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 companies took place after sailing their sports networks in Mexico and Brazil, as ordered by the Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) and the Economic Defense Administrative Council (CADE).‘It i...

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.The NBA is collaborating with Google’s video-sharing unit to offer original content and bring NBA games live to African fans. The NBA Vice President and Managing Director for Africa, Amadou Gallo Fall...

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...

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...

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...

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...

La Tercera reports Fox Sports Chile possible sale

Chilean newspaper La Tercera reported that Fox Sports Chile could be put on sale because ‘the order to get rid of assets in Brazil was coordinated b...

Disney+ includes all Disney films

Disney+, OTT to be launched at the end of the year, will include all titles produced by Disney throughout its history in its catalog, as confirmed by Bob Iger, CEO ...

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...

Showmax to offer two-month free trial for DStv Compact subscribers

Showmax, a video-on-demand (VoD) service, declared recently that DStv Compact and Compact Plus will have a free two-month trial.The...

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 ...

Colombia delays analog blackout for 2021

Analog blackout had to take place in Colombia next December 31st But, according to the National Telecommunications Commission (CNTV) of that country, the dea...

Netflix plans series on ‘One hundred years of solitude’

‘One hundred years of solitude’, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez literary work, will be available on Netflix. The OTT acquired its...

Viacom develops 58 productions in Latin America

Darío Turovelzky, Global Content Director at  Viacom / Telefe, said that at present the company is working on 58 productions in pre and post productio...

IFT grants MVS a FTA channel in CDMX

Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) extended and modified pay TV spectrum concession of Comband SA de CV , MVS subsidiary, which will allow it to have its...

Netflix and Caracol TV to develop new series over the next three years

Colombian FTA channel Caracol TV and Netflix extended their exclusive licensing agreement to develop new productions together. ...

CDF to broadcast all South American Cup matches in HD

Chilean Football Channel (CDF) announced it will broadcast all 2019 South American Cup matches in HD, and not only those played by Chilean teams...

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...

Starz Play is leading the video on demand market in MENA

Starz Play is leading the way with one million subscribers, with a market share of 24 percent within the online video subscriptions and 31.5 ...

Safaricom seeks innovative public private partnerships for development

Safaricom, has called for local governments across the nation to increase development through public private partnerships (PPPs...