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Comcast pulls offer for Fox assets

Comcast announced that it has abandoned its plans to acquire Twenty-First Century Fox’s entertainment assets to focus on its offer for Sky. Sources familiar with the company’s thinking told Reuters that Comcast dropped its bid for the Fox assets because it was ...
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Argentina’s Supercanal announces new owners

Supercanal, one of the main pay TV operators in Argentina, announced that it was acquired by CVI Austral LLP, a conglomerate controlled by an investment group with strong focus in "technology and telecommunications projects", headed by Carlos Joost New...
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SABC1 to launch new programming line-up and content

SABC1 is introducing a new programming line-up and content following the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with some new drama and reality shows, new seasons of local series, and some scheduling changes like a dedicated Sunday night local drama miniseries slo...

Netflix revamps its TV interface

Netflix announced that it has launched a new TV interface with the goal of providing a simpler and more intuitive experience, the company explained in a press releas...

PlayKids signs deal with Hasbro

PlayKids, the SVOD platform with educational content for families, announced that it has signed an agreement with Hasbro to add new shows to its offer. As part of the...

Colombia sets share price for Coltel

The Government of Colombia set the conditions for the sale of its 32.5% stake in Colombia Telecomunicaciones (Coltel), whose majority shareholder is Telefónica. ...

Mexico reaches 22.6 million pay TV accesses

The Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) presented the Q118 results of the telecommunications market. Pay TV recorded 22.6 million accesses,...

América Móvil remains interested in offering pay TV in Mexico

In a conference with analysts to discuss the Q218 results, Daniel Hajj, CEO of América Móvil, confirmed that the company remains inter...

Second Bolivian satellite to offer more capacity

Ivan Zambrana, director of the Bolivian Space Agency (ABE in Spanish) said that the new Bolivian satellite will have a capacity 10 times bigger than ...

TV2U video content delivery platform to expand on the African continent

Internet TV company TV2U International is to expand its African commercial ambitions by signing a licensing agreement with Afr...

Kwesé TV has new promotion for viewers

The news of subscribers paying for two months subscription are getting 60 more days of free connectivity has been warmly received by television customers. The...

Safaricom negotiates with local authorities to introduce M-Pesa into Ethiopia

Ethiopians may soon experience M-Pesa, the famous mobile payment service of Kenyan mobile phone operator Safaricom. Acco...

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Netflix adds fewer subscribers than expected in Q2

Netflix added 5.2 million new members in the second quarter, one million less than expected by the company. "We had a strong but not stellar Q2," t...

Latam Pay TV subscriptions fall for sixth consecutive quarter

According to Dataxis, as at Q1 2018 Pay TV in Latin America reached 71.4 million subscribers, which represents a drop of around 0.1% com...

U.S. Justice Department to appeal approval of AT&T-Time Warner merger

The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday last week that it will appeal the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval. Th...

Amazon Prime Video to invest more in Mexico

Amazon Prime Video wants to continue growing in Mexico, which is "an ideal market for streaming", said Marco Nobili, the platform’s director in the countr...

Televisa considering spinning off units

Televisa said that it was still considering whether to keep the company without changes or to spin off some divisions, particularly its Cable TV unit. The Mex...

Netflix tests new ‘Ultra’ plan in Mexico

Netflix is testing the new 'Ultra' plan in Mexico, which had been introduced in Europa a few days ago. It is an option that adds HDR content and allow us...

StarTimes gets hold of exclusive rights for ICC in Africa

Nigerians football fans will continue to enjoy another football entertainment as leading Digital TV Company, StarTimes Nigeria is set to bri...

Applus plans to launch 5G in Congo

Matt Stead, Business and Development Africa Manager of Applus, a company specializing in testing, inspection and certification was received in audience on 16 July ...

Tbo Touch to launch new VOD platform with local content in Africa

Entrepreneur Thabo Molefe also known as Tbo Touch will launch a video-on-demand streaming platform later this year called THD. The p...

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Verizon Digital Media Services helps distribute content for Grupo Clarín properties

Verizon Digital Media Services announced that its content delivery network is now utilized by the main digital me...

Telefónica Media Networks signs ad sales deal with Viacom in Peru

Telefónica Media Networks has signed an agreement with Viacom to become the exclusive advertising representative for the TV channel...

Televisa Deportes awarded with YouTube’s Gold Play Button

Televisa Deportes has been awarded with YouTube's Gold Play Button for quintupling its fan base by reaching more than 1 million subscriber...

Nine arrested for Pay TV piracy in Argentina

The police of the province of Buenos Aires, in Argentina, arrested nine people who were illegally distributing Pay TV, internet and telephony through set...

Netflix signs exclusive deal with Atresmedia

Netflix has signed a deal for the preferential acquisition of fiction content from Atresmedia. In this way, the deal gives the streaming giant right of f...

Aldea transmits live coverage of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in HD and 4K

Aldea, a provider of high quality video services and solutions for the television and media industries, announce that is has suc...

Pirate services stop offering content after police operation in Chile

After the raids carried out by Chile’s Investigative Police (PDI) that resulted in the detention of ten people, users reported o...

