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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. Total illegal access to pay TV could be positioned as the third largest player on the market, behind Am...
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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 to Brazil next year”.This way, the OTT pay TV platform -currently available in the United States- se...
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StarTimes acquires exclusive media rights to broadcast FIBA’s 2017-2021 competition

Africa’s leading digital TV operator has acquired exclusive media rights in Sub-Saharan Africa for FIBA’s national team competitions for the 2017-2021 period. It also includes the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 w...

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...

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 ...

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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...

DirecTV prepares for 2018 World Cup

Guillermo Barreto, AVP Sports Content, DirecTV Latin America, spoke to NexTV News Latam about the live coverage that DirecTV Sports will offer of all 64 matches o...

Chivas relaunches its OTT service in partnership with NBC Sports

Club Deportivo Guadalajara announced the relaunch of its OTT service Chivas TV. For this new stage, the Mexican team has signed a dea...

“Integrating multiple OTTs in a single interface means simplifying the user experience”

In an interview during the conference NexTV Series South America, Gonzalo Hita, COO of Cablevisión, Argent...

SEACOM extends fibre network reach in South Africa

SEACOM is bringing high-speed fibre internet access to businesses and homes in Johannesburg, starting in Alberton, with a rollout of 8km of fibre. ...

Ziptv partners with MTN in Ghana

New Ghanaian premium IPTV provider, Ziptv, has partnered with MTN Ghana to improve the consumption of content in the country. Ziptv’s premium channels and On Demand ...

Berbere TV added to Arabsat channel bouquet

The north African Commercial broadcaster Berbere Television has been added to Arabsat BADR-5 satellite. The Maghreb bouquet will broadcast Berbere TV, Ber...

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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...

Crackle launches on Tigo in Guatemala and Costa Rica

Sony Pictures Television Networks Latin America announced the expansion of the authenticated SVOD service Crackle into Guatemala and Costa Rica, ...

Gama TV and TC agree to pay debt to Ecuadorian Soccer Federation

Free-to-air channels TC Televisión and Gama TV have agreed to pay the debts related to their TV rights for national soccer tournament...

Starz adds Spanish-language programming

The Starz app, which has more than 1 million subscribers, has increase its content offering by more than 125% to 5,500 titles over the past 14 months. Much of...

Cine.Ar Play launches app for iOS

Argentina's free access OTT platform Cine.Ar Play announced the launch of its new mobile application for iOS devices.The service has already launched its Android ap...

Puebla denies acquisition by TV Azteca

Mexican soccer team Puebla denied media reports that it was acquired by TV Azteca. In a statement, Puebla said that TV Azteca did not buy the team but agreed t...

Mega selects Aldea for delivery of 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup

Aldea Solutions announced that it successfully transmitted the live feeds of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia to free-to-air...

DirecTV launches Prepaid HD service in Perú

DirecTV Peru has officially launched at a national level its Prepaid HD Kit, which includes a package with 140 channels (including video, audio and radio...

SKY Brasil launches Fox Premium channels

FOX Networks Group Brazil (FNG) announced that its FOX Premium App & TV platform is now available to subscribers of SKY Brasil (AT&T), the largest DT...

Vivo expands FTTH network in Sao Paulo

Brazilian telecommunications company Vivo (Telefónica) announced that it has invested R$ 11 million (USD 3.3 million) to launch its FTTH service in Lençóis Pau...

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...

e.tv grabs Days of Our Lives from the SABC

The hugely popular American day time soap Days of Our Lives will air on e.tv as from Monday 4 September at 17:30. The highly applauded tv soap which was no...

Lorna Vision slaps SABC with a Lawsuit

TV licence fee collection company Lorna Vision is taking legal action against the SABC for refusing to pay it millions for its collection work. Lorna Vision vo...

Sudatel Telecom Group Joins GSMA’s Humanitarian Connectivity Charter

The telecommunication group has announced that it joined 112 mobile operators across 77 countries which are committed to the GS...

GOtv to contribute to Nigeria’s Digital Migration

John Ugbe, Managing Director at MultiChoice Nigeria, gave a testimony during the Pay TV subscribers award ceremony. He said the company is excited...

African drama ‘MTV Shuga’ to get Egyptian version

“MTV Shuga,” the youth culture network’s drama about love, heartache and broken dreams that has won an audience across sub-Saharan Africa, will ...

Falcon Media to expand in the Middle East

Falcon Media House Ltd announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Media Nucleus Ltd to provide OTT services to millions of users. Broadcast ...

MultiChoice Ghana wins EPL piracy lawsuit

The Kumasi High Court has given its verdict in favour of MultiChoice Ghana in the case levelled against Champion Broadcasting Limited in 2016. DStv and agen...

Qatar TV introduces new programmes package

Qatar TV launched its new TV programmes package on 12th July as part of Qatar Media Cooperation scope of keenness on innovation and diversity. The package ...