by Hernán Amaya | Sep 26, 2019 | Telecommunications
During a panel session entitled Challenges Faced by the Industry in the Digital Era held on the first day of Jornadas Internacionales 2019, Telecom CEO Carlos Moltini asserted that ARPUs (Editor’s note: Average Revenue per User) in dollars make it impossible to...
Argentina:
Argentine Pay TV complains about tax burden asymetry compared with OTTs
by Hernán Amaya | Sep 25, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
The Argentine Cable TV Association (ATVC) has requested that its members “be released from tax burdens, high fees and excessive bureaucratic control” owing to the fact that they are “at a disadvantage in comparison with the newcomers to this market” (Editor’s note: a...
Brazil:
Amazonian state-run channel stops transponding TV Cultura programming and teams up with TV Brasil
by Hernán Amaya | Sep 25, 2019 | Free To Air Tv
The Amazonian state-run channel (based in Manaus City) has ceased to repeat Sao Paulo TV Cultura TV station programming and has replaced it with federal state-run channel TV Brasil. As a result of this new strategy, the Amazonian channel is no longer known as TV...
Global:
Netflix’s CEO predicts tough competition due to OTTs new releases
by Hernán Amaya | Sep 23, 2019 | OTT / VOD
Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings said that the market will be a “tough competition” since next November, when several companies launch their own OTT platforms. This was at the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge, England. “While we have...
Argentina:
Movistar Play has introduced Amazon Prime Video as a package
by Hernán Amaya | Sep 19, 2019 | OTT / VOD
OTT Movistar Play, a service offered by telecom company Movistar (Telefónica Group), has added to its platform the option to get Amazon Prime Video as a package. As part of a launch promotion, the three first months will be free and there will be a 50% rebate for the...