Monthly Archives: January 2021

Caracol TV to produce premium TV contents in partnership with The Mediapro Studio

Colombian FTA TV channel Caracol TV has announced this Wednesday, January 27th, a partnership with the Spanish company The Mediapro Studio, with the aim of producing premium TV content for the international market. Although the companies did not detail the amount of content that makes up the agreement yet, they reported that the first title [...]

Vrio, AT&T unit that controls DirecTV’s operations in Latin America and Sky’s in Brazil, ends 2020 with almost 11 million subscribers

As part of its Q4 2020 results report presentation, AT&T reported a total of 10.942 million subscribers to Vrio, a unit owned by the telecommunications company, that controls DirecTVs operations in Latin America and Skys in Brazil. As in Q3, Vrio featured positive net additions again, since, as of September 30th, 2020, it reported 10,893 [...]

Amazon Prime Video invests in Mexico with new local Amazon Originals

Amazon announced this Tuesday, January 26th, during its Prime Video Presents Mexico virtual event the premiere of several titles and new seasons of Amazon Originals for the country, including a new documentary series about the Club Deportivo Guadalajara – better known as Las Chivas; together with new seasons of the already released Pan y circo [...]

Disney bets on PVOD format to release movies on Disney+

Disney+, The Walt Disney Company’s new SVOD OTT, officially launched in Latin America on November 17th, 2020, released the official trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, the next title from Walt Disney Animation Studios, whose premiere is scheduled for next March 5th, both in movie theaters and on the platform. Access to the new [...]

WarnerMedia launches ‘Hora H’, with premieres of HBO series on its pay TV channels

WarnerMedia Latin America (AT&T) has recently announced the launch of Hora H in the region. It is a new segment where the first episode of new HBO seasons and series are broadcast on WarnerMedia pay TV channels, such as Warner Channel, TNT, Space, TNT Series and Cinemax. As officially reported by WarnerMedia Latin America giving [...]

Telefonica to stop marketing its DTH offer in El Salvador on April 30th

Telecommunications company Telefonica, whose operations in Latin America are known under the Movistar brand, reported through an announcement to its clients that, as of the end of April, it will stop marketing its DTH offer in El Salvador, where it is called Movistar TV. As you know, our pay TV service is delivered through a [...]

Netflix continues betting in Mexico and plans to invest more than USD 300 million in the country in 2021

As reported this last Monday, January 25th by the Forbes Mexico website, Netflix plans to make a more than USD 300 million investment in the country, with the aim of making about 50 original productions, whether local or global filmed there, to be premiered during 2021. The figure is added  to the USD 200 million [...]

Telecentro enables its clients Prime Video access for free for a three months period

Argentine pay TV operator Telecentro has officially reported that, as of last Thursday, January 21st, it started offering access to Amazon Prime Video for free to its customers for a three months promotional period. In mid-2020, Telecentro became the first operator in Argentina to integrate Amazon’s SVOD OTT into its STBs. As officially reported by [...]

Sky launches premium offer for Copa do Nordeste in Brazil

According to information recently reported by several specialized websites in Brazil, the pay TV operator Sky (AT&T) acquired the rights to broadcast the 2021 edition of the Copa do Nordeste, a competition for which the DTH launched a premium package that can be hired both on a monthly basis to access some matches, for R$ [...]