Pay TV
Brazil:
Disney to shut down all Pay TV channels except sports-related ones in Brazilian market
The Walt Disney Company has decided to shut down all its Pay TV channels in the Brazilian territory, with the exception of sports-related channels, which operate under the umbrela brand Espn. The news was reported by some Brazilian specialized...
Global:
DirecTV enters into agreement to acquire Dish in USA and Puerto Rico, with both Satellite TV giants to operate jointly
On September 30, two companies that had been flirting with the idea of merger for over ten years announced they had finally entered into an agreement. In the United States and Puerto Rico, Satellite TV giant DirecTV is to acquire Dish, also an...
Mexico:
Fox Corp. to acquire Fox Sports México from Grupo Lauman
On June 21, Mexico’s Federal Institute of Telecommunications (IFT) unexpectedly issued a resolution authorizing Fox Corporation (Fox Corp.) to acquire all the assets belonging to Fox Sports México, a sports channels network run by Grupo Lauman,...
Chile:
ClaroVTR sells its Satellite TV business to TuVes
Chilean operator ClaroVTR has sold its Satellite TV business to TuVes, a Latin American wholesale and retail Satellite TV provider. The merger between VTR, owned by Liberty Latin America, and Claro Chile, owned by América Móvil, was approved in...
Brazil:
Sky backs out of deal to acquire Oi’s Satellite TV postpaid customer base
In a document submitted to the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) last week, it was informed that Satellite TV (DTH) operator Sky (Vrio, Grupo Werthein) had decided to cancel the agreement to acquire the postpaid customer base of...
México:
Sky launches Sky+, its streaming Pay TV service
On October 2, Mexican Satellite TV operator Sky (Televisa and AT&T) announced the launch of its new product: Sky+ (Sky Más), a subscription-based Pay TV service delivered via OTT including a set-top-box and a streaming player that must be...
Latin America:
TV Azteca boosts its Pay TV offering and launches new sports channel
At a press event that took place on June 28, Mexican audiovisual company TV Azteca announced the overhauling of its Pay TV package, including the launch of a new sports channel to be called Azteca Deportes Network. In addition to the introduction...
Peru:
Movistar trying new IPTV service
Telefónica is close to launching IPTV in the Peruvian market. The telecommunications company’s local subsidiary, Movistar, is conducting trials for the new Pay TV service, which will operate on its new fixed fiber to the home (FTTH) network,...
México:
Totalplay and Anime Onegai por Animeka join to offer Japanese live action movies in TVOD
Through an innovative partnership, Mexican telecommunications operator Totalplay, owned by Grupo Salinas, and streaming platform Anime Onegai por Animeka, specialized in Japanese content, are now offering live action movies. The titles are...
Mexico:
Sky to change brand of its prepaid service VeTV
Mexican Satellite TV operator Sky, owned by Televisa and AT&T, has informed TAVI Latam that it will cease to use the VeTV brand for its prepaid service and will replace it with the Sky Prepago brand. Users have already been notified of the...
Venezuela:
Telefónica to cancel Movistar Satellite TV service
According to information released by telecommunications giant Telefónica on July 1, Movistar is to discontinue its satellite TV service (DTH) in Venezuela by the end of 2022. As a result, the withdrawal of the company from the Venezuelan DTH market...
Argentina:
DirecTV grants brand sublicense to Alpha Media to launch D-Sports Radio
Satellite TV and streaming TV company DirecTV has entered into an agreement with Grupo Alpha Media to launch in Argentina a new radio station entirely devoted to sports, which will be called D-Sports Radio and will start broadcasting next week....
Costa Rica:
Cabletica removes eight Disney channels and adds HBO premium channels to basic plan
Costa Rican telecommunications operator Cabletica, owned by Liberty Latin America, has informed its pay TV customers that on July 1 it will remove eight channels owned by The Walt Disney Company from its line-up and will replace them with inclusion...
Brazil:
Telefónica cancels Vivo’s Satellite TV service
Brazilian telecommunications operator Vivo, owned by Telefónica, has notified its Satellite TV customers that it will cease to provide the service in December 2022. The last day of the current year is the expiration date of the agreement between...
Uruguay:
Court judgment allows Claro to offer Pay TV
A Uruguayan court has set aside a resolution issued in 2017 that precluded telecommunications company Claro (América Móvil) from providing Pay TV services, in this particular case Satellite TV (DTH). As a result, Claro is now allowed to offer the...
Brazil:
Oi sells Satellite TV postpaid subscriber base to Sky
Brazilian telecommunications company Oi has entered into an agreement to sell its Satellite TV postpaid customer base to DTH operator Sky Brasil (Grupo Werthein). Oi’s disinvestment plan also included the sale of its mobile phone operation. The...
