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AT&T plans to acquire all of Otter Media: Report

AT&T plans to acquire all of Otter Media, the video streaming company it owns in partnership with The Chernin Group, sources told Recode. The agreement is expected to be closed this summer (in the Northern Hemisphere). Otter Media owns plat...
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Telefónica to accelerate FTTH deployment in Latin America

In a meeting with investors and analysts in London this week, Telefónica confirmed its intention to accelerate the deployment of FTTH in several Latin American markets. The company’s Global Network Manager Enrique Blanco said that Telefón...
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StarTimes endows in 12 channel IP streaming platform with PlayBox Neo

PlayBox Technology announced the completion of a new television playout system at the Beijing headquarters of StarTimes, one of China’s leading digital broadcast service providers. The system comprises 12 fully redundant AirBox ...

Argentina would allow telecom companies to provide DTH after 2020

The draft of the short law bill, which is currently in the Senate, establishes that the telecommunications companies will start offe...

Instagram launches long-form video app

Instagram has launched IGTV, a new app for watching long-form, vertical video. The new initiative was announced by Co-Founder & CEO Kevin Systrom, at an ev...

HBO announces first Colombian fiction TV series

HBO Latin America announced the production of its new fiction series, "Mil Colmillos", together with Rhayuela Films. It will be directed by Jaime Osor...

CBF signs content deal with Twitter

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has signed a deal with Twitter to produce, in its official account (@cbf_futebol) exclusive video contents of the natio...

Digital Cornucopia wants to expand into Latin America

The Spanish company Digital Cornucopia, which produced the channel All Flamenco, wants to start its international expansion via OTT, reported Ci...

Entel Chile selects Bango for Carrier Billing in Google Play

Entel, the largest mobile operator in Chile, has implemented Bango’s carrier billing solution for Google Play. Now, the company’s subscri...

Kwesé ready to change African narrative through revolutionary content

Kwesé, Pan-African broadcast network is initiating new ways of delivering broadcasting services in a process that will transfor...

Ooredoo launches new Business App in Oman

Ooredoo’s new Business App is proving a big hit, offering its Business-to-Business customers more control over their accounts through a wide array of servic...

Kwesé’ Iflix allies with 9Mobile to launch the premier digital entertainment platform in Nigeria

Kwesé iflix, the Joint Venture of Econet Media, Africa’s pan-regional media company and broadcast ...

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Disney raises bid for Fox assets to USD 71.3 billion

Walt Disney Co. raised its bid for Twenty-First Century Fox's assets to USD 71.3 billion, the companies announced in a press release today. This ...

AT&T to invest more in HBO’s original content

John Stankey, the new head of AT&T’s entertainment division, said that the company plans to boost HBO’s budget for original programming to kee...

AT&T completes acquisition of Time Warner

AT&T has completed its acquisition of Time Warner. The announcement was made just two days after a federal judge approved the USD 85.4 billion deal....

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 ca...

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 n...

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...

StarTimes bags new WTCR TV agreement for Sub-Saharan Africa

StarTimes is a digital TV operator in Africa which serves nearly 10 million subscribers bags WTCR OSCARO tournament.“We are very proud to ...

StarTimes joins Pay Tv market in Ethiopia

The Chinese multinational company, StarTimes, launched direct paid broadcast satellite service, making it the other player in the market besides DStv.Bridge...

Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation set to air security service channel

The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) says it will soon launch a security services channel as part of a cocktail of progra...

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Welo closes deal with DirecTV to offer videos with official World Cup content

Welo.tv platform launched a promotion that allows publishers in Latin America to make video clips -and embed them in the...

Colombia moves forward with DTT deployment

According to a report from the National Television Authority (ANTV), Colombia's DTT already reaches 86% of the country's population. The goal is for that n...

Web series “Limbo” to premiere on Playz

Limbo, the first Latin American web series co-produced with Spain, will premiere on June 25 on Playz, RTVE's free digital content platform, available thro...

Pay TV operators to retransmit the World Cup in Peru

Several independent pay TV companies in Peru were authorized to broadcast the games of the World Cup through the free-to-air channel Latina, afte...

Sky Brasil to respond on AT&T-Time Warner merger this month

Brazilian regulator Anatel gave 15 days to Sky Brasil (which belongs to AT&T) to comment on the effects in the country of the acqu...

Wapa channels return to DirecTV Puerto Rico

Hemisphere Media Group announced that Wapa Television and Wapa Deportes have been restored to DirecTV customers in Puerto Rico as of June 14, 2018, after ...

Intelsat and Globo demonstrate 8K video during the World Cup

The international satellite operator Intelsat has partnered with Brazilian broadcaster Globo to demonstrate live 8K video transmissions f...

Sky stops offering free-to-air channels to Sky Livre’s clients

Due to the analog switch-off process that is taking place in the country, clients of Sky Livre service, offered by Sky Brasil (AT&...

Twitter expands In-Stream video ads to more advertisers

Twitter announced that it has extended its In-Stream video ads to all advertisers in 12 markets, among them Brasil and Mexico. This product al...

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...

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...

iflix collaborates with Complex Networks to boost original content offering

iflix allied with youth culture media company Complex Networks, to produce localized versions of its video series such as ...

MTN to roll out new services in Namibia

South African mobile group MTN says that it is planning to introduce new services in Namibia this August.MTN Namibia executive Hester Marais said that the ope...

e.tv to premiere Greenleaf

For the first time on South African television screens across all broadcasters, e.tv will broadcast the highly-acclaimed Oprah Winfrey Network's Greenleaf. The show will p...

Nigerian Communications Commission likely to introduce regulatory framework for OTT

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the telecoms industry regulator, may set up a regulatory framework f...

Vodacom rolls out sports streaming ticket for DStv Now

Vodacom introduced a new data ticket that enables users with access to DStv Now, allowing them to control their data spend more effectively.Lik...

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 ...

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...