14 days after the official launch of Disney+ in Latin America, scheduled for next November 17th, The Walt Disney Company launched a pre-sale offer of the SVOD OTT, available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay. The pre-launch offer is only available through the official Disney+ website, and is [...]
The sports TV channel FUTV, officially launched last February 29th, has recently joined Sky grid (Televisa and AT&T). With the news, the channel is already part of the catalog of almost all pay TV operators in the country. To date, apart from Sky, FUTV is available for customers of Cabletica, Telecable, Kölbi, Claro and Tigo, [...]
As officially reported by the Costa Rican newspaper ‘La Republica’ on its web version, the pay TV sports channel Tigo Sports is expanding its reach in Costa Rica, and will now be available to Coopelesca and Super Cable customers. With this news, clients of the two companies will be able to access a sports catalog [...]
Claro (América Movil) started its broadband offer via FTTH in Costa Rica. As officially reported by the website of the local newspaper ‘La Nacion’, who detailed that, so far, the service is available in Curridabat, San Francisco de Dos Rios, La Unión, Pavas, Sanchez, Mata Redonda and San Antonio de Belen. ‘At Claro, we are [...]
Telecommunications company Millicom, which operates in Latin America under the ‘Tigo’ brand, announced this Thursday that it is already offering the FUTV channel, officially launched in late February, as part of its TV channels catalog , with which it shares the rights to broadcast the Costa Rican Professional Football League through its sports channel, Tigo [...]
The Spanish company Telefonica announced on Thursday an agreement to sell its operations in Costa Rica with Liberty Latin America, valued at USD 500 million. The agreement took place after the frustrated negotiation with Millicom, which ended in a lawsuit made Telefónica against the company that operates under the ‘Tigo’ brand in Latin America ‘for [...]
As reported by several specialized websites, days ago Tigo Costa Rica (Millicom) reported that it would be willing to make its sports channel Tigo Sports, owner of the TV rights to broadcast five teams local matches in the Costa Rican Professional Football League, available to the rest of the Costa Rican pay TV operators, in [...]
Roku officially announced it is adding the Brazilian OTT PlayKids, focused on offering children and educational content and digital books, in several Latin American countries, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru. PlayKids can be accessed through the Roku channel store for a monthly subscription valued at [...]
As reported by several specialized websites in Costa Rica, due to the advance of the Coronavirus pandemic globally, the country’s Government made the decision to put the deadline for the implementation of the second stage of the analog blackout off until July 14th, 2021, one year later than it was originally scheduled. In Costa Rica, [...]
The Colombian multinational company Rappi, based in Bogota and specialized in home delivery of products, announced it is expanding its business model with the launch of Rappi Entertainment, an entertainment alternatives portfolio, covering video games, music, live events and online shopping within its app. The company is currently operating in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa [...]
