Pay TV operators face the OTT integration model and new ways of content consumption

During the last Nextv Series Colombia edition, the leading conference that took place last June 27th at the JW Marriott Hotel in Bogotá, Rodrigo Marquez Pulido, Product Leader at Claro Colombia, Ricardo Minari, VP Latam at SeaChange, Julio Cesar Gomez, General Manager at TeleVVD and Pedro Torres, Associate Direct...

YouTube Music adds new features in South Africa

YouTube Music, latest updates for its Music Premium and Premium services, include new features that allows users to switch easily between a song and its music video for an uninterrupted experience. New updates also include Smart Downloads and new playlists for South Africa.Smart Downloads automatically download and store your favourite songs offlin...

Dimayor sells Colombian football international TV rights

The Colombian Football Major Division (Dimayor) ran an agreement with the US investment fund Pruden Corporate Finance (PCF) for the Liga Agui...

VTR brings TVI / Filmocentro Group channels back in August

After a decision made by the Chilean Supreme Court of Justice, the pay TV operator VTR started to negotiate with TVI / Filmocentro Group an...

History to broadcast documentary about Brazil’s participation in Second World War

Aimed to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Brazilian Amy participation in World War II, the pay TV channel Histo...

CBS and Viacom set deadline for merger agreement in August

As reported by the financial media CNBC, Viacom and CBS would have set August 8th as the deadline to reach a merger agreement. That same da...

Sky Brazil tests to offer live pay TV through streaming

In an attempt to stop subscribers lost recorded in its customers base, pay TV operator Sky Brazil evaluates offering a new  live linear progra...

Fox Sports to broadcast local Atlas football matches in Mexico

Fox Sports Mexico announced it will broadcast Mexican football team Atlas matches, starting on the first Mexican League Apertura Tourna...

Naijatastic has launched a mobile app in Nigeria

Launched at the start of the year, Naijatastic allows users to stream audio and video all free of charge.“Naijatastic helps artists to promote their ...

Discovery and DStv brings HGTV channel to South Africa

Discovery, the global leader in real-life entertainment and DStv is bringing the internationally renowned HGTV to South African screens. Launch...

New Environmental series launched on National Geographic Kids in Abu Dhabi

Green Thumb, the new environmentally friendly series shot in the UAE which main focus is on sustainable farming is launched...

Telefonica Peru grows in pay TV and FTTH in Q2 2019

In its Q2 2019 quarterly results report, Telefonica Peru reported operating revenues valued at USD 609.9 million. The previous mentioned figure re...

Oi announces its relaunch with fiber optic

Brazilian telecommunications company Oi presented its strategic plan last Tuesday, which defines the company’s direction during the next three years. The o...

Costa Rica, almost ready to implement the analog blackout

Next August 14th, Costa Rica will implement the analog blackout, by which TV network will only be accessed through digital devices capable o...

Venezuela loses more than 70 thousand pay TV subscribers in Q4 2018

In its ‘Telecommunications Area Figures Report’ belonging to the fourth quarter 2018, Venezuelan National Telecommunications Commi...

Brazilian pay TV is said to be sentenced to death

Abraão Balbino e Silva, Competition Superintendent at the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), said  that pay TV in that country ‘...

YOFC continues its Latin American expansion

YOFC Yangtze Fiber Optic and Cable Company Ltd of China, considered the largest fiber optic and cable supplier worldwide, is aimed to expand itself from A...

Spotify launched Disney Music Hub in South Africa

Spotify users in United States, Canada, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand can now enjoy listening to the new Disn...

Real Talk with Eniivy available now on DStv

Eniola Omoniyi, who is commonly known as Eniivy has just rolled out a new Talk Show titled Real Talk with Eniivy in partnership with POP Central TV on lea...

StarTimes partners with MLW to air ‘Fusion’ in Africa

Major League Wrestling has recently announced it has entered into an agreement to broadcast its flagship weekly hour-long program MLW Fusion...

Telefonica Costa Rica and Tigo’s merger is in economic analysis phase

The authorization request for Telefonica Costa Rica and Millicom’s merger -which operates in Latin America under the ‘Tigo’ br...

Chilean Channel 13 launches OTT 13 Now on Samsung smart TVs

In partnership with Samsung, Chilean FTA TV Channel 13 launched the OTT ‘13 Now’. available on the company’s smart TVs (2016 models onward...

Amazon to launch its first Brazilian original production in 2020

Amazon Prime Video announced today that it will produce 'Tudo ou nada: Seleção Brasileira', the company's first original production f...

America Movil expects to offer pay TV in Mexico at the end of the year

America Movil expects the Mexican Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) to approve the request to offer pay TV in the coun...

Mirada adds Netflix to its iris multiscreen platform

Mirada, leading integrated software solutions provider for digital TV operators and broadcasters, announced the integration of Netflix in its Iri...

StarzPlay acquires upcoming Batman prequel series for Latin America

StarzPlay, the Starz streaming platform recently launched in Latin America, announced the tights acquisition o the Pennyworth dram...

Telcos need to face new technologies to attract more customers

During the last edition of the Nextv Series Colombia event, the leading conference that took place last June 27th at the JW Marriott Ho...

VTR improves its residential internet plans

Chilean telecommunications company VTR announced that, from next July 25th, it will increase the speeds of its residential internet plans, with its Mega 1...

