Trends in the AudioVisual Industry
Trends in the AudioVisual Industry
Global:
Netflix plans to launch live streaming
Netflix executives are exploring a new field. According to US website Deadline, the streaming platform plans to add live shows to its content. The information published on the specialized website is that live content in development includes...
Global:
Netflix intends to introduce an ad-supported, lower-priced tier by the end of 2022
According to The New York Times, Netflix executives told the staff that they had set the goal of implementing the plan to launch an ad-supported, lower-priced tier by the end of the current year, more specifically in the last quarter. Just two...
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Global:
TelevisaUnivision acquires US Spanish-language streaming service Pantaya
On May 9, new audiovisual giant TelevisaUnivision announced the acquisition of Spanish-language streaming service Pantaya, currently available in the United States and Puerto Rico, wholly owned by Hemisphere Media Group. According to TelevisaUnivision’s release, the...

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 above mentioned...
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 news was disclosed to...
Argentina:
Government approves Disney’s disinvestment plan and Mediapro becomes Fox Sports Argentina’s owner
By means of a resolution issued on April 27 by the Domestic Trade Department, the Argentine government approved the disinvestment plan submitted by The Walt Disney Company, which makes it possible for the company to acquire 21st Century Fox and to close the Disney-Fox...
Global:
CNN+ to cease operations April 30, just one month after launch
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the new audiovisual giant, has decided to shut down its news streaming platform CNN+, which was launched on March 29 in the United States with a view to international expansion. The OTT service will continue in operation only until the...
Global:
Having lost subscribers worldwide for the first time in ten years, Netflix considers lower cost, ad-supported plan
For the first time in the last ten years, Netflix has reported a quarterly drop in its subscriber base on a global scale. The streaming platform lost 200,000 users in the first quarter of 2022, with subscriber count totaling 221.64 million. Shortly afterwards, Co-CEO...
Latin America:
DirecTV Go launches new own sports channel in Brazil and Mexico
On April 16, Grupo Werthein is to launch its new own sports channel in Brazil and Mexico. Called DSports, the new channel will be available on DirecTV Go, the company’s streaming Pay TV service, and will air PFL fights (Professional Fighters League, a mixed martial...
Global:
FIFA launches its own streaming platform
The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international soccer governing entity, is entering the streaming market with the launch of FIFA+ (FIFA Plus) on April 12. The Federation seeks to take advantage of widespread interest in Qatar World Cup...
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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...
Venezuela:
SimpleTV launches HBO premium pack on May 3
According to information published by Venezuelan specialist reporter Edgar Rincón Molina, Satellite TV operator SimpleTV (Scale Capital) will be offering HBO (WarnerMedia) premium pack as from May 3. Some time ago, company officials said that SimpleTV was about to add...

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