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 [...]
Another of the panels that will take place during what will be the second Nextv Sport Latin America’s virtual edition is called ‘The sport TV business in the new normality’, which is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 5th, between 11:30 AM (CDMX) and 12:10 PM (CDMX). Registration for this one and the rest of the [...]
As part of its Q1 2021 results report presentation, Vrio, AT&T’s unit that controls DirecTV’s operations in Latin America and Sky’s in Brazil, reported a total of 10.559 million subscribers. The figure shows a 383 thousand customers drop in relation to the 10,942 million that the company had reported at the end of Q4 2020, [...]
Going on with its 2021 virtual events agenda, Dataxis will hold in a few days the second Nextv Sport Latin America’s virtual edition, which will take place on Tuesday, May 4th and Wednesday, May 5th, both days starting at 9:00 AM (MXT). Registration for all panels of the event is now open, and can be [...]
WarnerMedia (AT&T) has officially announced this Monday, March 29th, that HBO Max, the new SVOD OTT that the company will launch in Latin America at the end of June, will be available from its launch date forDirecTV Latin America (AT&T), Sky Brazil (AT&T) and Oi (Oi Group) subscribers. As reported from the company, other partners [...]
This coming Tuesday, September 22nd, Dataxis will hold a new virtual panel, in which various topics related to the personalized experience on TV will be discussed. The event is titled ‘Search, discovery, and personalization: propelling the TV experience forward’, and will take place starting at 1:00 PM (ART). Registration is free and can be done [...]
DirecTV GO, the platform that combines the best of live TV and on-demand content, arrives in Mexico to delight local customers with the best premieres, series, documentaries, movies, sports and an extensive premium offer. Starting on March 24th, users will be able to subscribe without a contract or service installation, simply requires an internet connection. [...]
WarnerMedia announced a partnership with the new Xtreme Polo League (XPL), the first professional polo league, to create a world-leading franchise. WarnerMedia will take advantage of its platforms and ability to boost polo internationally, taking care of XPL’s production, contents distribution and marketing rights representation worldwide. ‘We are very excited about the new format developed [...]
In an effort to more closely align with priorities for future consolidated strategies against piracy, the organization Alianza (Contra Pirateria de Television Paga) announced its restructuring with the creation of an executive board of officers. The executive board will be comprised of members from DirecTV, Discovery, ESPN, FOX and Turner, a group of content providers, [...]
British distributor Parade Media ran an agreement with Canadian production company Omnifilm Entertainment, which will allow the UK company to expand Omnifilm’s presence in Latin America. As stated in the agreement, Parade Media will exclusively represent the Canadian company’s current and future productions rights in the Latin American market. Some of the titles involved in [...]