by Hernán Amaya | Jan 28, 2021 | Pay TV
According to the latest financial reports published by telecommunications company AT&T this week, DirectTV has got net positive adds for the second quarter in a row in Latin America, which had never happened since AT&T became the owner of the satellite TV...
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Warner Bros. confirms simultaneous theater-streaming release of all 2021 movies in U.S.
by Hernán Amaya | Dec 3, 2020 | Audiovisual Market in General
Warner Bros. (WarnerMedia) has announced that all the movies it will release in 2021 in the United States will be put on HBO Max, the company’s subscription streaming service, at the same time as they premiere in theaters. Some weeks ago, the company reported that it...
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Roku offers free DirecTV Go and Globoplay subscriptions to people buying its devices
by Hernán Amaya | Nov 11, 2020 | OTT / VOD
Roku has launched two new promotions in Latin America, available to people who buy one of its devices In Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru, the benefit includes streaming Pay TV service DirecTV Go (AT&T) and HBO premium package for one month free of charge. In...
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Sony close to acquiring Crunchyroll from AT&T
by Gustavo Hernández | Nov 2, 2020 | OTT / VOD
Japanese company Sony has reached the final stage previous to the close of the deal for the acquisition of anime OTT platform Crunchyroll, which is currently under the control of Otter Media, a subsidiary of WarnerMedia which, in turn, is owned by AT&T. The...
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DirecTV increases subscriber count in Q3
by Hernán Amaya | Oct 22, 2020 | Pay TV
AT&T’s Vrio division, which controls Satellite TV operators DirecTV (in South America and some Caribbean countries) and Sky (in Brazil), had increased its subscriber count by the end of the third quarter 2020. Vrio had 10.89 million users as of September 30, 229...