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Comcast offers USD 65 billion for Fox assets

Comcast announced an offer of USD 65 billion for the assets that Twenty-First Century Fox agreed to sell to Disney for USD 52.4 billion. Comcast’s bid came a day after a federal judge approved the merger of AT&T and Time Warner. In a letter deliver...
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Pay TV in Latam to reach 79.3 million subscribers in 2023

According to Dataxis, the pay TV market in Latin America will reach 79.3 million homes in 2023. Although Dataxis predicts that 8.5 million new pay TV subscribers will be added compared to 2017, it is a conservative evolution. As a result, T...
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Millimages to launch The Adventures of Nasredine in Mena

French production company Millimages will launch The Adventures of Nasredine, a new animated series for French television network Gulli. The series is expected to bow in September 2019—is the first presale for the Gulli Bil Arabi channel.Gul...

Oi launches 4K service in Brazil

The Brazilian telecommunications company Oi announced the launch of its 4K service. The operator is offering the World Cup matches through the SporTV channel. In thi...

Pay TV asks for regulatory changes to combat piracy in Chile

Content providers, pay TV operators and technology suppliers that are part of the Alianza contra la Piratería de Televisión Paga (Allianc...

Telemundo offers coverage of the World Cup in virtual reality

Telemundo Deportes announced that is offering a virtual reality experience, as well as other new digital initiatives to complement its c...

TyC Sports announces multiplatform coverage of the World Cup

TyC Sports will offer all the matches of the FIFA World Cup (32 of them live) on pay TV and its TV Everywhere platform. The channel will ...

AT&T Mexico launches app with World Cup games

Telecommunications company AT&T offers the FIFA World Cup App in Mexico, which includes 30 live games, as well as statistics, exclusive articles...

Atresmedia and Televisa team up to launch telenovelas SVOD service

Atresmedia has signed an agreement with Televisa to launch Novelas Nova, a new subscription VOD service within Atresplayer that wil...

Vision 4 channel to launch soon in Togo

The television channel Vision 4 will soon join the Togolese audiovisual landscape. The information was communicated on June 13, after a hearing granted by the...

Kwesé TV sealed deal with WorldRemit

WorldRemit, the digital money transfer service, has signed a deal with Pan-African broadcaster Kwesé TV to use the power of football to scale up its global oper...

Public broadcaster in Morocco bags the broadcasting rights for 22 international sports events

Morocco public broadcaster Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (SNRT) has obtained the ...

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Judge approves AT&T-Time Warner deal

A U.S. court ruled that AT&T can continue with its acquisition of Time Warner. District Judge Richard Leon announced its decision on Tuesday in the frame...

Telecentro launches 4K set-top box ahead of FIFA World Cup

Argentine pay TV operator Telecentro announced the launch of a new 4K set-top box (STB) to access the World Cup matches through DirecTV Spo...

Chile’s FNE extends investigation into Turner-CDF deal

The National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE in Spanish) has extended its investigation into the proposed purchase of Canal del Fútbol (CDF...

Turner launches TargetingNOW solution in Latin America

Turner Latin America announced the launch in the region of TargetingNOW, an advanced targeting solution for TV that offers a more effective rea...

Facebook partners with CNN, Fox News and Univision to launch original news shows

Facebook announced the launch of new original news shows, which will be part of a dedicated section within its Watch ...

The leading conference on the TV and OTT business comes to Colombia

The main executive of the TV and OTT markets will gather again in the sixth edition of NexTV Series Colombia, the conference organ...

Kwesé TV to beam Rugby Africa Gold Cup 2018

 Kwesé TV is set to broadcast the Rugby Africa Gold Cup 2018 live and exclusively on Kwesé Free Sports, Kwesé Sports 1 from June 16 to August 18. Kwesé T...

News24 doccies to be relayed on Showmax

Two documentaries recorded by the News24 video team is now available on Showmax. According to Jerusha Sukhdeo-Raath, head of video at 24.com, it’s incredibly ...

StarTimes rolls out video streaming service for 2018 World Cup in Ghana

StarTimes Ghana has officially launched its App video streaming service ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Africa’s leading dig...

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Brazil’s Net to broadcast the World Cup in 4K

Net (América Móvil), Brazil's largest pay TV operator, announced the commercial launch of the 4K service for the 2018 World Cup, which will be availab...

Colombia withdraws convergent regulator bill

The Colombian Congress withdrew the bill for the creation of a single convergent regulator, which had been presented by the ICT Ministry. The initiative ...

Entel Peru offers YouTube for prepaid customers without using data

Telecommunication company Entel Peru is offering its prepaid customers the possibility of watching videos on YouTube without consum...

Televisa adds Facebook to World Cup multiplatform coverage

Televisa Deportes announced that it will use Facebook to complement its World Cup coverage, which also includes pay TV, free-to-air TV, web...

Izzi launches exclusive sports channel

Mexican triple play operator Izzi (Televisa) announced the launch of the new sports channel Afizzionados, which will be available from the first week of July e...

PCTV signs deal with SES to expand presence in Latin America

PCTV (Productora y Comercializadora de Televisión) has signed a multi-year agreement with SES to distribute its TV channels to cable netw...

Record TV to launch streaming platform

Brazilian Grupo Record plans to launch a new streaming platform after the World Cup, called PlayPlus, which will include own and third-party content from compa...

