Brazilian Grupo Globo announced days ago its decision to expand its TV rights to broadcast the South American Qualifying matches towards the next FIFA World Cup, which will be held in Qatar, in 2022. Until 2020, the company was only the holder of the rights for those matches that both Brazilian and Argentine National Teams [...]
According to different specialized websites in Brazil, Brazilian pay TV channel TV Walter Abrahão (TV WA), who has recently acquired the rights to broadcast 56 matches of the South American Qualifiers for the next FIFA World Cup, announced it has lost the rights due to non-payment. According to the information reported, the channel had to [...]
Birtbox, BBC Studios and ITV (UK) OTT, is planning its global launch in 25 new countries, including Europe, Asia, Middle East. Africa and South America. ‘This international expansion plan will firmly establish BritBox as a global premium brand in a rapidly growing sector,” said ITV CEO Carolyn McCall. ‘Offering subscribers the best and biggest collection [...]
Never.no, the award-winning audience engagement specialist, has announced a partnership agreement with Envision Digital Media Consulting, Inc. Based in Miami, Florida, USA, the media solutions company will license Never No’s core products and provide associated support services for broadcasters and content providers across the US Hispanic market, Mexico, Central America, South America, Caribbean Basin, Spain [...]
ESPN announced it has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the next Premier League’s three seasons. The agreement with DAZN, which has the rights for all Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, includes the 2019/2020; 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 seasons and covers pay TV and digital platforms in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela. [...]
A few days after the beginning of football activities in England, ESPN announced it has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the next Premier League’s three seasons. The agreement with DAZN, which has the rights for all Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, includes the 2019/2020; 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 seasons and covers pay TV and digital platforms [...]
VTR, Chilean operator owned by Liberty Latin America which offers triple play to its clients, presented the fastest broadband speed in South America, according to the report made by the Fixed Internet Connections Barometer in the region, published last July 4th, and included operators from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and [...]
Amazon will open its first office focused on the streaming business outside the US. As reported by Globo Group on its news website, the new headquarters will be located in Rio de Janeiro, where the delivery of all outsourced productions for the company in Brazil will be managed. The new Amazon office in Brazil will [...]
During the first day of Nextv Series Argentina 2019, the conference developed last May 14th and 15th at the Intercontinental Hotel in Buenos Aires, executives from Montecable (Uruguay), Digital TV Cable (Bolivia), Wiltel Communications (Argentina) Nagra and Videocable Continental (Paraguay), took part in the panel ‘Future of Pay TV in South America’, where they analyzed [...]
The OTT Crunchyroll, the biggest anime market referent with more than one million subscribers, published a 10 countries list that represented anime’s contents largest audience during the last days of March worldwide. Uruguay was the major anime consumer in Latin America, although the number of subscribers in each country was not posted. In Latin America, [...]