CRC detects minimum cord cutting impact in Colombia

The report ‘OTT services role in Colombian telecommunications area’, developed by that country’s Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC), determined that, in the last 12 months, only 2% of pay TV subscribers canceled the service and decided to migrate to OTT.The information presented establishes that 72% of Colombians who own TVs in their ho...

StarTimes to air Plus TV in Africa

Plus TV Africa, a 24-Hour news channel, will now broadcast across all of Africa via StarTimes platform. According to StarTimes, the performance of the channel is superior since its launch and upgrade where it is expected to reach over 30 African countries. StarTimes Nigeria – CEO, David Zhang, “Plus TV Africa has done well during the pilot phase of the broadcas...

Xiaomi launches STB for streaming in Brazil

Cell phones global leader Xiaomi, fourth in smartphones importance, will launch in Brazil its STB for streaming Mi Box S. The device, compatible with Chro...

Telcos continue to expand FTTH networks to move towards OTT in the future

During the first day of the Nextv Series Argentina event, the leading conference organized by Dataxis that took place on May...

AUF TV to broadcast the National Football Clubs Cup in Uruguay

AUF TV, the new Uruguayan Football Association’s channel (AUF), will broadcast matches from the 16th edition of the National Clubs Cup...

New opportunities and adding subscribers, main challenges of live streaming

During the first day of the Nextv Series Argentina event, the leading conference organized by Dataxis that took place on M...

Rede Bandeirantes takes the NBA finals to Brazilian FTA

Brazilian Bandeirantes Communication Group (Band) announced last Monday that it came to terms  with the NBA (National Basketball Association),...

OTTs aim to increase subscribers and make access to their contents easier

On the first day of the Nextv Series Argentina 2019 event, the leading conference organized by Dataxis  that took place on M...

Azam media acquired licenses to air local TV channels

Azam media has received operator license to broadcast local channels. According to Azam Media CEO, Mr Tido Mhando, “Very soon, the FTA’s will be...

7info news to launch on DTT in Ivory Coast

Optimum Media group will launch the 7info news channel on the national digital television platform, in Ivory Coast, by the end of 2019. The partnership is ...

Maliyo Games inked distribution deal with Telecoming for the African market

Maliyo Games, have recently signed a gaming distribution deal with Telecoming, the European technology company specialized...

FTA TV, between the linear and on demand model

During the first day of the Nextv Series Argentina event, the leading conference that took place on May 14th and 15th at the Intercontinental Hotel in ...

OTTs offer a new alternative model to pay TV

During the first Nextv Series Argentina’s day, the conference that took place on May 14th and 15th at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buenos Aires, the ‘OT...

Pay TV operators must adapt themselves to the OTT model to stay in business

During the first  day of Nextv Series Argentina 2019, the conference developed last May 14th and 15th at the Intercontinen...

Millicom finishes its Telefonica’s acquisition in Nicaragua

Millicom announced that it has completed the acquisition of Telefónica Nicaragua mobile operations, the first of the three subsidiaries ...

Law makes Brazilian pay TV operators to cancel subscriptions online

Brazilian’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, made Law N° 13,828 official, modifying Conditional Access Law (Seac)’s article 33. The new ...

New Apple TV app is now available in more than 100 countries

After announcing the launch of its OTT, Apple stated that the new Apple TV app is now available, and brings together all the ways of watc...

Zimbabwe to launch 24 new TV channels

The Zimbabwean government is about to launch 24 television channels where viewers will be beneficial to all viewers. According to Mr Nick Mangwana, the Secretar...

AfricaXP launched new bouquet PREMIUM.FREE channels in Nigeria

PREMIUM.FREE launched a new bouquet of 13 channels supplied by AfricaXP and delivered using SES satellites at 28.2 degrees East. Africa...

Canal Algerie is now on Arabsat-5C

 The Algerian French speaking public television channel, Canal Algérie, which is owned bu EPTV (Algerian Public Television) owns A3 (available on BADR-6), Terrestr...

Globo and Warner Bros renew agreement to show films on Brazilian FTA TV

Globo and Warner Bros ran a multi-year renewal agreement, which will allow the Brazilian TV channel to broadcast the company's...

Samsung Mexico offers YouTube Premium for free on Galaxy S10 and Galaxy A models

Samsung and YouTube announced an agreement in which customers using Galaxy S10 and Galaxy A models in Mexico will hav...

DirecTV to take FIFA U-20 World Cup from Poland to Latin America

FIFA U-20 World Cup is scheduled to begin this Thursday, May 23rd, and will be based on Poland this year. The football competition wi...

EchoStar sells satellite division to Dish

EchoStar announced an agreement with Dish Network Corporation to sell its Satellite Services Business to the company and its subsidiaries. The transaction w...

DAZN starts to broadcast Brazilian teams matches in South American Cup only for subscribers

A few days after announcing the launch of its platform in Brazil, DAZN determined that it will broadcast B...

Globo and Sony Pictures to produce series in English to the international market

Globo and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) announced a joint development and production agreement for two dramatic seri...

Website Pelispedia is closed in Uruguay for illegal series and movies streaming

Uruguayan Justice requested to close the Pelispedia website, which had an ilegal series and films catalog without its ...

