HBO has announced six new Brazilian titles, with distribution for Latin America and the Caribbean including three new original productions that are already in development. They are ‘Area de serviço’; ‘O amor segundo Buenos Aires’ and ‘O beijo adolescente’. In addition, HBO Latin America announced three co-productions, already approved by the National Film Agency (Ancine). [...]
Brazilian National Film Agency (Ancine), together with the country’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), established a team to evaluate the possible joint regulation of the administrative blocking of websites that distribute audiovisual content without the previous authorization of their owners. The initiative is based on providing more agility and effectiveness in the fight against piracy, since [...]
A few months after the Union Court of Auditors (TCU) -responsible for the financial supervision of Brazilian State agencies- decided to stop the National Films Agency’s (Ancine) activities, aimed to promote Brazilian audiovisual industry, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s President, said that the agency could disappear or be privatized. ‘It will have a filter, since it is [...]
Last April 22nd, Brazilians National Film Agency (Ancine), National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) together with the Federal Police met with Carrefour supermarket network’s authorities to request that the company remove Android TV Box Tx2 STBs, which were offered through Carrefour’s loudspeakers in a store located in San Pablo, highlighting that the device makes it possible to [...]
Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and National Film Agency (Ancine) will have to decide in the second half of the year on the acquisition of Time Warner (today Warner Media) by AT&T. ‘If the decision is that AT & T can not own HBO, Turner (TNT and CNN) and Sky at the same time, one [...]
Brazilian National Film Agency (Ancine) published on the Oficial Union Newspaper the regulatory agenda of strategic issues that will be reviewed between 2019 and 2020. According to the entity, the document is a result from an internal agency’s areas and Brazilian society consulting process. The document foresees to regulate VOD segment, where it will focus [...]
‘We follow Brazilian Law at 100%’, said Michael Hartman, AT&T senior vice president to Paulist newspaper Estado, related to the decision that Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and National Film Agency (Ancine) must make, in which they will define whether AT&T will be able to continue providing satellite content to Sky and other channels such [...]
Economic Defense Administrative Council (CADE) established this Friday 15th, February as the deadline for Disney and Fox to present a final manifestation for its merger process trial, according to what Brazilian Diário Oficial da União reported. CADE already had pronouncements from Sky, Telefonica, Net, Claro and the rest of pay TV operators. Brazilian National [...]
Ancine’s broad (Brazilian National Film Agency) defined a timetable for regulatory analysis of the merger between AT&T and Time Warner, which will include seven stages and should conclude in the second half of 2019. Analysis will include the following steps: a gathering information process, market agents affected by the operation pronouncements, Market Follow-up Superintendence manifestation, [...]
Brazilian Pay TV broadcasted 2,684 original titles of that country in 2018, according to information provided by National Film Agency’s Brazilian Film and Audiovisual Observatory (OCA). Brazilian programming in Qualified Channels (CEQ), which must include three hours and a half Brazilian content a day, was 7.5% and reached 14.3% between 6 PM and 12 AM. [...]