Telefónica announced a new action plan, which includes decoupling its operations in Latin America (not including Brazil) and focusing its business in Brazil, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany. The announcement was made by José María Álvarez-Pallete, Executive Chairman of the Telefónica Group through a letter to the entire community of the company, entitled ‘The [...]
Supported by Akisom Group Limited, Latin American based Axesat and German-based CETel, are combining to create AXESS Networks, to address the needs and offer solutions to the enterprise satellite communications industry. AXESS’ global infrastructure, recognized by the WTA (World Teleport Association), operates three main teleports located in Germany, Mexico and Colombia, and alternative teleports in [...]
The Chilean series Dignidad, which is being filmed and will be watched on Chilean FTA TV through Mega, will also be available in Germany as a Join -Discovery and ProSiebenSat.1’s German OTT- original production. Dignidad is the first international original production of the platform, and will last eight 50-minutes episodes. Set in Chile in 1997, [...]
BitMe, new Televisa’s recently launched and focus on eSports, video games, technology and geek culture channel, announced it will develop the Gamescom 2019 live coverage, considered the most important video game expo in Europe and the second worldwide. “With this special coverage, BitMe will be the only specialized media in Latin America that develops the [...]
Sports OTT DAZN, soon to be launched in Brazil, could be one of the possible candidates to buy Fox Sports in the country, according to Brazilian journalists Eduardo Ohata (Yahoo) and Mauricio Lima (Veja magazine). Fox Sports sale was an Economic Defense Administrative Council’s (CADE) decision, which approved the merger between Fox and Disney but [...]
DAZN Group announced significant changes in its structure. In the Latin American Spanish market, where DAZN was not launched as an OTT yet, it created ‘an innovative off-the-shelf network’ called DAZN +. In addition, the sports platform VOD ePlayer was renamed, and its new denomination is DAZN Player. ‘This is a decisive moment for DAZN, [...]