Trends in the AudioVisual Industry

Trends in the AudioVisual Industry
Uruguay:
DirecTV creates premium pack to air Uruguay’s soccer league, offers it to customers and negotiates agreements with other operators
After having acquired Pay TV broadcast rights for Uruguay’s soccer championship through a tender process held in December 2025, DirecTV (Waiken ILW, Grupo Werthein) designed a premium pack to air the tournament live. Called DSports Uruguay Premium,...
Global:
Disney to introduce vertical-format content
In a showcase made at CES (Customer Electronics Show), an event held in Las Vegas, USA, from January 5 thru January 9, The Walt Disney Company announced that its streaming platform Disney+ will offer vertical content in the near future. The...
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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 (including debt), will make...
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 Run Derby (a...
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...
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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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