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Disney plans to launch the OTT Hulu internationally

The north American company Disney announced that it will increase the contents inversion for the OTT Hulu, and it will also offer it internationally, because, at present, it is only available in the US and Japan. The news was spread by Bob Iger, ...
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Personal and Cablevisión customers can watch the Copa Libertadores final without using data

Clients of the mobile phone company Personal and pay TV operator Cablevisión in Argentina will be able to watch the games of the Copa Libertadores final on multiplatform service Flow, without consuming dat...
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StarTimes secures 3-year exclusive media rights for Coppa Italia & Supercoppa Italiana

Africa’s digital TV operator StarTimes and Lega Serie A reached a 3 years deal for the exclusive all media rights to Coppa Italia & Supercoppa Italiana in the region of Sub-Saharan Africa.According to th...

Netflx releases in Brazil an original cartoon series with Disney XD

The OTT platform Netflix is releasing in Brazil the cartoon ‘Cupcake & Dino: General Services”, an orginial North – American s...

Dubbing agency ‘The Kitchen’ sets in in Mexico

The international translation, dubbing and subtitling studio ‘The Kitchen’ announced the opening of a new office in Mexico, more precisely in the c...

Brazilian Rural Channel enters to VOD world through Net and Claro service ‘Now’

The brazilian signal about agricultural market ‘Rural Chanel’ started to offer it main contents in VOD, before the...

Atresmedia expands OTT platform

Atresmedia announced the global launch of its OTT platform, Atresplayer, with a subscription model (after a free-month trial) and without commercial breaks. In its in...

CommScope to acquire Arris

CommScope, a global provider of infrastructure solutions for communications networks, has agreed to acquire Arris International in an all-cash transaction for a total purc...

Fox Sports to offer complete coverage of Copa Libertadores final

Fox Sports will offer a complete coverage of the Copa Libertadores final between Boca and River. This is the first time that Argentin...

GRB Studios seals multiyear licensing and distribution deal with Africa’s Black TV

GRB Studios has inked a multiyear licensing and distribution deal with Black TV and will be collaborating with th...

Canal+ launches B2B distribution in Africa

The Canal+ Group announces the launch of Thema Distribution, a new business activity of Canal+ International, in charge of the distribution and sale of aud...

Netflix rolls out new Ultra package in South Africa

Netflix South Africa is providing users a new “Ultra” package. The packages were Basic, Standard, Premium, and Ultra. Previously, only the first t...

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Telefónica goes to Court over Cablevisión-Telecom merger

Telefónica Argentina appeared before the Civil and Commercial Justice to challenge the resolution that approved the merger between Cablevis...

Mexico’s Totalplay partners with Google for targeted advertising on pay TV

Mexican operator Totalplay (Grupo Salinas) has signed an agreement with Google to offer targeted advertising to its pay T...

Fox Sports launches SVOD app in Brazil

Fox Sports has launched in Brazil a new app including all the programming lineup of the group's sports channels. It is available for download in App Store and ...

Telecentro launches voice remote

Argentine triple play operator Telecentro has launched a voice remote that let users to access channels, applications and contents. It is available for customers wit...

“The economic and exchange crisis in Argentina is encouraging cord-cutting”

Hugo Cosentino, general manager of San Luis CTV, said that operators must reinvent themselves and invest more ...

Argentine soccer league launches eSports tournament

The Superliga Argentina de Fútbol (SAF) announced the launch of eSuperliga Red Bull, an official FIFA 19 competition, which will have representati...

MTN re-introduces Mobile Money in SA

MTN is re-launching Mobile Money in South Africa. Recently, group CEO and president Rob Shuter said the telco would bring the service back to SA in the first qua...

StarTimes to dub UEFA Europa League matches in Twi

StarTimes subscribers will be served with Twi commentary in the biggest matches of the UEFA Europa League. StarTimes becomes the first Pay-Tv servi...

Starz Play and Mobily sealed partnership deal

The Saudi Arabian telecommunications services company, Mobily and the video on-demand service Starz Play signed a new method-of-payment partnership that...

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“The market tends to concentrate, small operators must create alliances”

José Luis Jacquet Matillon, CEO of El Cuatro, a pay TV operator from Jujuy, in northern Argentina, participated i...

Netflix announces six new animated projects

Netflix unveiled a slate of animated event programming - both feature films and original series. The list includes six new titles, which will join the oth...

Minerva selects Verimatrix as Multi-DRM provider

Verimatrix announced that its MultiRights OTT solution has been deployed to secure the new Your TV Now service from Minerva Networks. This solution o...

Argentina suspends migration of pay UHF services

Argentina’s National Communications Agency (Enacom) suspended for two years the migration of pay UHF services operating at frequencies 512-698 MHz to...

Entel announces deal with Netflix in Peru

Peruvian operator Entel has announced that its clients will be able to pay for Netflix's subscription through their monthly mobile phone bills, local media ...

Movistar expands FTTH network in Colombia

Movistar Colombia announced the launch of FTTH services in Santa Marta, capital of the Magdalena Department, with investments of CO$ 5 billion (USD 1.6 mill...

