This Tuesday, AT&T announced that it has closed its DirecTV Latin America operations in Venezuela, effective immediately. In an official statement, the company reported that the US government’s sanctions on Venezuela have prohibited the broadcast of Globovision and PDVSA’s TV channels, both of which are required under DirecTV’s license to provide pay TV service in [...]
ViacomCBS announced that its AVOD OTT Pluto TV is now available in 17 Latin American countries. The platform has been launched in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. In Brazil, the OTT will be launched at the end of [...]
The Venezuelan Government has officially confirmed that the Venesat-1 satellite, on which the CANTV’s DTH operations were developed, will not provide telecommunications services anymore due to a failure. Made by the Chinese company Great Wall Industry Corp and launched in 2008 from the Asian country, Venesat 1 had a useful life of 15 years, with [...]
The Venezuelan Venesat 1 satellite (78.0 ° W), on which the CANTV DTH operated, stopped working on March 13th when, after making a series of abrupt movements, it kept out of orbit. Made by the Chinese company Great Wall Industry Corp and launched in 2008 from the Asian country, Venesat 1 had a useful life [...]
This month, the Chilean Football Channel (CDF) added the Female Copa Libertadores to its programming grid, tournament which is taking place this year in Ecuador between October 11th and 27th. ‘Including the Female Copa Libertadores matches with our commitment to go along with Chilean football teams in international cups and to add new content to [...]
As officially reported on the Marca Claro website, part of the America Movil Group, all Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games activities will be available for free for the first time on the Marca Claro official YouTube account. The offer will be valid in 17 Latin American countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican [...]
Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro, announced a new FTTH plan to be implemented in the country’s municipalities, and aims that, by November this year, 80% of the country’s municipalities will be connected. It will be developed by Cantv and will be implemented in the Capital District and in Miranda and Zulia states at first, to later [...]
DTH DirecTV announced it is suggesting a new way of living the US Open, fourth and final 2019 season’s Grand Slam. From next Monday, August 26th, and during the first five days, DirecTV and ESPN are presenting US Open Mix, which will offer an extended coverage of what happens at the Flushing Meadows Park courts, [...]
A few days after the beginning of football activities in England, ESPN announced it has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the next Premier League’s three seasons. The agreement with DAZN, which has the rights for all Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, includes the 2019/2020; 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 seasons and covers pay TV and digital platforms [...]
In its ‘Telecommunications Area Figures Report’ belonging to the fourth quarter 2018, Venezuelan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) recorded 4,623,817 pay TV subscribers in the country. The previous mentioned figure represents a 1.51% fall compared to last year’s same period, where there were 4,694,862 pay TV subscribers in Venezuela. From the total pay TV subscribers already [...]
