After, in early May, Millicom refused itself to acquire Telefonica’s operations in Costa Rica (where it is known as ‘Movistar’), in an agreement valued at USD 570 million and ran in February 2019, the Spanish press reported that Telefonica began an asset analysis process in Costa Rica (known as ‘Due Diligence’) to make all the [...]
As reported by the Mexican website Mediotiempo, Fox Sports would already have a buyer in Mexico. The channel’s sale in the country is one of the requirements imposed on The Walt Disney Company by the Telecommunications Federal Institute (IFT) to approve Disney-Fox merger, which took place in March last year. According to information given by [...]
WarnerMedia (AT&T) announced it will remove the HBO GO app in the US from next July 31st. The company officially explained that the decision takes place due to the fact that ‘Most customers who have traditionally used HBO Go to stream HBO programming are now able to do so via HBO Max’. HBO GO is [...]
Brazilian pay TV operator Sky (AT&T) added this Wednesday, June 3rd, five new affiliated channels of the FTA TV channel Globo to its programming grid. All of them belong to the RBS TV Group (Red Brasil Sur de Television), and are available for both postpaid and prepaid customers, in SD and HD quality. The new [...]
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 Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) requested that country’s National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to ‘take immediate control of all movable and immovable property, commercial offices, administrative headquarters, operations and broadcasts center, antennas and any other type of facilities’ intended to provide DirecTV Venezuela’s subscription service (AT&T), together with the Bolivarian National Armed Forces. The [...]
Few days before launching its new SVOD OTT, HBO Max, WarnerMedia announced seven new distribution partners for the platform, including Altice USA, Cox Communications, Microsoft Corp, National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), Samsung, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Verizon. Communications. The OTT will be officially launched this May 27th in the US. Up to now, the official [...]
This Tuesday, AT&T announced that it has closed its DirecTV Latin America operations in Venezuela, effective immediately. In an official statement, the company reported that the US government’s sanctions on Venezuela have prohibited the broadcast of Globovision and PDVSA’s TV channels, both of which are required under DirecTV’s license to provide pay TV service in [...]
Due to the movie theaters closure as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic (Coronavirus), the Brazilian Pay TV channel Sky (AT&T) began offering this month the possibility of renting not-released movies in theaters in Latin America through its OTT , Sky Play. The first film available on the platform since May 7th is ‘Emma’, a [...]
In its Q1 2020 quarterly results presentation, AT&T reported 13.2 million subscribers to Vrio, the company’s subsidiary that manages DirecTV’s operations in Latin America. The figure means a 367 thousand subscribers reduction compared to the same period 2019, when the company recorded 13.5 million subscribers. In addition, the results show a 114 thousand subscribers decreasement [...]
