Brazilian pay TV channel Sky (AT&T) announced the strengthening of its TV Everywhere offering by adding eight new channels to its OTT, Sky Play. The new channels, already available, are AMC, Animal Planet, Boomerang, E !, Fox Sports, History Channel, Nat Geo Wild and Nick Jr. In December last year, the operator had announced 20 [...]
The Colombian FTA TV channel RCN announced last week that its international distribution arm agreed to sell its ‘El Capo’ series, starred by Colombian actor Marlon Moreno, to Estrella TV, a US Hispanic channel, where it will be released today. RCN originally released ‘El Capo’ in 2009, produced by Fox Telecolombia. Its plot focuses on [...]
The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) reported the final numbers for the country’s pay TV market in April, in which the sector recorded 15.32 million clients. Although Brazil is still losing pay TV subscribers month by month, in April a decrease of 55 thousand customers was reported, the lowest number since December 2018. As a [...]
Netflix announced that it will begin to cancel subscriber accounts that are paying the monthly subscription but have not accessed its content for a year or more. The decision will take place in Latin America, where OTT already recorded almost 35 million subscribers, and the rest of the world. ‘On Netflix, the last thing we [...]
As recently reported by Cuban specialized websites, DTT reached 76.2% coverage on the island, according to Carlos Arencibia Garcia, Technical Director of the Cuban Radio Communication and Broadcasting Company (Radiocuba). In addition, 63 new DTT broadcasters were installed in the territory, as a result of a donation from China, to improve coverage. ‘Despite the conditions [...]
The Argentine content distributor Glowstar Media announced a partnership agreement with the Argentine platform Flixxo to distribute its content in the international market. Flixxo’s titles include fictional content in film or micro-series format. Most of them are premiere premium content, animations for young people and adults and formats for local adaptation in different territories, as [...]
A day after its official launch, Comcast and WarnerMedia announced a deal to bring HBO Max to Xfinity X1 and Flex customers. As part of the deal, existing Xfinity HBO customers will have access to HBO Max at no additional cost via the HBO Max app and website while the companies work to quickly bring [...]
As announced in late April, WarnerMedia officially launched HBO Max, its new SVOD OTT, on May 27th in the US. Although the company has not confirmed an official arrival date for the platform in Latin America, it could be launched in the region in 2021. The monthly HBO Max subscription is valued at USD 14.99, [...]
Miguel Valladares, General Manager at the Peruvian producer Tondero, expressed himself in an interview about the Coronavirus pandemic impact t on the entertainment industry and considered the possibility of including not-released-in-cinemas movies on digital platforms. ‘We are evaluating that possibility. In fact, we had a fairly long schedule of movie releases. We are analyzing if [...]
Movistar has released ‘Manual de Supervivencia’ earlier this month, its first production made in Argentina, part of the series production plan that the company announced last year. It is a new eight-episode series, which is now available to watch on demand on Movistar Play. Other series also available on the platform are ‘Un dia eres [...]
