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Digital pay TV in Latin America to reach 94% of total subs in 2022

According to Dataxis, digital pay TV reached 85% of total TV subscribers in 2016 and is expected to hit 94% by 2022, thus, making analog pay TV increasingly marginal.Growth is driven by the progression of DTH, a digital technology ...
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Bolívar TV expects to reach 45,000 paid users in four years

OTT service Bolivar TV, which was launched in May and offers the matches of the Bolivian soccer team, wants to reach 5,000 paid users this year, and expects to reach 45,000 in four years, Fernando Ibargüen, Bolívar’s General Manager, tol...
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Bouquet Restructuring brings growth to DSTV subscribers

Multichoice disclosed that is has grown the number of pay-television subscribers on its books in the past year although the pressure on prices in the weak economy coupled with low currencies strength in its key operating markets, has squeezed...

AMC Networks launches Machinima in Mexico

AMC Networks International Latin America officially announced the launch in Mexico of Machinima, the first SVOD channel in the country focused on eSports an...

Panama’s Cable Onda unveiled Cable Onda Go App

Panamanian operator Cable Onda unveiled during Tepal 2017, last week, the new mobile application Cable Onda Go, which allows its pay TV customers to ...

Consolidated Communicatons to launch Vemox

Independent media company Olympusat announced that U.S operator Consolidated Communications will roll out the Vemox platform to deliver its new Spanish-lan...

Ancine requests additional information on AT&T-Time Warner merger

Brazilian National Film Agency (Ancine) has requested programmers controlled by Time Warner additional information for the proce...

Red Intercable closes deal with Nextel to provide mobile services in Argentina

Red Intercable, an association that gathers Argentine small and medium size operators from 19 provinces, has signed an ...

Grey Juice Lab provides content for Telefónica’s T-VOD service in Peru

Grey Juice Lab has announced that it was selected by Telefónica to provide T-VOD content and services for its Movistar Play ...

Multichoice Kenya agreed on halting shows with gay themes

After much deliberation and lobbying, Multichoice has agreed to quit stop the broadcast of 6 TV programmes on DSTV and GOtv that were banned...

$2.1 Million funds for Nigerian Startup, Tizeti

Tizeti and its customer facing brand, Wifi.com.ng which offers unlimited, uncapped internet services in Lagos, Nigeria, announced that it has closed o...

Digital Service Provider, Tigo Ghana, to launch SuperSMS network with UK partner

The Millicom subsidiary Tigo Ghana, with ONEm communications, a London-Based telco, will be the next mobile operator ...

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The future of 4K, discussed at NexTV Series South America

During the recent edition of NexTV Series South America, the conference organized by Dataxis, the CTOs of leading companies discussed the fu...

Telefónica’s On Video reaches 150,000 customers in Argentina

During the conference NexTV Series South America 2017, Gustavo Castro, Marketing and Content of Telefónica’s streaming service On Vide...

Time Warner to develop original content for Snapchat

Time Warner and Snap have announced a global partnership to develop original shows for the messaging app over the next two years.In addition to p...

Qubit TV expands its service in Latin America

OTT service Qubit TV plans to launch its platform in Peru at the end of the month, said during NexTV Series South America the CEO of the company, Facund...

Pay TV subscribers in Latin America to reach 88.7 million in 2022

According to Dataxis, pay TV subscriber base in Latin America will reach 73.7 million at the end of 2017, which represents a rise of...

Megacable launches multi-platform service with linear TV, VOD

Mexican pay TV operator Megacable has launched Xview, a video platform that combines on-demand content with linear TV, available through...

Brazil supports Botswana in digital TV implementation

Brazil is providing technical support to Botswana as the only country in Africa to use the Japanese-Brazilian digital TV standard, the ISDB-T. I...

Kwesé to broadcast UEFA and FIFA leagues

Kwesé Sports, the Pan-African sports TV company owned by Strive Masiyiwa signed broadcast rights for live and delayed matches, programme highlights, on-dema...

SuperSport secured FIFA and UEFA football rights in Sub Saharan Africa

SuperSports secured broadcasting rights to air upcoming soccer tournaments namely the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship as well as th...

Previous news

Vice Media signs deal with Globosat

Vice Media has signed a deal with Globosat to expand the youth brand’s local presence across online, mobile and linear in Brazil. The deal gives Globosat a signif...

SKY Brasil introduces new prepaid options

SKY Brazil (AT&T) has launched new recharge options for its prepaid customers. The new offer includes recharges ranging from 3 to 30 days, with TV chann...

MTV launches series on social media

MTV International announced the premiere of "Single AF" (Single, available, famous), a new series that will debut on June 26 on MTV social networks (Facebook, Ins...

Crackle launches in Panama with Cable Onda

Sony Pictures Television Networks announced that its streaming service Crackle will be available to Cable Onda subscribers starting on July 15. Crackle wil...

Brazil completes analog TV switch-off in Goiânia

Gired, the group in charge of implementing digital TV in Brazil, approved the analog switch-off (ASO) in Goiânia and other 28 municipalities, which ...

Netflix launches interactive shows

Netflix announced the launch of “Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale”, the first interactive show of the streaming service where members are in control of how th...

