by Virginia Anziano | Dec 12, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
The Pirate Bay is testing a new system through which users can stream the content instead of downloading them. This torrent website is one of the most important pirate audiovisual content sites worldwide. Over the past few days, The Pirate Bay has been adding a...
Mexico:
Izzi accused of interfering with TV Azteca’s signal during Andy Ruiz Jr.’s fight
by Virginia Anziano | Dec 10, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
Journalists at TV Azteca and many Izzi users reported on social networks that the Mexican Pay TV company owned by Televisa had interfered intentionally with Azteca Siete during the live broadcast of the fight between Andy Ruiz Jr., a U.S. born boxer of Mexican...
Global:
CBS and Viacom completed the merger and launched the new ViacomCBS
by Gustavo Hernández | Dec 5, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
As it had been announced, CBS Corporation and Viacom Inc. completed the merger on December 4. The combined company, which is renamed ViacomCBS, creates a media group with global scale, including leadership positions in markets across the United States, Europe, Latin...
Martinique:
France TV Outre-Mer installs Pebble Beach automation solution
by Gustavo Hernández | Nov 14, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
The channel France TV Outre-Mer (the overseas territory division of France TV) of Martinique installed a Pebble Beach automation control system, called Marina Lite. The local TV station in this island features a news studio and an independent production team. The...
Latin America:
Warner Media acquires minority interest from Ole Communications and is now HBO’s sole owner
by Hernán Amaya | Oct 28, 2019 | Audiovisual Market in General
WarnerMedia, a company owned by AT&T, has reached an agreement to acquire the minority interest in HBO Ole Partners so far held by Ole Communications in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries and thus will become the sole owner of HBO joint venture. In this...
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...