As published by the TAVI Latam news portal, The Walt Disney Company confirmed to the website that the Fox Sports signal will be eliminated from Latin America on December 1, 2021, and that, in its replacement, the brand will launch the ESPN 4 channel. However, in the case of Argentina and Brazil there is still [...]
The Fox Sports channel would be replaced by ESPN 4, a new Disney brand signal, as of December 1st, 2021 in Latin America, according to unofficial information provided by the Tribuna Deportivanews portal. In addition, the source stated that pay TV operators had already been notified of the change. Since The Walt Disney Company acquired [...]
Disney began broadcasting matches of the Brasileirão soccer tournament throughout Latin America through the ESPN Pay TV service and its recently launched OTT, Star +. Until now, the only streaming service that was allowed to show the championship for the region had been Brasileirao Play, the Fanatiz platform. On the other hand, on pay TV [...]
ESPN made an agreement with Bundesliga and obtained the exclusive rights of FTA, paid and digital TV, to broadcast their matches in almost all of South America for the next five years. Since this season, the channel will offer the best German soccer to their audiences in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and [...]
The Walt Disney Company Latin America has officially announced this last Thursday, July 15th, the full Star+ catalog, its new SVOD OTT, which will be launched in Latin America on August 31st. The platform will bring together general entertainment and sports content aimed at adult audiences, with live sports produced by ESPN, as well as [...]
After, at the end of May, the media conglomerate Grupo Lauman, chaired by businessman Manuel Arroyo, acquired Fox Sports operations in Mexico, Arroyo, CEO of the company, was interviewed by Mexican website ‘Expansion’, where he gave details about the Group’s ideas for Fox’s sports business in the country, which will keep the same name after [...]
The pay TV channel ESPN (The Walt Disney Company) announced that it will broadcast the UEFA Champions League’s Final this coming Saturday, June 29th, in several countries in the region. For the first time, the channel will air the competition with additional descriptive audio, using secondary audio programming (SAP), with the aim of providing a [...]
According to the information reported on several specialized websites in Brazil, the SVOD OTT PlayPlus (Grupo Record) will remove Disney’s linear TV channels from its catalog as of next May 31st. The platform is reporting its subscribers through an email that Disney channels (Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Jr) and ESPN’s (ESPN, ESPN Brasil, [...]
According to the information reported by the Brazilian website UOL, WarnerMedia (AT&T), owner of the TNT Sports channel, intends to negotiate for the Copa Libertadores TV rights in Latin America, for the 2023-2026 period. The news has not been confirmed by any company executive yet. Also, according to UOL, WanerMedia would start negotiations for the [...]
As reported on various specialized websites in Argentina, some matches of the Professional Football League in that country will be broadcast on FTA TV again, through the ‘TV Publica’ channel’. According to the information reported this Thursday, February 25th, executives from the country’s Government has reached an agreement with Disney – one of the owners [...]