Roku device sales blocked in Mexico

A Mexican court has order to stop selling Roku devices following a complaint from Cablevision (Televisa), according to a Milenio report.The Superior Court of Just...

SES transfers capacity from AMC-9 satellite following anomaly

SES announced that, following a significant anomaly, the company is in the process of transferring capacity from its AMC-9 satellite.“SE...

Netflix announces premiere date of “Star Trek: Discovery”

 Netflix announced that the first two episodes of "Star Trek: Discovery" will be released globally on the platform - except in the Unite...

Megacable sues Chivas TV

The Mexican operator Megacable sued the streaming service Chivas TV for the cancellation of 50,000 codes it had bought for its subscribers so that they could watch the final...

Regional TV channels sign deal with TVN to broadcast the FIFA Confederations Cup on DTT

Regional TV channels have signed an agreement with Chilean public broadcaster TVN to offer through DTT the 201...

Discovery, Cirque du Soleil Images team up for new original series

Discovery Kids announced a strategic partnership with Cirque du Soleil Images, the multimedia production division of Cirque du Sole...

Brazil’s pay TV lost over 171,000 subscribers in April

Brazilian regulator Anatel reported that in April, the pay TV market lost 171,233 subscribers (-0.90%) compared to previous month. In the las...

Globosat Play reached 2.6 million registered users

Brazilian TV Everywhere platform Globosat Play is celebrating three years old in June with numbers that, according to the company, "confirm the suc...

Claro Video now available on Hisense smart TVs

Chinese electronics manufacturer Hisense announced the launch of Claro Video on its Smart TVs, through a pre-installed application offering series and ...

HBO expands its OTT service to 17 countries, arrives on Apple TV

A few days after its launch in the Caribbean, HBO Latin America announced that its HBO GO standalone service through digital stores (...

Net promotes multiscreen strategy with bundled offer for broadband subscribers

Brazil's main MSO, Net, announced new pay TV and broadband offerings, along with a new advertising campaign focused on ...

Ecuador postpones analog switch-off until 2018

Ecuador's Telecommunications Minister Guillermo León announced that the DTT transition process, scheduled for June 30, 2017, will be postponed for at l...

NexTV Series South America discussed about the changes in TV consumption

During the first day of NexTV Series South America, executives from Turner, Leader Entertainment, Movile and GoMusic discusse...

Turner developing gaming platform

Turner is developing a platform based on cloud gaming, which will have a subscription model. The new project  was announced during NexTV Series South America, the l...

Crackle launches in Uruguay with TCC

Crackle, the authenticated SVOD service from Sony Pictures Television Networks is now available in Uruguay for TCC subscribers.The oerator’s clients will be able...

Facebook orders its first original series

Facebook has closed a deal for reality competition series “Last State Standing” from American “Ninja Warrior” producers A. Smith & Co, according to The ...

CNN Launches CNN Travel

CNN has launched CNN Travel, a multimedia digital destination with a new design as a globally-minded, mobile-first, social product with an emphasis on visual storytelling.Thi...

Kaltura and Akamai strengthen partnership

Video technology provider Kaltura and cloud delivery platform Akamai announced that the companies have entered into an agreement to extend their Net Allianc...

Kwesé partners with NTA to bring FIFA to Nigerians

The pan-African broadcast network, Kwesé TV partnered with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) to deliver the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 to N...

Eutelsat’s Konnect Africa launches broadband service

The Konnect Africa broadband venture set up by Eutelsat Communications has this month, officially launched new-generation services, startin...

StarTimes expands signal to rural Kenya

Chinese digital television service provider, StarTimes Media, announced major for its digital terrestrial services in Kenya. Signal coverage are now available...

M-Net to air Game of Thrones Season 6

The TV network DsTV announced that viewers would be able to binge the entire season 6 of Game of Thrones this weekend on M-net. With the much anticipated 7th se...

Etisalat’s license in Nigeria not transferable without approval

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, stepped into the crisis that has wrapped the country’s fourth largest network operator,...

Ooredoo upgrades networks with 4.5G

Ooredoo just achieved another milestone by being the first to deploy an upgrade for its 4.5G mobile network sites, in the region, to support the data speed of up ...

PBS Sports launched to compete with BEIN Sports

Saudi-Arabia, in partnership with Egypt is launching its own TV network, PBS Sports, to bring down the Qatari monopoly of the entertainment television...

Deutsche Welle teams up with GHF to launch African series

Deutsche Welle, the German International broadcasting in collaboration with scientific promoting organization: Gerda Henkel Foundation (GHF)...

Telkom Kenya to expand 4G network to 28 towns

Telkom Kenya, announced the expansion for its 4G network from nine towns to 28. Over the last year since the investment of Helios Investment Partner on ...

Nigeria missed June 2017 deadline for DSO

Mallam Is’haq Modibbo Kawu, Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) announced that the switch off of analogue signal will be done whe...

Bharti Airtel in negotiation with Tigo for a new merge in Ghana

Bharti Airtel and rival Millicom International Cellular are in talk about the possibility of a fusion between the two entities in Ghan...

SuperSport gets its own gaming channel

SuperSport recently teamed-up with British gaming channel Ginx TV, which will be offering a 24 hours service to DStv Now as well as DStv DTH subscribers. Some ...