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DirecTV exploring eSports business models

DirecTV (AT&T) is exploring the addition of eSports to programming. Guillermo Barreto, ‎AVP Sports Content at DirecTV Latin America, told NexTV News Latam that eSports “are booming” but acknowledged that "the business model has not yet been found, at l...
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New OTT service to launch in Mexico

The new streaming platform Sportflix, which will allow access to live sports, will be available in Mexico in August. According to information on its website, the service offers three subscription plans and it has already opened a pre-registration period.This ini...
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Lionsgate licenses Candy Crush TV show to Dubai’s Eagle Films

Dubai’s Eagle Films bagged the rights to Lionsgate’s new TV game show Candy Crush in the MENA regions. Beelink Productions is to start the production of the Arabic version of Candy Crush later this year. Candy Crush launched on CBS in...

América Móvil registered 278,000 pay TV disconnections in Q2

América Móvil announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2017. The company reported 21.8 million pay TV units, a 0.8% an...

Telesur goes HD

News channel Telesur commemorated its 12-year anniversary on July 24 and announced that is now available in high definition. This initiative "responds to the new demands of the audie...

Uruguay ended 2016 with 731,000 pay TV subscribers

According to a recent report by regulator Ursec, Uruguay ended 2016 with 731,000 pay TV subscribers, 2.1% more than the previous year. Of this tota...

TV Azteca reports 12% growth in ad sales

Mexico's TV Azteca announced last week its financial results for the second quarter. Net sales for Q217 were MX$ 3,726 million (USD 212.8 million), 9% higher...

HBO announces new series from “Game of Thrones” creators

“Game of Thrones” showrunners and creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will return to HBO for the new original series “Confederate”. The...

Liberty Media interested in Univision stake

John Malone’s Liberty Media could be interested in buying a “significant stake” in Spanish-language broadcaster Univision, according to a report in The Wa...

Telecom Regulator urges internet service providers to cut rates in Sierra Leone

Momoh Konte, the Chairman of the National Telecommunication Communications (NATCOM) of Sierra Leone, called on Interne...

TV Azteca Novela now in Africa

AMC Networks International picked up the classic telenovela I Forgot I Love You, for its Eva channel in Africa.The premiere of the 90×1-hour novella will air on the ch...

A+ Sport channel goes live in Africa

Canal+ launched a new sports channels in Africa, branded A+ Sport. The channel is said to show a variety of local and international sports. It will show coverage...

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Five large groups make up for two thirds of Latin American pay TV

According to Dataxis' latest quarterly research (Q1 2017), the top five groups of pay TV operators (America Movil, AT&T, Televis...

Illegal access to pay TV reached 11.8 million households in Latam in 2016

According to Dataxis’ research, pay TV piracy reached 7% of TV households in Latin America, with 11.8 million consumers. Tot...

SKY Brasil to bring DirecTV Now model in 2018

SKY Brasil's President, Luiz Eduardo Baptista, said in an interview with Folha de S.Paulo newspaper that AT&T's DirecTV Now service “will be coming ...

Claro Video adds HBO in Mexico

Mexican streaming service Claro Video announced that it has added HBO programming to its platform. Users can subscribe to HBO through Claro Video for MX$ 149 (USD 8.5)...

Fiber connection in Latin America reached 10% of broadband market in Q117

According to latest research conducted by Dataxis, fixed broadband connections for Latin America in the first quarter of 201...

Mexico’s Axtel launches streaming service

Mexican telecommunications company Axtel announced the launch of its OTT platform Axtel Play, which allows access to subscription services HBO GO, FOX Pre...

Quiptel joins LaserNet to enable OTT services in Africa

A new partnership was announced yesterday between Quiptel, global streaming technology leaders, and the LaserNet Group, experts in digital and...

BeIn Sports unblocked in the UAE

BeIn Sports, the Qatari Channel is back in Dubai. The channel has been blocked for more than a month in the country due to the on-going rift between Qatar and surrou...

SuperSport to broadcast “RAW” and “smackdown” following Multi-Year agreement with WWE

WWE and SuperSport announced a new multi-year agreement to broadcast WWE programmes live for the first t...

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Cartoon Network reaches 1 million subs on YouTube channels

Pay TV children's channel Cartoon Network announced that it has surpassed 1 million subscribers on YouTube, both on its channel for Latin A...

Disney invests in eSports

Disney announced a deal with ESL to launch two original eSports TV series on Disney XD new daily summer programming block dedicated to the world of gaming in the United Sta...

ESPN Brasil acquires rights to PGL Major Krakow 2017

ESPN Brasil announced that it has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the final stages of PGL Major Krakow 2017, one of the most important...

Discovery and Scripps reportedly in merger talks

Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive, parent company of Food Network, are in merger talks, people familiar with the matter told ...

Telefonica launches Movistar Play in Peru

Movistar Peru announced the launch of its streaming service Movistar Play, which includes live linear channels and a catalogue with movies, series and child...

Chile’s TVN to broadcast Liga MX matches

Chilean broadcaster TVN announced that it will air the 2017-2018 season of Mexico's soccer league, known as Liga MX, which begins on July 21 with the parti...