MVS will have a DTT channel in Mexico City

MVS Communications will enter the free-to-air market in Mexico City. In June, regulator IFT authorized the transmission of channel 52MX using the frequency...

Paraguay prepares to tax digital platforms

The State Undersecretariat of Taxation of Paraguay (SET in Spanish) is working on a regulation to begin charging tax on foreign digital platforms, includin...

Metrotel launches its new video matrix

Argentina’s telecommunications company Metrotel, which offers solutions to the corporate market, presented its new video matrix, a product that offers on deman...

Megacable to launch mobile telephony service

Megacable will start offering mobile telephony as a virtual operator by the end of 2018 or the beginning of next year. It will use the country's 'Red Com...

Movistar Series expands in Central America

The new channel Movistar Series is now available in Guatemala and Costa Rica with a lineup that includes original productions such as "La Peste", "La Zona"...

Zee Mundo launches OTT service

Zee Mundo, the HD movie channel that offers Bollywood cinema, dubbed in Spanish, announced the launch of the new ZEE Mundo Play service, which provides access to conte...

Netflix partners with Pol-ka to produce new original series in Argentina

Netflix announced “Puerta “7, its third Argentine original series, which will be produced by local powerhouse production comp...

Venevisión added to DirecTV Now lineup

Cisneros Media announced that its TV channel Venevisión is available on DirecTV Now in the United States. It is part of the new "Todo y Más" package, which in...

Univision exploring sale of Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion

Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) announced that it has initiated a formal process to explore the sale of the assets comprising the Gi...

Televisa sees growth in Q218 driven by FIFA World Cup

Televisa announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2018. The company's net sales during the period increased 16.2% to MX $ 26,70...

Bolivia prepares for analog switch-off

Wilmer Pantoja, in charge of Digital Television in the Vice Ministry of Telecommunications, said that Bolivia will be the second country in South America, afte...

Microsoft preparing Movies & TV app for iOS and Android: report

Microsoft is working to bring its Movies & TV app to iOS and Android devices, according to Windows Central, which cites source...

DirecTV Colombia to launch 4.5G service for residential clients

José Daniel Gómez, general manager of DirecTV in Colombia, announced that from the third quarter of the year the company will offer 4....

Netflix announces new anime series

Netflix will launch two new anime series in 2019 and will renew "Aggretsuko" for a second season. The official announcement was made by the streaming platform at A...

Brazil loses more than 52,000 pay TV subs in May

Brazil registered 17.85 million pay TV subscribers in May, which represented a drop of about 788,000 subscribers compared to the same month in 2017, ...

Colombia starts taxing digital platforms

From July 1, the Value Added Tax (19%) started to apply to foreign digital platforms that provide services in Colombia, including Netflix and Spotify. The me...

Multimedios to use multiprogramming in Mexico City

Multimedios group’s channel 6.1 of Mexico City (CDMX) is currently in the testing phase and is expected to launch soon. Meanwhile, the company chos...

AfricaOnline has launched its new wireless Internet network in Namibia

Internet provider AfricaOnline has started offering its high-speed Internet services via its new wireless network in Namibia. T...

Summer TV promo launched by Ooredoo

Ooredoo Qatar has announced a summer offer on its Ooredoo TV service, available until 16 September. New TV customers receive two months access to premium add-on p...

Minister summons DSO stakeholders to dig deeper into content analysis in Nigeria

The minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has tasked stakeholders in the Digital Switch Over (DSO...

Thai cave rescue special to air in SA on Discovery Channel

Discovery’s TV documentary about the rescue of the 12 Thailand boys and their 25-year old soccer coach that attracted audiences worldwide i...

Boomplay Music app reaches new milestone in Africa

African music app Boomplay Music registered 29 million users and 10 million installations via Google Play in 1 week.Speaking during a press con...

Moov to revolutionise the mobile sector in Togo

Moov telecoms operator is the latest in Togo to launch 4G services and aims to attract 200,000 users on its 4G network by the end of 2018. The operato...

Vila Kasi is not licensed to broadcast according to ICASA

The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) confirmed that the news channel Vila Kasi does not have the license to broadcast. The...

The first Sino-Arabic satellite channel to hit the UAE

A Dubai-based Chinese TV channel will bridge China and the UAE by dubbing all their programs in Arabic. China-Arab TV was founded in 2014 and h...

eNCA SA reveals refreshed look and anchor line up from Monday 16 July

From 6AM on Monday 16 July 2018, viewers get their very first look at the refreshed eNCA channel as well as the new anchor line ...

MultiChoice raises tariff On DStv services in Nigeria

As from August 1, millions of Nigerian subscribers to services of the Digital Satellite Television (DStv) operated by South Africa's MultiChoice...

Four South African comedians available on Netflix comedy special

Netflix is bringing together 47 comedians from 13 regions for a stand-up comedy event series that will premiere in 2019. Loyiso Gola,...

TNT will be available in Benin by the end of December 2018

A statement was made by Marcel Tchobo, technical adviser to the media Minister of the digital economy and communication stating that TNT wi...