Amazon Prime Video’s catalog joins Tigo in Costa Rica

The company Millicom -branded as ‘Tigo’ in Latin America-, announced that it will include Amazon Prime Video’s series, films and documentaries...

Roku announces new TV models and expands its catalog in Mexico

Roku announced the launching of its new Roku TV models in Mexico and increase its entertainment content catalog. Some of the most impor...

Chilean University and Colo Colo arrive at Argentina and Brazil

Chilean Football Channel (CDF) will broadcast for the first time the football match between teams Chilean University and Colo Colo -co...

PGA Championship to be watched in Latin America and the Caribbean through ESPN

As part of an agreement between the PGA of America and ESPN, the PGA Championship -  considered one of the four most im...

Globo takes Palmeiras Brazil’s Cup matches to PPV

Through an official statement, the Brazilian FTA channel Globo confirmed that the Round of 16 matches of the Brazil’s Cup will only be availab...

Allied eSports to produce first Latin American event on TV Azteca

Allied eSports announced the launch of Nation vs. Nation, as part of a strategic and exclusive agreement ran this year with TV Aztec...

Tondero to produce international content with Peruvian America TV

Peruvian film producer Tondero ran an agreement with the same country’s America TV channel, to offer production services to the inte...

FlixLatino is added to Sling TV’s catalog

FlixLatino, the Somos Next’s SVOD OTT, is already available on Sling TV, a platform that combines linear channels and on-demand content, offered in Puerto...

Gonzalo Hita: ‘Flow is becoming an entertainment platform’

Gonzalo Hita, Telecom’s COO, took part in the Nextv Series Argentina event, leading TV and OTT conference developed by Dataxis, and exp...

Comcast gives Disney full Hulu’s control

The Walt Disney Company announced yesterday an agreement with Comcast to get full control of the Hulu streaming platform. At present, Disney owns a 67% of ...

Mexican filmmakers request digital platforms to pay taxes in the country

Filmmakers from Mexico asked the country’s  Deputies Chamber’s Culture and Cinematography Commission that digital platforms s...

Claro Sports is launched in Mexico through Totalplay

Totalplay and Claro Sports announced that the Latin American sports content channel is already available in Totalplay's Basic and Extended Basic ...

Altice Dominicana and Claro ask Indotel to investigate illegal streaming companies

The companies Altice Dominicana and Claro sent a statement to the Telecommunications Dominican Institute Board of D...

Sabbatical Entertainment starts its operations in Brazil

Sabbatical Entertainment, a company that creates, produces and distributes audiovisual content, announced it has started operating in Brazil ...

IPTV Vader to cancel its operations

IPTV Vader, which offered live access to more than a thousand TV channels for USD 15 per month, announced the cessation of its operations through an email sent fr...

Globo broadcasts the Women’s Football World Cup on FTA for the first time

The Brazilian TV channel Globo is announcing throughout its programming that it will broadcast the Women’s Football World ...

Cadena H expands itself in Mexico and joins Izzi

The pay TV channel Cadena H has joined Mexican Izzi’s programming and expands its reach in that country. It will also make changes in its programming...

OSN to air ICC Cricket World Cup in MENA

ICC World Cup will be available via two additional channels OSN Cric Xtra 1 and OSN Cric Xtra 2. These are also available for subscribers of the all-inclusiv...

Chacha TV, first local streaming platform in Algeria

The group Sense & Med & com has just launched Chacha TV (Chacha means screen in Arabic) in Algeria. Chacha TV is the first streaming and ...

Hotsports Media Group wins unencrypted broadcast rights for African Cup of Nations in Nigeria

Hotsports Media Group, in partnership with Nigerian Television Authority will market the African Cup of ...

Ooredoo offers free Yupp TV subscription to Hala customers

Ooredoo announced a new promotion by providing Hala customers with one month’s free subscription to Yupp Tv, which is an app-based content ...

Telkom to connect fibre to Soweto

Telkom has just provided high-speed fibre Internet connection to Orlando West High School in Soweto.“The internet will be an enabler for us as learners from the tow...

Low cost internet Poa launched in Kenya

Low-cost internet provider Poa! Internet announces the completion of its wireless internet network in Nairobi and Kiambu counties in Kenya. Over 3,000 Wifi ho...

Tiwa Savage signed with Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group has signed an exclusive agreement with Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage, one of Africa’s biggest stars. The artist is known ...

VIVA rolls out home Internet offer with postpaid plans in Kuwait

VIVA, Kuwait's telecom operator will provide Internet services Qualitynet an amazing offer on home Internet service for the first tim...

Zambia officials in discussion with Huawei over 5G network

According to the Zambian Minister of Communication and Transport, Dr Brian Mushimba, Chinese telecommunication firm Huawei has agreed to de...

Insight TV available on My-HD platform in MENA

Insight TV has rolled out its HD channel in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on My-HD, the DTH HD Pay-TV platform in the region.The agreement wa...

Yalla Yalla to offer Arabic film and TV content in MENA

Yalla Yalla is a brand-new Dubai-based film and television company from a joint venture between Dubai-based distributor and producer, Front Ro...

OSN to offer 40-plus hours of Gusto’s original content in the MENA region

OSN, an entertainment network in the MENA region, has bagged more than 40 hours of Gusto Worldwide Media’s original food p...