Mexico:
Izzi Android TV set-top-boxes exceed one million
According to information obtained from Izzi (Televisa) by TAVI Latam, the number of set-top-boxes using Android TV (Google) as their operating system that have been installed by the Mexican telecommunications company’s Pay TV service has already...
Argentina:
Telecentro launches new 4K Alexa built-in STB with surround sound
Argentine telecommunications operator Telecentro has launched a new set-top-box for its Pay TV service, whose main appeal is that Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled virtual assistant is built into it. Called T1, the device makes it possible to view...
Argentina:
DirecTV launches DirecTV Go Box in Argentine market
DirecTV has already begun to introduce its streaming set top box DirecTV Go Box into new markets, a decision announced to TAVI Latam by the company’s OTT Vice President Gustavo Fonseca some time ago. After having introduced it in Chile in late...
Chile:
Entel discontinues sale of Satellite TV service
As reported by Chilean telecommunications operator Entel, the company ceased to sell its Satellite TV service (DTH) to new subscribers in the third quarter of 2021. Existing users will continue receiving the service for the time being. Entel...
Mexico:
IFT to grant Pay TV license to Telmex-Claro in December
As reported by local newspapers El Financiero and El Economista, Mexico’s National Telecommunications Institute (IFT) is about to grant América Móvil, the parent company controlling Telmex and Claro, a license to provide Pay TV services. According...
Latin America:
Grupo Werthein closes transaction and takes over DirecTV
On November 15, Argentina’s Grupo Werthein issued a press release to announce the close of the transaction for the acquisition of 100% of the capital stock of Vrio division from AT&T. Vrio manages DirecTV Latin America, Sky Brasil and DirecTV...
Latin America:
On the eve of takeover by Werthein, DirecTV posts subscriber loss for three quarters in a row
DirecTV Latin American unit, managed by Vrio division, posted a decrease in its subscriber count for three quarters in a row, according to telecommunications company AT&T Q3 2021 financial results. Grupo Werthein is to become the owner of Vrio...
Cuba:
Government approves launch of first home Pay TV service in the country
Last week, Cuba’s government issued Executive Order 35/21, which regulates telecommunications, information and communication technologies and use of the radio spectrum. The above-mentioned order includes the approval of the first home Pay TV...
Latin America:
Star Premium no longer offered by some operators
Star Premium, The Walt Disney Company’s series and movies pack, is no longer offered by some Pay TV operators in Latin America, which has a direct connection with the upcoming launch of the company’s new streaming platform Star+, scheduled for...
Latin America:
AT&T sells DirecTV Latin American operations to Grupo Werthein
On July 21 telecommunications multinational AT&T issued a press release in which it announced the sale of DirecTV assets in Latin America. The purchaser is Grupo Wethein, an Argentine company doing business in various markets such as insurance,...
Latin America:
Claro launches IPTV in Central America
Telecommunications company Claro (América Móvil) is developing an aggressive plan in Latin America for investment in fiber optic networks (FTTH) and launch of IPTV services operating on such networks. Within the plan, the company has begun to offer...
Chile:
VTR launches HubTV through a new IPTV service
VTR, a Chilean telecommunications company owned by Liberty Latin America, has begun to offer its new advanced television service HubTV. At the moment, it is only being provided over IPTV, through the new fiber optic network being deployed by the...
Chile:
Claro starts offering IPTV in the Chilean market
Telecommunications operator Claro, owned by América Móvil, has started offering an IPTV service, for which purpose it avails itself of its already existing fiber optic network in Chile. “In December we launched our IPTV product, which enhances the...
Panama:
Cable & Wireless ceases Satellite TV service
Panamanian operator Cable & Wireless, owned by Liberty Latin America and the Panamanian State, has decided to discontinue its pre-paid Satellite TV service, called +TV Digital Prepago. The company launched the DTH in 2014 through Telefónica...
Global:
AT&T seeks to sell DirecTV in Latin America and closes deal with TPG in USA
AT&T CEO John Stankey has announced that the company is exploring options for the sale of DirecTV operations in Latin America. The announcement was made on February 25 at an investor call held a few hours after the telecommunications giant...
Latin America:
First time AT&T’s DirecTV has increased subscriber count for second quarter in a row
According to the latest financial reports published by telecommunications company AT&T this week, DirectTV has got net positive adds for the second quarter in a row in Latin America, which had never happened since AT&T became the owner of...
El Salvador:
Telefónica ceases Satellite TV service
In El Salvador, Telefónica has notified its customers that on April 30 it will cease to provide its Satelllite TV service (DTH), which currently operates under the Movistar brand. In this way, the telecommunications company ceases its Pay TV...
