Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) Standardization Commission President, Pedro Bordaberry, pointed that Uruguayan football clubs financial problems would lie in how bad TV rights are sold, and expressed that the only possible way to market World Cup Qualifiers TV rights would be to create AUF TV. ‘Here what is being disputed are World Cup Qualifiers rights. [...]
After several quarter of losing subscribers, during Q2 2018 Latam’s pay TV market reached a quarterly growth of 1%. The World Cup has been the main factor of the change in trend. The market now exhibits 72.06 million of legal pay TV subscribers. According to Dataxis, DirecTV took a great advantage of the soccer global [...]
Toolbox, specialist in the development of OTT services and platforms, shared some data on the performance of its technology during the soccer World Cup 2018. The company was in charge of supporting the online platforms of important customers in Latin America, including operators and content providers. According to the company, “Toolbox technology exceeded the expectations [...]
Uruguay’s pay TV operator TCC provided data on the performance of its online service TCC Vivo during the soccer World Cup in Russia. According to the information, more than 20,000 customers watched games of the event on the platform, through 100,000 different PCs. The most watched live match was Argentina vs. Nigeria. In second place [...]
TV Azteca CEO Benjamín Salinas said in the Q218 report that soccer costs are becoming “less sustainable” from a financial perspective so the company is evaluating whether to continue or not in this business. “We are obligated to review the soccer business in a comprehensive manner and to evaluate the viability of staying there,” the [...]
Televisa Deportes has been awarded with YouTube’s Gold Play Button for quintupling its fan base by reaching more than 1 million subscribers on that video platform, where the company offered content of the World Cup in Russia. In a statement, Televisa said that this increase reflects the interest of Mexicans for soccer and sports content: [...]
Aldea, a provider of high quality video services and solutions for the television and media industries, announce that is has successfully delivered live transmissions of the 2018 FIFA World Cup to 14 customers around the world, including countries like Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay. The customers distributed all 64 games in HD and UHD/4K to [...]
Televisa announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2018. The company’s net sales during the period increased 16.2% to MX $ 26,702 million (USD 1,398 million). This increase mainly was attributable to revenue growth in the Content and Cable segments, the company explained in its report. Televisa’s net income increased 153% to MX [...]
Peruvian regulator Osiptel said that is has begun a sanction procedure against the free-to-air TV channel Latina and pay TV operator DirecTV for alleged infringements of the Law of Repression of Anticompetitive Behaviors related to the retransmission of the Latina signal during the World Cup. According to the regulator, the decision was made after the [...]
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has signed a deal with Twitter to produce, in its official account (@cbf_futebol) exclusive video contents of the national team in the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The agreement, already in force, includes live streaming of Brazil’s training sessions, and news related to the matches, press conferences, interviews and behind-the-scenes [...]