Category: Pay TV

Telecom, Claro and Telecentro are already featuring pay TV OTT offerings in Argentina

July 28, 2021
Claro Argentina (Argentina) Total direct pay TV subscribers

Argentine telecommunications companies Claro (America Movil), Telecom Argentina and Telecentro are featuring pay TV OTT offers, although they have not developed an open promotion of the initiative yet, as Movistar (Telefonica) and DirecTV (Grupo Werthein) do.  Likewise, Telecom and Telecentro’s offers can be hired as standalone products, while Claro’s one  is restricted to the company’s [...]

Santos Laguna finishes its agreement to broadcast its Liga MX’s matches with Fox Sports Mexico

July 22, 2021
Fox Sports Basic Channels (Mexico) Sports package penetration of total pay TV subscribers

The sports TV network Fox Sports Mexico has announced this week that it will not broadcast Mexican football club Santos Laguna’s matches. The news was confirmed this last Monday, July 19th, a few days before the beginning of the Mexican Professional Football League’s (Liga MX) Torneo Apertura 2021. The announcement means the first time a [...]

Claro Sports strengthens 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games coverage in Latin America with Applicaster

July 21, 2021
Applicaster (Worldwide) Online Video Platforms (OVP) suppliers global sales revenues

Pay TV channel Claro Sports (America Movil) announced that it has launched apps for Apple TV and Android TV devices, with the aim of strengthening its Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games coverage in Latin America. For this initiative, Claro Sports chose the Applicaster‘s app management technology, in order to extend the event’s distribution in the region, [...]

America Movil hopes to get license to provide pay TV in Mexico before the end of this year

July 18, 2021
America Movil Group Group revenues

During its Q2 2021 results report presentation, Daniel Hajj, CEO at the telecommunications company America Movil, said that they expect the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT), entity in charge of regulating and supervising the telecommunications market in the country, to grant it the license to provide pay TV in Mexico before the end of the [...]

CNN Brazil continues to develop its multiplatform strategy and plans to enter the FTA TV market

July 15, 2021
CNN Brasil (Brazil) TV channel reach

Pay TV channel CNN Brazil, the Brazilian version of the US news channel, launched in the country in mid-March 2020, is planning to expand its operations to all video distribution platforms, and is evaluating the possibility of expanding towards the FTA TV market in the country. The information was reported by Renata Alfonso, new CNN [...]

Dataxis resumes its webinars agenda with debate on how to choose the right OTT strategy for pay TV offers

July 14, 2021
Accedo (Worldwide) Online Video Platforms (OVP) suppliers global sales revenues

Going on with its 2021 virtual events agenda, Dataxis announces that it will hold a new webinar, called ‘Choosing the right OTT strategy for your pay TV service’, which will be held in English, and will take place next Thursday, August 19th at 12:00 PM (ART). Registration for the event, which will be sponsored by [...]

Telefonica Peru requests Osiptel to reconsider its resolution and reports that the regulator distorts competition in the country’s pay TV market

July 13, 2021
Movistar Peru (Peru) Total direct pay TV subscribers

Telecommunications company Telefonica Peru, where, as in the rest of the Latin American countries where it operates, it does so under the ‘Movistar‘ brand, has officially announced this last Monday, July 12th, that it has requested the Peruvian Organismo Supervisor de Inversion Privada en Telecomunicaciones (Osiptel), entity in charge of regulating the public telecommunications services [...]

Claro Sports acquires rights to broadcast the last step of the Copa Libertadores for the Mexican market

July 12, 2021
Claro Sports (Mexico) Sport channel reach

Pay TV channel Claro Sports (America Movil) has officially announced last week that it had acquired the rights to broadcast in Mexico the remaining matches of this edition of the Copa Conmebol Libertadores, starting on its Round of 16’s stage, as of today. According to the information reported, the matches involved will be broadcast on [...]

The football business value reaches its lowest level in Latin America

July 9, 2021
Dazn (Brazil) SVOD and streaming service subscribers

Although it generated USD 900 million, 2020 will not be remembered as a fruitful year for the distribution of local football on Pay TV. According to a Dataxis report made last week,  in the year-on-year comparison, distribution revenues fell by 38% in dollars. Although 2021 is expected to be a recovery year, the business revenue [...]

TV Azteca’s pay TV channels are now available for Tigo’s clients in Panama

July 6, 2021
TV Azteca (Mexico) Total TV network revenues

Telecommunications company Tigo (Millicom International Cellular SA) has announced a new agreement with TV Azteca (Grupo Salinas), through which channels TV Azteca Mundo, TV Azteca Corazon, Clic and TV Azteca Cinema are now part of the company’s catalog in Panama. The agreement came into effect this last Thursday, July 1st. According to the terms of [...]