Netflix surpasses 100 million members

Netflix added 5.2 million members and surpassed the 100 million mark, according to the company's second-quarter results. Netflix went from having 99 million use...

FOX, Turner get ready for Argentine soccer broadcasting

In August will start the Superliga de Primera División (Super First Division League), which will mark the debut of FOX and Turner as the new o...

Two Caracol series added to Claro Video

Claro Video (América Móvil) has added to its catalogue two successful series produced by Caracol Televisión and distributed by Caracol Internacional.These are...

Cine.Ar Play aims to integrate its content into operators’ offerings

Argentina’s OTT platform Cine.Ar Play is planning to integrate its contents into the operators’ offerings. Currently, it is neg...

Sixteen companies are interested in DTT licenses in Mexico

Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) reported that there are sixteen companies interested in the public tender process for 14...

OnDirecTV adds two Spanish TV series

In July, DirecTV clients will be able to access two Spanish productions. OnDIRECTV premieres today the miniseries "Lo que escondían sus ojos". In addition, the c...

SKY Brasil to launch more than 100 channels this year

Brazilian DTH operator SKY (AT&T) has announced that it will expand its programming offering with the launch of more than 100 channels befor...

Twitter unveils sports strategy in Brazil

During an event in São Paulo, Twitter presented its sports strategy and reveled data confirming that sport is one of the main topics of conversation in the ...

History debuts first original production in Facebook Live

Pay TV channel History launches today its first original production in Facebook Live, called "Hoy en la Historia" (Today in History), which ...

FOX to expand OTT service reach

OTT platform FOX Premium App will begin to be marketed directly to the consumer starting in October, said to ttvnews site Federico Alamán González, SVP and General Ma...

HBO leads the Emmy nominations

HBO has received the most Emmy nominations with a total of 111, followed closely by streaming media giant Netflix with 91.This is HBO’s 17th consecutive year of earnin...

Claro Video to stop offering Chivas matches

Mexico's Club Deportivo Guadalajara - Chivas - announced in a statement posted on social media that the matches will no longer be available on Claro Video...

SKY Mexico to offer triple play

Mexican DTH operator SKY (Televisa) will start offering telephony and Internet services in September in Mexico City and Toluca, SKY’s General Manager, Alexandre Penna...

Televisa’s profit up, net sales down in Q2

Televisa announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2017 in which it reported net sales for MX$ 23.2 billion (USD 1,3 billion), 1.5% less ...

Mexico’s Multimedios selects AWS Elemental, Amazon Web Services

Mexican broadcast network Multimedios Televisión has selected video processing, distribution and storage solutions from AWS Elem...

Megacable and Televisa’s dispute over TV channels continues

Megacable’s General Manager, Enrique Yamuni, stated that the search carried out by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) - at the beginnin...

Cablevisión gives free access to HBO channels for the premiere of “Game of Thrones”

From Friday, July 14 and until Monday 17, the HBO Max package will be available free of charge to all Cable...

Caracol Internacional signs deal with Tubi TV

Caracol Internacional announced that it has signed an agreement with Tubi for the distribution of its content on TubiTV, the ad-supported streaming plat...

The Barman TV launched in Africa

West Africa’s burgeoning bartending trade is flourishing through a new and unique reality TV show, showcasing the region’s masters of cocktail making.  The Barman TV...

BISCON TV debuts on GOtv

BISCON TV, a lifestyle and entertainment television channel that showcases sports, business, politics, lifestyle, culture, arts and entertainment and celebrates the Nigerian...

DSTv Offers a treat to Golf Fans in Ghana

This month, DStv golf fans in Ghana are in for the opening of two SuperSport channels broadcasting the Open Championship, which starts at Royal Birkdale in ...

Football Fans having to look for alternatives following BeIn Sports block in the UAE

In the midst of the current diplomatic issues with Qatar, access to the beIN Sports TV has been obstructed by loc...

Telkom matches LTE post-paid and pre-paid prices

Telkom is matching the pre-paid and post-paid prices for its LTE Smart Broadband Wireless products, to add value for its prepaid subscribers. The LTE...

DSTV Ghana brings down the Zapper HD decoder price

Multichoice Ghana announced a reduction in prices for its Zapper HD decoder. Cecil Sunkwa Mills, the General Manager for MultiChoice Ghana said, “W...

Etisalat Nigeria soon to be known as 9 Mobile

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved Etisalat Nigeria’s name change to 9mobile. The new name was adopted after a management meeting...

John Perlman, veteran journalist, joins eNCA

Perlman will be hosting a new talk show, Under The Skin, which premieres on August 2nd at 9.30 pm on DSTV channel 403. The show will air every Wednesday ...

All3Media bags deals in Africa

The leading independent distributor All3Media International has closed a significant number of deals in Africa as two of its key formats, namely, Undercover Boss and T...

eNCA opts for LiveU newsgathering kit

eNCA, South Africa’s news organisation with over 16 million viewers, has chosen LiveU’s flagship LU600 solution to extend its breaking news coverage around the ...

Six operators fined in Tanzania for violating SIM registration rules

The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority fined 6 telecom operators for violating subscriber registration rules. The viola...

SABC calls for public participation for its editorial policies

The State broadcaster, SABC, is calling on the public to contribute towards reviewing of the six policies which were implemented in 200...