Sky Brasil decided to eliminate its TV Everywhere Sky Play platform and replace it with the DirecTV Go service, which had been incorporated into the DTH signal subscription plan just two weeks ago. As announced, the application will stop working at the end of 2021 and the operator will move towards a unified streaming model [...]
SVOD OTT DirecTV GO (AT&T, soon to be acquired by the Argentine Grupo Werthein) has launched a new plan for the Mexican market, through which its subscribers will be able to access all the Televisa’s owned blim tv platform catalog. As Vanessa Rosas Molina, COO at blim tv, reported to Nextv News Latin America, unlike [...]
AT&T and the Argentine holding company Grupo Werthein have officially announced this last Wednesday, July 21st that the Argentine company has run an agreement to acquire AT&T’s Vrio Corp’s business unit. Both companies expect the transaction to close in early 2022. The announcement came after AT&T sold a part of DirecTV’s operations in the US [...]
DirecTV has announced this last Wednesday that its SVOD OTT DirecTV GO, available in several Latin American countries, will offer those who subscribe to the platform the possibility of accessing HBO Max for free for two years starting on June 29th, date on which WarnerMedia (AT&T and Discovery) announced the official arrival of the platform [...]
As part of its Q1 2021 financial results presentation, the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) reported that its FTTH customer base increased by 5.6% so far this year, and ended Q1 2021 with 520 thousand subscribers, adding 27 thousand new customers compared to the 493 thousand reported at the end of 2020. In addition, [...]
According to the latest Netflix quarterly results report (Q4 2020), the platform informed that the reality show ‘Big Brother Brazil’ ranked second in a top 10 of the platform’s content catalog most searched on Google worldwide during last year. In the top 10 shown by Netflix, ‘Big Brother Brazil’ is the only title which is [...]
The growth observed in OTT pay TV remains slow in Latin America. As reported by Dataxis, at the end of 2020, this technology represents almost 1.3 million subscribers; barely 2% of the pay TV market. A review of DirecTV, Telefonica and America Movil strategies shows the different strategies implemented to change this static situation. Low [...]
The growth observed in OTT pay TV remains slow in Latin America. As reported by Dataxis, at the end of 2020, this technology represents almost 1.3 million subscribers; barely 2% of the pay TV market. A review of DirecTV, Telefonica and America Movil strategies shows the different strategies implemented to change this static situation. Low [...]
Televisa has announced this Tuesday, February 24th, that its SVOD OTT blim tv is already part of the DirecTV GO (AT&T) catalog in Mexico. The initiative, which has been available since February 18th, allows DirecTV GO subscribers to access 35 live TV channels and more than 32 thousand hours of on-demand content, including all Televisa [...]
Colombian telecommunications company ETB (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota) and DirecTV announced this last Tuesday, February 10th, a new partnership that will allow ETB’s FTTH customers to add DirecTV GO’s catalog to their plan. As reported by the Colombian company, the aim of the partnership is to offer its clients a more diversified portfolio to [...]