Venezuelan DTH service SimpleTV began offering a free window of five premium signals to its subscribers of the basic pack. Until December 15, channels A&E, AXN, H2, Lifetime and Telemundo will be available to all users from their own devices. On the other hand, the company began to spread on its social networks that it [...]
The Government of Venezuela launched “FTA Venezuela”, a free DTH service for its entire territory that will offer 27 national and international TV channels and 10 radio stations. Through the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel), the State announced the project and described it as “the new way of watching television“. However, although content viewing will be [...]
Provider of flexible, end-to-end solutions for OTT service providers Setplex has announced this last Tuesday, June 8th that it has entered into a joint venture with VIVOplay, a leading virtual multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) based in Caracas, Venezuela, to deliver the Setplex end-to-end OTT platform capabilities with VIVOplay channels to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) [...]
In an interview with the local website ‘Efecto Cocuyo’, Maria Elisa Alvarez, Marketing Director at the Venezuelan DTH Simple TV (which previously operated as DirecTV in the country) reported that the operator plans to strengthen its content catalog with new premium options, including channels such as HBO, ESPN and Star, a brand that, as of [...]
As reported through his official Twitter account by the Venezuelan journalist specialized in telecommunications Armando Espinoza, the country’s Comision Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Conatel) rejected prices presented by the Scale Capital investment fund, to start marketing Simple TV, name recently adopted for DirecTV operations in Venezuela. As reported by Espinoza, Conatel requested to reduce the values [...]
After AT&T confirmed last May its decision to cancel DirecTV’s operations in Venezuela, finally, the DTH, acquired last August by the Scale Capital firm, will change its name and will be renamed as ‘Simple TV’. Those who were DirecTV subscribers have reported that the Simple TV menu was already displayed on their STBs. The new [...]
OneFootball’s app and website, focused on sports news and results monitoring, announced on September 30th it has acquired the rights to broadcast the German Football League (Bundesliga) in several South American countries for free. The company made the announcement days after acquiring the rights also for Brazil. With the news, the Bundesliga matches are available [...]
As reported by the Venezuelan journalist Arnaldo Espinoza on his official Twitter account this last Sunday, September 20th, DirecTV Venezuela is close to making new channels available. According to the information reported by the journalist, ESPN2 and HBO will soon join the DTH programming grid. Scale Capital is the legal representative in charge of DirecTV [...]
As reported by Bloomberg last September 9th, AT&T is failing to attract potential buyer interest for Vrio, the company’s unit that controls DirecTV’s operations in Latin America and Sky in Brazil, and has been involved in the process for about four months. Similarly, and as reported by The Wall Street Journal last August 28th, the [...]
The Scale Capital firm announced this last August 14th an agreement to acquire DirecTV Venezuela (AT&T). The news was confirmed by Scale Capital through a press release. In addition, Scale Capital reported that the agreement ‘allows immediate service to more than 2 million families who were subscribers of DirecTV Venezuela’. On its quarterly results report [...]