Tag Archives: Coronavirus

Canal 13 Chile decreased almost 30% in revenues in Q2 2021 due to pandemic

Canal 13 Chile decreased 28.89% in income from ordinary activities for Q2 2021, compared to the same period of 2020, when it obtained USD 39,009,000. Meanwhile, for June of this year, it only reached USD 27,739,000. As it was explained in the report, the result is due to the effect that the pandemic’s restrictions had [...]

Globo cancels its fiction productions until April due to the pandemic worsening in Brazil

Brazilian company Globo has recently announced its decision to cancel all its fictions filming processes, with the aim of initially resuming them on April 4th. As reported from different specialized websites, the measure was taken due to the worsening of the Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil. In relation to the worsening of the pandemic crisis and [...]

Polka resumes fiction content productions after almost a year

According to several specialized websites in Argentina, the Polka production company will once again produce fiction content in the country after having cancelled all its productions for almost a year, due to the advance of the Coronavirus pandemic. According to information reported on the Infobae website, the new production, whose title has not been informed [...]

Claro adds 19 new cities to its FTTH network in Colombia, where it already records a total of 110

As officially reported by Claro Colombia (America Móvil), the Colombian subsidiary of América Movil has expanded its FTTH network coverage during the period of the new Coronavirus pandemic. The company currently records a total of 110 cities on its network, where it offers internet, TV and fixed telephony. Colombian cities in which Claro has expanded [...]

Argentine sports TV channels would resume Professional Football League’s matches at the end of October

As reported by specialized websites in Argentina, the Argentine Professional Football League would be resumed next October 23rd, although the Government’s approval to resume it is still pending. The competition will be called Copa Liga Profesional 2020, and will be made up of 24 teams, divided into six groups with four teams each. In relation [...]

IFT grants new deadline to sell Fox Sports in Mexico until December 4th

Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) officially reported last Monday that it had granted a new deadline for the sale of Fox Sports México, one of the requirements that the regulator had established to approve the Disney-Fox merger, officially concluded in March 2019.  Initially, the IFT had given Disney a six-months period to find a buyer [...]

Quibi explores a possible sale a few months after its launch

As officially reported by The Wall Street Journal this last Monday, September 21st, according to sources close to Quibi, three possible stages for the new platform, recently launched, are being evaluated. The main reason focuses on the poor results that it has been recording since its launch, to which Jeffrey Katzenberg, Co-founder, attributed the Coronavirus [...]

DAZN reduces its operations in Brazil due to the Coronavirus pandemic

As reported by the specialized Brazilian website UOL, from DAZN, OTT that has been operating in Brazil for almost two years, they announced that these will be reduced, with the aim of reducing their costs worldwide after the financial impact that the Coronavirus pandemic caused on the platform. From DAZN, so far, they have not [...]

CuriosityStream confirms launch of three new original series between 2020 and 2021

The OTT CuriosityStream announced days ago three new original series that will premiere from the last quarter of this year and the beginning of 2021, which will be available to its audiences on VOD and pay TV globally, also in Latin America.  The announced titles are Nature through her eyes and My wild backyard, which [...]

Cuban Government submits pay TV offer as a measure to alleviate economic crisis due to the pandemic period

As part of a new measures package recently announced by the Cuban Government, the Cuban Economy and Planning Ministry launched this week the report Cuba y su desafio economico y social, which highlights a series of measures to be applied due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic in several areas, including the telecommunications [...]