Argentina:
Express launches daily premium packages: HBO, Fox Premium, Hot Pack and Pack Fútbol
Argentine Pay TV operator Express has launched a new product called Packs Por Día (Daily Packs), which is an innovative initiative consisting in giving the user the option to sign up to any of its premium packages only for one day. Express premium...
Venezuela:
Recently acquired DirecTV operation extends free period one month
SimpleTV, the Venezuelan Satellite TV operation formerly owned by DirecTV, has announced that its free period will extend one further month, until December 14. Scale Capital, the company that has acquired DirecTV Venezuela, had initially reached an...
Latin America:
DirecTV increases subscriber count in Q3
AT&T’s Vrio division, which controls Satellite TV operators DirecTV (in South America and some Caribbean countries) and Sky (in Brazil), had increased its subscriber count by the end of the third quarter 2020. Vrio had 10.89 million users as of...
Venezuela: First conflict between Conatel and SimpleTV, formerly DirecTV Venezuela
Venezuela’s Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has rejected the price scheme submitted by investment company Scale Capital, which has recently acquired DirecTV Venezuela. Scale Capital is supplying the Satellite TV service to existing DirecTV...
Venezuela: DirecTV to become SimpleTV
Satellite TV operator DirecTV Venezuela, which has recently been acquired by investment firm Scale Capital, will change its name to SimpleTV. The new brand name has been appearing on the screens of the DTH’s users during the last few days,...
Global:
AT&T puts DirecTV up for auction
According to the New York Post, telecommunications company AT&T is determined to push forward with the sale of its Satellite TV operator DirecTV. That is the reason why it has invited a few suitors into the second round of the auction of the...
Cuba:
Government considers launching first Pay TV service for households
Cuba’s Ministry of Economy and Planning has published a document in which it describes the socioeconomic strategy it will adopt to boost the economy and to tackle the global crisis caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The strategy...
Global:
AT&T in search of buyers for DirecTV: There are two suitors
According to The Wall Street Journal, telecommunications giant AT&T has already held meetings with companies that are interested in acquiring Satellite TV operator (DTH) DirecTV. The U.S. newspaper has mentioned two suitors: Apollo Global...
Brazil:
Pay TV subscriber count decreases by almost 10% in one year
The number of Pay TV subscribers in Brazil was 15.18 million as of the end of Q2 2020, which shows a 9.8% drop compared with Q2 2019 , when the total count was 16.83 million. In comparison with Q1 2020, the decrease was 1.1%, following a downtrend...
Brazil:
BluTV: A new Satellite TV operator
There is a new Satellite TV service in Brazil. Its name is BluTV (www.blutv.com.br) and it has been operating since August 9. Based in Uberlandia (Minas Gerais State), it is owned by 1Sat Telecomunicações. The service currently reaches 53...
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...
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...
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...
Mexico:
There is already a solid buyer for Fox Sports México
According to information published by Mexican website Mediotiempo, there is already a solid buyer for Fox Sports México. The Walt Disney Company is required to divest itself of Fox Sports México in order that the Federal Telecommunications...
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...
Venezuela:
DirecTV withdraws from Venezuelan market
U.S. telecommunications company AT&T has resolved that its satellite TV operator DirecTV cease operations in Venezuela. AT&T announced the decision, effective immediately, through a press release issued on May 19. "The U.S. government’s...
Latin America:
DirecTV loses subscribers and ends Q1 2020 with 13.2 million
Satellite TV operator DirecTV ended the first quarter of the current year with 13.2 million users in Latin America, according to financial reports recently published by AT&T. This figure shows a 0.86% decline (114,000 users) in comparison with...
Brazil:
In light of the spread of Coronavirus, Pay TV has adopted the strategy of offering channels at no additional cost
In view of the measures and recommendations issued by the Brazilian government regarding the rapid spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide, the local Pay TV industry is offering users access to channels at no additional cost. The aim is to...
Mexico:
IFT considers imposing penalties on Pay TV channels for exceeding advertising time limit
The Mexican Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) has confirmed that Mexican Pay TV channels are exceeding the advertising time limit, which is six minutes per hour. Therefore, the regulatory authority might impose a penalty, which may range...
Colombia:
Premium channel Win Sports+ reaches 200 thousand subs after its first month
Win Sports+, a Colombian premium sports channel owned by RCN and AT&T, disclosed its figures after its first month in business through a press release. As of the end of February, the number of subscribers was 200 thousand. Win Sports+...