Instagram reportedly preparing new long-form video feature

Instagram is reportedly preparing to launch a new feature that will allow users to post videos up to an hour in length, reported The Wall S...

Telemundo, Google team up for World Cup content

Telemundo announced a partnership with Google to offer World Cup content on Google and YouTube platforms for fans in the United States. Under the de...

Tigo Paraguay expands sports offering

Tigo (Millicom) announced the launch Tigo Sports+ in Paraguay, which joins the flagship channel (Tigo Sports) of the company. It will be part of all the operato...

Brazil approves proposal to tax VOD services

The Superior Council of Cinema (CSC in Portuguese) unanimously approved the proposal that provides a hybrid model for the collection of the Contribution ...

Latina to broadcast Peru’s qualifiers for 2022 Qatar World Cup

The Peruvian Soccer Federation (FPF in Spanish) announced the winners of the TV rights for the 2022 Qatar World Cup qualifiers. Latin...

Discovery adds Food Network to its Latam portfolio

Discovery Networks Latin America/US Hispanic (DLA/USH) announced that Food Network, as well as outstanding programming from the recently acquired S...

Comcast expands international channel offerings

The US's largest cable operator, Comcast, announced that it has expanded the number of international channels that are available to Xfinity TV custome...

Latin American networks select CenturyLink for live World Cup feeds

CenturyLink will transmit international distribution and unilateral feeds in support of this soccer championship to top Latam netw...

Acorn TV launches in Latin America

North America’s streaming service Acorn TV, which offers British and international content, is now available in twelve Latin American countries through Roku device...

Mediaset partners with MGE

Mediaset Distribution has signed a new partnership with with Esperanza Garay CEO of MGE (Mega Global Entertainment), an independent distributor of series, telenovelas, for...

Court suspends MLB broadcasts in the Dominican Republic

A court of first instance suspended, temporarily, the broadcasts of the major leagues in the Dominican Republic, available through Altice, unt...

Colombia debates bill to create convergent regulator

The Colombian Congress will debate this Tuesday the bill for the creation of a single convergent regulator, presented by the ICT Ministry last Oc...

Digital platforms to pay VAT in Colombia

Colombian Finance Minister Mauricio Cárdenas said that in June, digital platforms from abroad, among them Netflix, will have to pay VAT in the country. "Tod...

Movistar Play to live stream Peru’s qualifiers for the 2022 Qatar World Cup

Movistar announced that it will broadcast on pay TV and through its streaming platform Movistar Play, Peru's matches at ...

Chilevisión and TVN increase losses

According to data from the first quarter of 2018, Chilean free-to-air channels Chilevisión (Turner) and TVN increase their losses compared to a year ago, while M...

Grupo Multimedios to use Canal Once’s infrastructure for DTT

Mexico’s Grupo Multimedios, owner of the Milenio TV channel, will use the infrastructure of Canal Once, which belongs to the National P...

Turner leads Latam audience

Turner Latin America announced that its portfolio of brands ranked number 1 in audience among all pay TV groups in the region during the first four months of the year, ac...

Egyptian-Saudi TV channel, Pbs Sports launched in Egypt

Saudi Arabia, in partnership with Egypt, is set to launch, on June 21, 2017, the bouquet will be called Pbs Sports, a program devoted entirely...

StarTimes gives their support to Ghana Football Association

StarTimes Ghana Limited, broadcast right owner of the Zylofon Cash Ghana Premier League declared that they will still be committed to cove...

MultiChoice unveils a Major Pan-African Initiative for Film & Television Industry

MultiChoice Africa, the video entertainment services provider, recently announced a bold new Pan-African social ...

Intigral partners with ARRIS to introduce Jawwy TV Home Entertainment Service

Saudi Telecom multimedia subsidiary Intigral has partnered with ARRIS International to provide cutting-edge products and...

SABC rebrands SABC News TV programs

The South African Broadcasting Corporations (SABC) declared that SABC News is reimagining and rebranding its programming across its television, radio and online p...

Egypt TV to relay World Cup games including Pharaohs’ matches

Egypt's National Media Authority reported that they will beam 22 games of 2018 World Cup games including pharaohs matches to meet ...

DRC restored all TV frequencies in Congo

Started a few months ago, the process of restitution of TV and radio frequencies, plundered in Congo by neighboring DRC, is now complete. Lambert Mende Omala...

VIVA Bahrain rolls out 5G operations

VIVA Bahrain, a telecom services operator in the kingdom introduced the first live and public 5G network demonstration in the kingdom ahead of its deployment at ...

SPI/FilmBox extends its distribution in MENA region

SPI will broadcast its content to cable operations and DTH providers. From now on, SPI will deliver thematic 24/7 sports network FightBox HD; docu...

StarTimes to roll out digital TV project for 800 villages in Kenya

Kenya and China have partnered to launch a digital project that will see 800 villages across the East African nation get access to ...

Globecomm bags five-year contract to transmit Alhurra TV in MENA

Globecomm was awarded a five-year contract by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in support of the Middle East Broadcasting Ne...

twofour54 partnered with Arabsat to launch new set of satellite TV channels

The partnership between Arabsat and twofour54 will allow broadcasters to stream their shows to millions of Arabsat viewers...