VIVOplay launches VIVOpago

The team of the OTT service VIVOplay announced during its participation in NexTV CEO Latin America that it will start the sale of tokens to create a new platform, called V...

Movistar starts partnership with Netflix in Peru

Movistar announced that it has started its partnership with Netflix in Peru this November. The company’s mobile postpaid and fixed services customers...

Mega to become holding in 2019

Chilean broadcaster Mega, which belongs to the Bethia Group, will be reorganized into a holding company, called Mega Media, which will include its 5 radios, 8 websites...

IFT renews TV Azteca and Televisa concessions

Mexican telecom regulator IFT has renewed the concessions of TV Azteca and Televisa for another 20 years. Both stations reach 93.2% of Mexican household...

Netflix to release three movies in theaters before streaming

Netflix changed its strategy and decided to release three of its upcoming films in a limited number of theaters before the debut on the s...

Panama: retailers to stop selling analog TVs in 2019

Starting in April 2019, all TV sets sold in Panama will have to include a DVB-T tuner. The announcement was made by Roberto Meana Meléndez, Gener...

Telefonica expands FTTH and focuses on IPTV

In its third quarter report, Telefónica highlighted the growth of its FTTH network in markets such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, where the str...

Chile: Government approves TVN’s capitalization

The Budget Office approved a USD 22,3 million capitalization of state-owned broadcaster TVN. The figure is less than the USD 47 million that the Con...

Hulu Live TV launches Spanish-language package

Hulu announced the expansion of its programming options available to Hulu with Live TV subscribers. The company has launched two new network add-on tie...

Twitter announces new video content deals in Latin America

Twitter has announced new premium content deal in Latin America, including sports, news and entertainment from companies like Fox Sports, S...

Movistar reinforces its content strategy with simultaneous premiere in Latam and Spain

"Arde Madrid" will become the first Movistar+ original series to be premiered simultaneously in Spain and Latin...

Oi FTTH network reaches 25 cities in Brasil

Brazilian telecommunications company Oi announced the expansion of its FTTH network to four new cities. In this way, it is now available in a total of 25 ...

Mega to launch new TV channel

Chilean broadcaster Mega (Grupo Bethia) will launch in January 2019 the new pay TV channel Mega Plus, which will target an audience of men and women of 35-50 years old....

Nat Geo Kids premieres “Gallina Pintadita Mini”

Nat Geo Kids TV & APP announced the premiere of "Gallina Pintadita Mini", the successful Brazilian series. It will be available on Nov...

Brazilian pay TV market loses 25,000 subs in September

According to data from Brazilian regulator Anatel, the pay TV market had 17.79 million active contracts in September, which represented a fall ...

Amazon denies plans for ad-supported video service

During the third-quarter earnings call, Amazon executives said the company has no plans to launch an ad-supported video service for its Fire TV dev...

Televisa unveils new original series

Televisa held its 2019 Upfront in Mexico where it revealed its new programming lineup to clients, advertisers and agencies, among others. The event also had the ...

America TeVe launches digital platform

America TeVe announced the launch of its digital platform, producing content that can be seen directly in social media such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, an...

MTN Rwanda offers ‘MyMTN App’ to its subscribers

MTN Rwanda subscribers will now have access to different services on their smartphones through the telecom’s newly-launched mobile application ‘M...

OSN brings new seasons of House of Cards, The Last Kingdom, The Gifted across the MENA

OSN’s November line-up offers comprise of the most awaited shows of the season. From the highly anticipated new...

MultiChoice and SABC violate competition merger rules

The Competition Commission has ruled that the channel distribution agreement between Multichoice and SABC, signed in 2013, constitutes a notifia...

Vodafone Qatar and GBI sign new international data and internet connectivity agreement

Vodafone Qatar and Gulf Bridge International (GBI) announced the signing of a new long term agreement on top of...

South Africa review its DTT delivery model

The Department of Communications in South Africa is currently revising its digital migration delivery model. The new delivery model will see government ste...

Telkom concluded a deal with Netflix in SA

Netflix has officially signed its first partnership with a South African telecommunications company. South African telecommunications company, Telkom has o...

TBC to roll out new tourism channel ‘Tanzania Safari Channel’

Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC)'s will soon launch Tanzania Safari Channel in December.TBC will introduce the new tourism ch...

New talk show Madam Speaker to debut on eNCA

After a two-year absence, well-known broadcaster Iman Rappetti returns to eNCA with a brand-new talk show called Madam Speaker. Airing Thursday nights a...

South Africa’s Vodacom and Telkom conclude deal to share networks

Vodacom and Telkom have inked a long-term, multi-billion-rand agreement to allow Telkom to obtain roaming and facilities leasi...

Showmax rolls out free data deal with Vodacom

Showmax has introduced a new deal with Vodacom offering free access to the Showmax service and free Showmax data. Vodacom subscribers who add Showmax to...

Dynasties available soon on BBC iPlayer and BBC Earth

The BBC will show its latest natural history series, Dynasties, in Ultra HD and HDR on BBC iPlayer and BBC Earth.The series starts on Sunday 11 ...

TVC Communications launches new brand identity for TVC

Nigeria's leading independent TV, radio and on-line broadcasting company, TVC Communications today unveiled a new brand identity for its market...