includes Netflix app in Mexico

Mexican telecommunications company Izzi announced Netflix’s app will be available for all clients who have hired Izzitv. The company clarified that none of its ...

New TV addressable advertising standard to be deployed in 2020

Disney, Turner, NBC, CBS and Discovery, together with Smart TVs company Vizio, formed the  Open Addressable Ready Project (OAR), a par...

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music are launched in Argentina and Uruguay

YouTube Premium, Google’s OTT SVOD non-advertising version already available in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico, was ...

TV Azteca develops eSports strategy in Latin America

Salina’s Group (owner of Mexican channel TV Azteca) ran an agreement with Allied Sports, sister company of the World Poker Tour (WPT), to develop...

Apple could launch its OTT in April

Apple invited media from all over the world to an event that will take place on March 25th at the Steve Jobs Theatre in the US, where it is expected to launch its...

DTV Play improves Smart TVs in Brazil

Brazilian Digital Terrestrial TV System (SBTVD), responsible for DTT development in Brazil, announced the launching of DTV Play latest version, which will allow...

Cablevision Group totalizes 3.5 million cable TV subscribers in 2018

According to Cablevision Group annual  results report up to December 31st, 2018, the company totalized 3.5 million cable TV subsc...

Red Intercable against Conmebol-Facebook agreement for Libertadores Cup releases

Conmebol and Facebook ran an agreement in October 2018 to broadcast  some Libertadores Cup matches on the social netw...

Vivo Brazil to integrate Netflix’s app with MediaKind

MediaKind announced it will integrate Netflix’s application to the Mediaroom TV platform, used by Vivo Brasil, to offer OTTs to all its fiber ...

TV Peru advances in selling its productions abroad

Hugo Coya, Peruvian Radio and Television National Institute (IRTP) Executive President, reported that the agency is in process of negotiating  the...

Argentina puts off analog blackout for 2021

Argentine Government ordered by decree to postpone the analog blackout for two years, originally scheduled for this year August 31st. Decree 173 delays th...

Movistar Play to be launched in Mexico

According to Telefónica Mexico, Movistar Play will be launched in that country on March 21st. Its offer will include its own production series, films, exclusiv...

Facebook becomes criticized in Argentina for Libertadores Cup broadcasting

In the OTT Facebook Watch Libertadores Cup broadcastings debut,  social network received several complaints about the poor ...

Insight TV introduces linear channel on Jawwy TV in MENA

The deal, managed by content producer and distributor SAWA Rights Management (SRM), will offer Insight’s programming to regional viewers 24 h...

Onatel obtained a grant with Atlantic Bank to roll out 4G in Burkina Faso

As part of the financing of the renewal of the license to operate telecommunications services in Burkina Faso, Onatel has si...

BBC Studios Africa to screen the South African version of First Dates

BBC Studios Africa will screen the First Dates South Africa for BBC Lifestyle (DStv 174).Rapid Blue will be making First Dates S...

MBC seizes broadcast rights for Formula One

MBC Group has seized the rights to the FIA Formula One races. The broadcaster will provide F1 racing free-to-air.The deal gives MBC five-year exclusive ri...

MTN to launch 4G+ in Ghana

MTN Ghana has introduced its 4G+ service to offer faster data speeds with the broadest coverage for its customers.The 4G+ service runs on 4G LTE Advanced technology using ...

Vodacom to roll out eSIM support in SA

Mobile operator Vodacom has introduced support for eSIM devices in South Africa along with a new additional service, called OneNumber, that offers users to hav...

Kwesé collaborates with 234Bet to air the English Premier League in Nigeria

Kwesé has inked a pioneering advertising deal with online betting company 234bet for the English Premier League transmiss...

Magical Kenya Open will stream live on Kenya Television Network (KTN News)

The Standard Group PLC has acquired exclusive broadcasting rights as the lucrative European Challenge Tour event official m...

New animated series ‘Zafari’ screened in MENA to promote tolerance

Spacetoon TV, has premiered Zafari an 11- minute animated series the first children's TV channel in Mena.Zafari reinforces the ...

Fox’s popular TV series to air on StarTimes ON

The Walking Dead and Empire will screen on StarTimes online video platform as from March, 22. Besides the two TV shows, X-Files, 24, American Dad, Mo...

MTN confirmed the relaunched of Mobile Money service in South Africa

MTN has announced the relaunched of Mobile Money (MoMo), alongside new media offerings which will increase digital revenue.To not...

Safaricom customers to use M-Pesa for Ali Express purchases

Ali Express customers in Kenya can now pay for goods using M-Pesa following a partnership deal with Safaricom and Ant financial, the world...