Brazil:
América Móvil is ceasing to use Net so that Claro may become its single brand
Since it decided to unify its two Pay TV Brazilian operations in mid 2019, América Móvil has been integrating Claro into the Net service. According to information released by local site TudoCelular, the telecommunications company has just renewed...
Brazil:
Claro and Oi discourage Satellite TV postpaid services subscription
Claro (América Móvil) and Oi have adopted a new policy regarding the subscription fee for their Satellite TV (DTH) postpaid services. Both Brazilian telecommunications companies have set hefty prices for new subscribers, which is why it is...
Brazil:
Claro is reported to have discontinued the sale of its Satellite TV service
It has been reported that Claro, a Brazilian Pay TV operator owned by América Móvil, has not been selling its Satellite TV service (DTH) to new customers since January 8. The company has not made any public announcement. The source of the news is...
Brazil:
Pay TV loses over 1.5 million subscribers in 2019
According to the latest data released by Brazil Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), the loss of Pay TV subscribers within the Brazilian market as from the beginning of the year had already exceeded 1.5 million by the end of November 2019. The...
Latin America:
Discovery is the new owner of Golf Channel Latin America
Discovery has acquired Latin American Golf company, which operates Golf Channel Latin America, a Pay TV channel. Its former owners were Simple Networks LLC and Fornaluz Productions S.A., an affiliate of Inversiones Bahia. Discovery’s bet on golf is...
Latin America:
Michael Bowling replaces Manuel De Abelleyra as President of DirecTV Latin America
Michael Bowling has been appointed President of DirecTV Latin America and will report to Melissa Arnoldi, Vrio CEO (Vrio is owned by AT&T and Direct TV Latin America is under its control), as announced by the company through a press release....
Argentina:
ATVC holds its 27th award ceremony to keep fostering and stimulating the industry
The Argentine Cable Television Association (ATVC) gave awards for the best productions in the Argentine Pay TV industry at its 27th award ceremony, held on the night of December 4. “These awards make it possible for us to foster and stimulate the...
Bahamas:
Cable Bahamas renews its digital Pay TV service with ActiveVideo
Pay TV operator Cable Bahamas agreed with the technology company ActiveVideo to renew its digital Pay TV service, where the decoder functions will be virtualized in the cloud. Thus, it will launch a new user interface that will make it possible to...
Global:
Nagra and Kaon introduce a new Android TV base solution for Pay TV operators
The technology companies Nagra and Kaon agreed to work together to launch a new Android TV streaming solution for Pay TV operators. "It is designed to accelerate time to market of Android TV-based services," told the Senior Vice President and Head...
Chile:
Chilean Pay TV ends June 2019 with 3.31 million subs, down for fourth consecutive quarter
The Chilean Telecommunications Agency (Subtel) has reported that as at the end of June 2019 the Chilean Pay TV market has 3.31 million customers. Sub count has been on the decline for four straight quarters. It peaked at 3.36 million in June 2018....
Mexico:
Federal Telecommunications Institute confirms Televisa’s dominant Pay TV market position
As it was pre-announced by the local press some days ago, IFT’s Research Unit has ascertained that Televisa group wields substantial power within the Pay TV market in 35 Mexican areas. This results from research conducted after Televisa’s purchase...
Brazil:
CNN Brasil enters signs distribution agreement with América Móvil to be included in Net and Claro lineups
News channel CNN Brasil, which is to be launched in early 2020, has signed an agreement with América Móvil group in order to be included in the lineups of Pay TV operators Net and Claro. The owner of CNN, Turner company, has granted a licence for...
Uruguay:
Cablevisión launchs Flow STB for its subs and Antel broadband users
Uruguay Pay TV company Cablevisión is offering decoders for its Flow service, which a short time ago was available only through a mobile app. In addition, the company has reached an agreement with state-run telecom operator Antel so that Antel...
Argentina:
Telecom and DirecTV CEOs in Argentina to discuss the future of the industry at Jornadas Internacionales 2019
The Argentine Cable TV Association (ATVC in Spanish) and the Producers and Programmers of Audiovisual Channels Chamber (Cappsa in Spanish) have confirmed that Telecom Argentina and DirecTV Argentina top executives Carlos Moltini and Manuel...
Chile:
AMC sues VTR for decision to discontinue distribution of AMC’s channels
The programmer AMC Networks initiated a lawsuit in the Free Competition Defense Court (TDLC in Spanish) against the Chilean telecommunications operator VTR for removing AMC's channels from VTR's line-up, a fact that occurred earlier this year. The...
Brazil:
Pay TV market kept declining in July and reached 2013 levels
Brazil Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has reported that in July 2019 the number of Pay TV subscribers decreased to 16.5 million. Similar numbers can be found for January 2013, when the market was growing steadily. Within this period the number...
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