by Gustavo Hernández | Nov 27, 2020 | Audiovisual Market in General
According to Android TV Guide website, DirecTV (Satellite TV company owned by AT&T) has already got Google certification for a new set-top-box decoder that will use Android TV 10 update as its operating system. The device is to be used for OTT service DirecTV Go...
Venezuela:
Recently acquired DirecTV operation extends free period one month
by Virginia Anziano | Nov 16, 2020 | Pay TV
SimpleTV, the Venezuelan Satellite TV operation formerly owned by DirecTV, has announced that its free period will extend one further month, until December 14. Scale Capital, the company that has acquired DirecTV Venezuela, had initially reached an agreement with...
Latin America:
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...
Mexico:
Televisa discloses agreement with Disney to add Disney+ to Izzi service
by Hernán Amaya | Oct 27, 2020 | Audiovisual Market in General
Mexican media and telecommunications company Televisa has announced that its operator Izzi will offer Disney+ as an “additional service”. The new streaming platform will be launched in Latin America on November 17. The news was disclosed on October 23,...
Latin America:
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...