According to the information reported by the Brazilian website UOL, WarnerMedia (AT&T), owner of the TNT Sports channel, intends to negotiate for the Copa Libertadores TV rights in Latin America, for the 2023-2026 period. The news has not been confirmed by any company executive yet. Also, according to UOL, WanerMedia would start negotiations for the [...]
Ecuadorian FTA TV channel Ecuavisa reported that its ‘Si, se puede’ production, originally announced last year, became the first Ecuadorian series to arrive at Amazon Prime Video, where it has been available since March 6th through Amazon Prime Video Direct. The Ecuadorian production plot focuses on the first time that the Ecuadorian National Team managed [...]
Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, let this last Friday, April 9th, through Decree N° 10,669 (2021), to include the Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) in the so-called ‘Programa Nacional de Desestatização’ As officially reported, as a result of said inclusion, the company will face an evaluation process to define whether it will be privatized or if [...]
Colombian FTA TV channel Señal Colombia (RTVC) has announced that it has opened a new call through which it will be receiving, from April 5th to May 3rd, applications for audiovisual projects based on different genres, formats and items. The initiative takes place as part of its ‘Mercado de Coproduccion’, a space created for audiovisual [...]
After several rumors that took place during 2020, ViacomCBS has announced this last Monday, April 5th that ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) has agreed to acquire Chilean FTA TV channel Chilevisión from WarnerMedia (AT&T). As reported from ViacomCBS, Chilevisión will fall under the leadership of Juan ‘JC’ Acosta, President of ViacomCBS International Studios and Networks Americas. [...]
Viacom International Studios (ViacomCBS) announced that it will resume its fiction content production plans in Argentina, with ‘El primero de nosotros’, new VIS fiction series, whose premiere is scheduled for the first half of this year on the Argentine FTA channel Telefe. According to the information reported by VIS, ‘El primero de nosotros’ wil be [...]
Kids’ channel Spacetoon has inked a licensing deal with Pocket.watch, a digital media studio that specialises in extending kids and family YouTube stars and characters into global franchises, to be the master consumer product licensing agent in the MENA region for the brand Love, Diana. Besides becoming the CP licensing agent of Love, Diana in MENA, Spacetoon has also [...]
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and eMedia Investments, the company behind free-to-air satellite service Openview, have announced a new distribution deal that will boost both companies in the free-to-air category of television broadcasting. The collaboration between South Africa’s fastest-growing satellite network and SA’s most established broadcaster signals a seismic shift in the country’s broadcasting [...]
Family edutainment content creator, provider & streaming platform Spacetoon has introduced a new programming block targeting mothers and their preschool-aged kids on its free-to-air TV channel and Spacetoon Go online streaming service. Spacetoon will be the first Arab kids’ TV channel to launch such a co-watching block. Content will stream every day from 7 a.m. [...]
Multimedia Group has acquired free-to-air television and radio rights of UEFA Euro 2020, which will be aired in June and July this year. Abdulai Awudu, General Manager of Adom Brands at the Multimedia Group said, “This agreement is testament to The Multimedia Group’s unrivalled quest to always provide quality content in whatever genre to listeners [...]