Tag Archives: Sky Brazil

Vrio reports 10.56 million subscribers in Latin America and slows down its clients base in the region at the end of Q1 2021

As part of its Q1 2021 results report presentation, Vrio, AT&Ts unit that controls DirecTV’s operations in Latin America and Skys in Brazil, reported a total of 10.559 million subscribers. The figure shows a 383 thousand customers drop in relation to the 10,942 million that the company had reported at the end of Q4 2020, [...]

HBO Max to be available for DirecTV, Sky Brazil and Oi subscribers from its launch date in Latin America

WarnerMedia (AT&T) has officially announced this Monday, March 29th, that HBO Max, the new SVOD OTT that the company will launch in Latin America at the end of June, will be available from its launch date forDirecTV Latin America (AT&T), Sky Brazil (AT&T) and Oi (Oi Group) subscribers. As reported from the company, other partners [...]

AT&T nears deal with TPG Capital to sell DirecTV in the US

As reported on the specialized website CNBC, AT&T is about to run an agreement to sell a stake in DirecTV (DTH), U-Verse (IPTV) and AT&T TV Now (pay TV OTT) to the US investment fund TPG Capital, with whom it had already been holding talks to acquire a stake in the DTH. However, as confirmed [...]

AT&T expects to get better offers for DirecTV sale

As reported by The New York Post on December 20th, the telecommunications company AT&T is disappointed with the offers it received for the sale of DirecTV. According to the web version of the US newspaper, at the beginning of this month, AT&T pushed back a deadline for final bids for DirecTV into January, and told [...]

Vrio, AT&T unit that controls DirecTV operations in Latin America and Sky in Brazil, ends Q3 2020 with 10.9 million clients

As part of AT&Ts Q3 2020 results report presentation, the company reported almost 10.9 million subscribers to Vrio, a unit that controls DirecTV’s operations in Latin America and Sky Brazil. The figure means a total of 229 thousand more clients in relation to the 10.7 million recorded as of June 30th. In turn, Q3 2020 [...]

CNN Brazil to include TV Everywhere platform

CNN Brazil announced through a post on its official social networks that it will have a TV Everywhere platform, called CNN Brasil GO. The news channel will be launched in the country on March 9th and, since its arrival announcement in the country, it was anticipated that the TV network would be a multiplatform news [...]

CNN Brazil to launch on March 9th officially

A year after announcing its arrival at Brazil, CNN confirmed that the date of its official launch will be next March 9th. The  news channel official presentation will take place that day at an event to be held in San Pablo. In addition, although it has not been confirmed yet, local media in Brazil are [...]

Sky Brazil expands its TV Everywhere offer and adds 20 live channels to Sky Play

The Brazilian pay TV operator Sky added 20 new live channels to its Sly Plays OTT offer. This way, Sky is expanding its TV Everywhere offer and now has 30 live channels available via OTT. The new channels now available on Sky Play are A&E, Cartoon Network, Cinemax, CNN, Comedy Central, Discovery Turbo, Disney Channel, [...]

Alianza restructures itself and creates executive board to advance in combating content piracy

In an effort to more closely align with priorities for future consolidated strategies against piracy, the organization Alianza (Contra Pirateria de Television Paga) announced its restructuring with the creation of an executive board of officers. The executive board will be comprised of members from DirecTV, Discovery, ESPN, FOX and Turner, a group of content providers, [...]

Sky Brazil takes Sky Play to the next Rock in Rio edition

The pay TV company Sky Brazil confirmed that it will take part of the next Rock in Rio edition, one of the largest music festivals worldwide, which will celebrate its ninth edition during September and October in the Olympic Park of Rio de Janeiro. The company will have its own stand, called Sly Play Rock, [...]