Category Archives: Interview LATAM

Wom plans to launch Wom TV throughout Chile before the end of the year and will feature Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max as add-on offers

Rodrigo Baudrand, Home Services Manager at Wom, was interviewed by Nextv News Latin America and gave details on Wom TVs soft launch of, the company’s new TV offering, already available in the Chilean Metropolitan Region, and with plans to expand it to the rest of the country before the end of the year. In addition, [...]

Julio Sonino, CEO at Tuvvo: ‘The US Hispanic audience and Latin America are the most interesting targets for the platform’

Interviewed by Nextv News Latin America, Julio Sonino, CEO at Tuvvo, gave details about the platform’s projects for the future, as well as plans to strengthen its content catalog, which include adding 50 Latin American linear channels. The platform is now available on a global scale for the entire Spanish-speaking market, although the executive emphasized [...]

Isabel Rafferty, CEO at Canela Media: ‘After launching Canela.TV in the US, Puerto Rico and Mexico, we will go forward to the rest of Latin America’

Isabel Rafferty, CEO & Founder at Canela Media, was interviewed by Nextv News Latin America and gave details about what will be the launch of Canela.TV, the companys AVOD OTT, in the region, after its launch in Mexico, the US and Puerto Rico. In addition, the executive reported that the company plans to launch another [...]

Univision: ‘We are helding conversations to add Vix and PrendeTV into pay TV operators STBs in the US and Latin America’

Rafael Urbina, General Manager & EVP AVOD, Streaming at Univision Communications Inc. was interviewed by Nextv News Latin America regarding the company’s aims for this year and the impact of the pandemic on the industry. In addition, the executive reported that they are in talks to integrate AVOD OTTs Vix and PrendeTV apps to pay [...]

Bruno Pruneda, General Manager at StarTV: ‘We are helding conversations to add another sports OTT, strengthen our SVOD Premium offer and add other platforms with Mexican content’

During an interview with Nextv News Latin America, Bruno Pruneda, General Manager at the Mexican DTH StarTV, expressed himself on the main challenges of the pandemic for the company and for pay TV consumption in Mexico; as well as the recent start of StarTVs operations in Mexico City (CDMX); the plan to continue strengthening the [...]

Zapping TV strengthens its presence in Chile and triples its subscriber base in 2020

In an interview with Nextv News Latin America, Gustavo Morande, CEO at Zapping TV, expressed himself on the main challenges that the platform had to face due to the pandemic period; the new features available on the platforms app; the new content available  on its catalog and the intentions to expand Zapping TV’s offer in [...]

JC Acosta: ‘Our aim with Pluto TV is to become the undisputed AVOD leaders in Latin America’

JC Acosta, President at ViacomCBS International Studios & ViacomCBS Networks Americas, was interviewed by Nextv News Latin America, and gave details about Pluto TV’s performance in the region; the goals set for the AVOD OTT in Latin America; its launch in Brazil, which will take place in December, and the boom of AVOD platforms that [...]

Luis Arvizu: “Muy pronto vamos a convertir a Blim TV en una de las plataformas de mayor reproducción de video en Latinoamérica”

Luis Arvizu, CEO de Blim TV (Televisa), dialogó con Nextv News Latin America sobre el lanzamiento de una versión AVOD para la plataforma, previsto para 2021. El ejecutivo dio detalles en torno al alcance que tendrá en la región; las diferencias de contenido que tendrá con el modelo SVOD ya disponible; las oportunidades que les [...]

Luis Arvizu: ‘We are going to turn Blim TV into one of the platforms with the highests video reproduction in Latin America very soon’

Luis Arvizu, CEO at Blim TV (Televisa), was interviewed by Nextv News Latin America due to the launch of an AVOD version for the OTT platform, scheduled for 2021. The executive gave details about the scope it will have in the region; the content differences that it will have with the SVOD version, already available; [...]

“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 in technology to offer value-added services in order to prevent subscriber losses, given the current scenario in Argentina. The executive participated in the panel ” How OTT Pay TV Will Change Pay TV Business” during the first day [...]