Trends in the AudioVisual Industry

Trends in the AudioVisual Industry
Global:
Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. without Discovery Global
According to an announcement made on December 5, Netflix is to acquire Warner Bros. (WB), the new company that will arise from Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) separation into two units. The transaction, the value of which is USD 82.7 billion...
Global:
Netflix to add MLB games: live streaming of three events available to global audience each season
As part of its bet on live sports, Netflix is to offer Major League Baseball(MLB) games. The streaming platform has been granted broadcast rights to stream three events to the whole world: the season opening match (known as Opening Night), the Home...
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Chile:
Paramount sells Chilevisión to Tomás Yankelevich, Jorge Carey and Edgar Spielmann
Audiovisual entertainment giant Paramount (Skydance) has completed its exit from the Chilean Free-To-Air TV market. As it did a few weeks ago in Argentina when it sold Telefé, the company has just reached an agreement to sell Chilevisión. The purchaser is Vytal Group,...
Latin America:
Anime Onegal shuts down definitively
October was the last month in which Latin American streaming platform Anime Onegai was in operation. The OTT’s catalog included only Japanese content, especially anime. The service debuted in 2020 and, after a prolonged open beta phase, its final version was launched...
Argentina:
Paramount sells Telefé to Gustavo Scaglione
Argentine Free-to-Air TV channel Telefé officially announced on October 23 that US audiovisual giant Paramount had sold 100% of Telefé assets to Argentine media businessman Gustavo Scaglione. Scaglione himself had preannounced the transaction on October 1 during an...
Mexico:
Fox Corporation launches Fox One in Mexico as its new sports streaming service
Fox Corporation launched its new subscription-based sports streaming platform in the Mexican market on October 20. The media giant decided to call it Fox One, the brand it uses in the United States for the OTT that encompasses all the linear channels owned by the...
Latin America:
Paramount to shut down pay TV channels in Brazil and to reduce channel portfolio in Spanish-speaking Latin America
Paramount (Skydance) has made a drastic decision in Latin America, which has been unofficially confirmed by TAVI Latam with company sources. The audiovisual giant has decided to withdraw from the Brazilian Pay TV market by the end of 2025, since all the channels...
Mexico:
Formula 1 revokes Fox Sports’ broadcast rights to grant them to Televisa’s Sky Sports
Last weekend, when Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix took place, marked a major shift as regards the broadcasting of the world’s most important car racing category in Mexico. Fox Sports México (Grupo Lauman), which was the holder of the rights, aired neither the practice...
Latin America:
Hulu to debut October 8 in Latin America in place of Star on Disney+
Walt Disney Company’s Hulu brand is to make its debut in Latin America on October 8 and will replace Star as a section within its streaming service Disney+. The change, which was preannounced in August 2025, is part of the company’s plan to transform Hulu into...
Global:
Netflix interested in acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery
Streaming platform Netflix intends to bid for the acquisition of audiovisual giant Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The news was reported by journalist Dylan Byres on Puck News, a US digital media outlet, a few days after it came to light that Paramount (Skydance) was...
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Latin America:
Mercado Libre to launch Mercado Play, its own streaming platform
According to information resulting from investigative work conducted by TAVI Latam, Argentine e-commerce leader Mercado Libre is running tests prior to the launch of its own streaming service, which will be called Mercado Play. It is already possible for some users to...
Latin America:
Fox channels to be renamed as Star as from February 2021
The Walt Disney Company has officially announced that as from February 2021 Fox channels’ names will be changed so that they include the Star brand in Latin America. TAVI Latam reported the news some weeks ago in an exclusive, but company sources said that the date...
Latin America:
Disney confirms launch of Espn 4 to replace Fox Sports
The Walt Disney Company press team has confirmed to TAVI Latam that as from December 1 a new Pay TV sports channel called Espn 4 will replace Fox Sports throughout the Spanish-speaking Latin American region, with the only exceptions of Mexico and Argentina. TAVI Latam...
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