Luis Miguel series to have a second season next year

After confirming that Mexican singer Luis Miguel's series will arrive at Mexico's FTA TV in August, Miguel Aleman Magnani, producer and sharehold...

Fixed connectivity is still strengthen in Latin American households

During the last edition of the Nextv Series Colombia event, the leading conference that took place last June 27th at the JW Marrio...

Cable & Wireless adds sports channel Rush to Flow TV

Cable & Wireless Communications, quadruple play operator in the Caribbean, added the sports channel Rush to its Flow TV service content o...

Luis Miguel’s series arrives at Mexican FTA TV through Las Estrellas Channel

Televisa announced that the Mexican singer Luis Miguel biographical series will be premiered on the country’s FTA TV th...

ETB aims to have one million homes with FTTH in Colombia

The Bogota’s Telecommunications Company  (ETB) intends to record one million homes connected with FTTH, that is, 200 thousand more than those...

ATIM to include Stingray music catalog in Mexico

The Mexican Independent Telecommunications Association (ATIM) will offer a content package from Stinggray, a music, technology and media company, whi...

Gigared Argentina launches quadruple play offer with Movistar

The MSO Gigared, which operates in the Argentine’s Northeast (Corrientes, Crespo, Parana, Posadas, Resistencia, Santa Fe City and Santo ...

Televisa to launch eSports channel BitMe next July 15th

Televisa presented yesterday in Mexico BitMe, its new pay TV channel focused on eSports, videogames, technology, anime and geek culture. The c...

FlixLatino expands its contents catalog and subscribers

FlixLatino, the Somos Next’s SVOD platform, announced today its rapid expansion across the US and enhancement of consumer marketing efforts v...

Tigo Sports takes the Qatar 2022 World Cup to Guatemala in HD

Tigo Sports reported that it will broadcast all Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup 64 matches in Full HD. The company informed that, unlike the 2...

Warner Media’s SVOD OTT to be called HBO Max and launched in 2020

Warner Media has officially announced that its SVOD OTT platform will be called HBO Max and will include an original productions c...

Ecompass acquires Ateme equipment to expand its uplink structure in Argentina

Ateme, an emerging leader in video distribution solutions for transmission, cable, DTH, IPTV and OTT, announced that En...

Claro Chile offers FTTH in Maipu and Puente Alto

As part of the beginning of its FTTH implementation in Chilean communes, Claro will include its offer for residents in Maipu and Puente Alto. The com...

Entel deploys Amino solution to power Bolivia’s first nationwide IPTV rollout

Entel, the national telecommunications operator in Bolivia, has begun a major deployment of AminoVU set-top boxes runn...

Globo is launching Globoplay in the US next year

From 2020, Brazilians living in the US will have the option of accessing the Globo Group's TV programming through Globoplay. The Group informed that,...

StarTV adds HBO Go to its content catalog in Mexico

The Mexican DTH StarTV announced the incorporation of HBO Go to its contents. The launch is StarTV's first effort to incorporate OTT content to it...

Syniverse and China Telecom Global partner to deliver connectivity to Middle East and Africa

Syniverse, the world’s most connected company, and China Telecom Global (CTG), a subsidiary of China Tele...

Du rolls out UAE’s first 5G-enabled WiFi router in Dubai

Du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has introduced UAE’s first 5G-ready WiFi router in Dubai.The advanced w...

DStv introduces Newzroom Afrika, a 24-hour news service on its platform

MultiChoice Africa has introduced a new 24-hour news service, Newzroom Afrika, on the DStv platform. It is accessible to custo...

Vodacom unveils IoT products in SA

Vodacom has introduced wide range of Internet of Things products that will enable customers to connect and monitor their compatible home and leisure IoT devices to...

Angola Cables rolls out its Cloud service platform to the African Market

Following the recent inauguration of their advanced Tier III AngoNAP data center facility in Fortaleza, Brazil, Angola Cables...

One Africa TV to air ‘Yellow Submarine’ in Namibia

Yellow Submarine’ will be broadcasted on One Africa TV. The show will offer compelling interviews with Namibia’s most leading entertainment per...

Sawa teams up with Huawei for MENA video service

The collaboration will allow Sawa to spread its TV channels portfolio and selection of encrypted channels to telcos across MENA.The video service wil...

Sipromad takes over pan-African channel Africanews

The pan-African channel Africanews, owned by Euronews NBC has been bought by Malagasy Group Sipromad for approximately 20 million US Dollars.Create...

Tbo Touch to roll out streaming services in SA

Tbo Touch will introduce later this month ‘THD24’ streaming services which he considers to be "the Netflix of South Africa".Touch said THD24 will go li...

Ali Mufuruki to acquire majority in Wananchi Cable Ltd

Tanzanian businessman Ali Mufuruki has increased his shares in Wananchi Cable Ltd, a company specializing in providing Internet access, voice a...

Celebrity Game Night announced on E! Africa

E! Africa on DStv Channel has announced its new late-night show, Celebrity Game Night which will be hosted by Anele Mdoda alongside Ayanda Thabethe and Ja...

Ethiopian Broadcasters Association migrate to SES satellites

SES has recently signed two agreements with Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters (AEB) and the Ethiopian Broadcasting Cooperation (EBC) ...