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Costa Rica:
Liberty Latin America acquires Telefónica’s Costa Rican unit
After the failure of the transaction between Telefónica and Millicom, the Spanish company has reached an agreement to sell Movistar Costa Rica to Liberty Latin America (LLA). The announcement was made by both companies on July 30. The amount of the...
Brazil:
Sky sticks to its strategy of adding Globo affiliates by incorporating three new ones in Paraná State
Satellite Pay TV operator Sky Brasil (AT&T) has added three Paraná State Globo affiliates to its line up. In addition, it has expanded coverage of an affiliate in the above mentioned state that was already included in the line up in other...
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Latin America:
BBC and ITV to launch OTT Britbox in South America
British streaming platform Britbox will be launched in some South American countries in the near future, as part of a global expansion plan. The announcement was made by Britbox owners, namely pubic service broadcaster BBC and Free to Air channel ITV, both British....
Global:
Spotify advances into the audiovisual market with video podcasts
Music streaming service Spotify has begun to launch video podcasts with a view to gaining ground in the audiovisual market. Although the music streaming service started testing this new alternative with select users some months ago, on July 21 it was made available to...
Latin America:
Roku adds OTT PlayKids to its platform
Roku has announced that it has added Brazilian streaming service PlayKids to its platform. Now the kids-focused OTT is available through Roku in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru. Users may...
Latin America:
HBO Go to be sold through Mercado Libre
HBO Latin America has announced that HBO Go, its SVOD streaming service, will be sold through e-commerce platform Mercado Libre in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil (in the latter country the spelling is Mercado Livre). The agreement between both companies will make it...
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Latin America:
Netflix increases its subscriber base by 5% in Q2 and reaches 36 million
According to the latest financial reports published by the company, Netflix totaled 36.07 million users in Latin America as of the end of the second quarter of 2020, which means that quarterly growth was 5.1%. In Latin America, the company’s revenue during Q2 2020 was...
Argentina:
Unconcluded Disney-Fox merger delays Cabase members’ IPTV service
Cabase (Argentine Internet Chamber) President Ariel Graizer said that many of the chamber’s members throughout Argentina, which are Internet providers (ISPs), have not launched their own IPTV service. The fact that Disney-Fox merger is still unconcluded has resulted...
Latin America:
HBO Max plans to expand into the region country by country
"We are taking a country-by-country approach for Latin America, a territory that presents a large opportunity for the HBO Max bundle," WarnerMedia (AT&T) press team revealed to TAVI Latam, when asked about the expansion strategy of the new OTT in the region. The...
Global:
Black Dragon Capital closes acquisition of Grass Valley
Investment firm Black Dragon Capital has completed the acquisition of Grass Valley, one of the world's leading companies in the development solutions for audiovisual broadcasting and content distribution, according to a press release. Belden Inc. is the former owner...
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Global:
AT&T under pressure to sell DirecTV
U.S. telecommunications company AT&T is facing pressure to sell its satellite TV operator DirecTV. According to Fox Business’ Charlie Gasparino, "AT&T is coming under tremendous shareholder pressure to cut costs." In order to attain that goal, bankers suggest...
Argentina:
Cablevisión to integrate Amazon Prime Video into Flow platform
Argentine Pay TV company Cablevisión (owned by Telecom) is working to add Amazon Prime Video to its Flow platform. The news was disclosed by Telecom CEO Norberto Nobile at IBM Change, a virtual event held on June 25. The launch date has not been set yet. When TAVI...
Argentina:
Amazon to be sued for its new original El Presidente
Relatives of late Julio Humberto Grondona, who held office as President of the Asociación del Fútbol Argentino -AFA- (Argentine Soccer Association) between 1979 and 2014, will sue Amazon for millions in damages in connection with its original series El Presidente,...
